West vs. East GSD - Page 1

How do you know what lines your dogs are from? (Western/ Eastern)? Is there any way to tell or research on their pedigree?? If anyone can also give me details on the differnence, as far as tempermant and behavior. I am new to the site, and would greatly appreciate any help or information.

Thank You

 Thank you for the readings Kyle, and suggestions. Greatly appreciated.

Working line is not what I personally studied however this is what I understood about them, I could be mistaken.

In working line when the wall split, West German Shepherds for work were beginning to go away..that is why there aren't many breeders who say the have west german working line, only west german show line which today is one of the most popular in Germany.
East German on the other hand are DDR.

If you want to talk to someone about working line, talk to Hans Prager. He is like the total ambassador of the breed when it comes to working line, he knows absolutely everything..and he is a very good breeder, he actually lives not too far from me..and I have seen some of his dogs before from clients..they are just beautiful with great workability!

Good luck on you studying..

Honestly the way I studied for the showline was looking at pedigrees of breeders. By doing this ( I probably looked at thousands of them), I looked for the ones I kept seeing that people used. I became more and more familiar with the names, and I began to question breeders why they used this particular dog, or how was it an improvement of the breed. If you look around on pedigrees and just seriously take a lot of time to do this, you will see dogs being used, and you will see the popular ones, and you will just become more familiar with them..
Also, again if I am not mistaken, breeders of working line usually mix like DDR with Czech for example so it may not be 100% DDR, or something else..I have seen this before..but there are a lot of pure ones as well.

GOOD LUCK!