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After looking for more than three years I may have found a GSD breeder I like in France!

I am looking for a breeder who breeds for temperament and suitability as a family dog, has a small number of dogs and litters to offer each individual attention, keeps litters in the family home and does all health screening including for degenerative myelopathy (this has proven to be a huge problem as almost no one tests for this in France).

I have my name down provisionally for a litter in spring 2017 or thereabouts (can't wait but MiniBoo2 is an 18mo terror at the moment and it should be easier next year).

Do you have any thoughts on their bitches and their pedigree? I am afraid this is something I know little of. Looks are not important, just temperament and health.

http://www.elevagebergerallemand-heritiersdenoyawen.fr/#Nos_chiennes.B
 
In haste, all show lines in their females and mostly the 'high line'. Lots of Vegas in the pedigrees and line breeding, which is unsurprising given that he was bred in France and was world Sieger twice - he was used a lot.
A lot of show GSDs in the UK would have the same dogs in their lines.
 
It is great fun and immensely rewarding at best, expensive and stressful at worst, like a lot of breeds I am sure.

It really depends on her genetics/breeding, her early experience etc. I've had everything from dope on a rope/dependable as anything/childminder type, to proper 100mph full on, can't leave them alone for a moment type.

I don't hold with 'it's how you rear them'...if weak nerves/dog aggression/human aggression/allergies/hip and elbow problems are in the lines, they'll come out. The behavioural traits can be managed, trained around and masked. Health problems not so much.

I'd be asking why she is being rehomed and if you could find out a little about her pedigree, that would be helpful in how you go on with her forward training.
Young GSDs do tend to be a bit rude and push their luck a bit with other dogs. That's a generalisation I know and I got offended when I first saw it suggested ;) but they can be bolshy youngsters.
 
CorvusCorax said:
It is great fun and immensely rewarding at best, expensive and stressful at worst, like a lot of breeds I am sure.

It really depends on her genetics/breeding, her early experience etc. I've had everything from dope on a rope/dependable as anything/childminder type, to proper 100mph full on, can't leave them alone for a moment type.

I don't hold with 'it's how you rear them'...if weak nerves/dog aggression/human aggression/allergies/hip and elbow problems are in the lines, they'll come out. The behavioural traits can be managed, trained around and masked. Health problems not so much.

I'd be asking why she is being rehomed and if you could find out a little about her pedigree, that would be helpful in how you go on with her forward training.
Young GSDs do tend to be a bit rude and push their luck a bit with other dogs. That's a generalisation I know and I got offended when I first saw it suggested ;) but they can be bolshy youngsters.
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Thank you for this appreciated
 
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