Remember my brindle question? - Page 1

Well here is the puppy 2 months later and as I thought she is turning out a nice dark sable. 

Nice; is she gonna look like the one in your profile pic? That's sure a nice one, too!

For those wondering, here's a pic of 2 8 mos old GSDs I saw advertised here around May 30th of this year:

She is beautiful. Remindes me of my pup (now almost 2y). Good luck.

Katjo,

these are not GSDs, they are Dutch Shepherds.

Chris

Thanks for the compliments.  She is no kin to the dopg in my avatar--that girl is my Czech girl.  The puppy will be 5 months on the 11th and she is a mi8xture of American, German/DDR worklines. 

Yes thoase aRE definately dutchies.  Another beautiful working dog.

OH-oops-I must have skimmed it too quick and remembered seeing "Shepherds" in it -it had been a while since I read it. My bad! Sorry! {Must admit, for that coloring to be a 'lost' GSD color, I was pretty darned surprised to see it crop up so obvious}

I've never heard of a Dutch Shepherd. What's that? And is it related to the GSD?

Dutch Shepherd is from Holland, and was originally crossed with the Belgian Malinois as a sister breed.  If a Dutch had a fawn color they would call it a malinois, and if a Malinois would have a brindle they would call it a Dutch.   Then,  the Belgian and Dutch finally went their seperate ways.    The Dutch actually has 3 coat types ,  short , long and Rough.    They used to have a medium coat as well.  

 The Belgians originally had three coat types as well as solid black.  But, they decided to break it down to different breeds.    The Short coat is a Malinois,  the Long coat is the Tervern, the Rough coat is the Lakenois, and the Black is the Groenendel  (sp?)

Finding a really good Dutch is much harder than finding a good malinois, because the Gene pool was much smaller for the dutch when they originally seperated from the Malinois.  But, there has been a lot of infusion of malinois , throughout the years to bring the breed to stability, so it is on the rise,  though still a rare breed and is NOT AKC recognized. 

The Dutch Shepherds I have seen are a lot larger than the Malinois. How did they get the size?

Probably because the majority of the working dutchies have infusions of GSD and Mal in their backgrounds.  I believe most of the KNPV Dutchies dont have registration papers - but are really nice working dogs.

~Cate