The different workinglines of GSD - Page 1

Are there any more workinglines of GSD besides the westgerman,DDR, and the czech ones? The DDR-lines  is more or less gone I guess, at least the system they had that might shaped thier dogs a bit different than the westgerman lines,or?

The czech dogs are much based on older DDR-dogs it seems, but did they also produce a different type of GSD compared to the westgerman, that is breed mainly for SCH many genereations, or are there more similarities than differences between both the former DDR-dogs,westgerman and czechdogs? It would be intressting to know if there are more working GSD-lines, or from a certain country, out there, that also haven´t been breed so much for SCH, more similar to the former DDR or somwhat the Czech dogs. It seems most lines nowadays are based on the westgerman, maybe with a few DDR-dogs i the pedigree, and are also being breed for SCH in many countries, so I guess the general GSD from example belgium,denmark and germany are more or less the same dogs in type and character, they use similar lines, often the westgerman, and also have the same sport and korung as their breedselection.

Linda Shaw's Illustrated GSD Standard has several related breed-types of the GSD.

http://www.shawlein.com/The_Standard/13_Breed_Type/Breed_Types.html

I've had Czech, DDR, and various mixes between the two. There are variences in the different breeds, but not as pronounced as those between West German High (Show) Lines, West German Working Lines, and East German Working Lines. It seems West Germany is the only european country to establish such a dichotomy for aesthetics and divide their dogs into specific types.

Many of the European countries have similar breeds that look like GSDs, but are infact their own lineage. The link above has a few. They're shepherd-ISH, but haven't been bred as much for Schutzhund, never having gained the popularity of the GSD outside their native countries.

Sweden have some lines that have been breed many generations without so much influence of more modern German dogs and also different working and charactertests compared to countries that use SCH and the german korung as the main criteria for breedings. Some example would be,

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/432495.html

And the motherline of this dog,

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/436493.html