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Originally Posted by Juta
In all reality , if someone is telling you that German lines are bigger, he/she is lying.
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This is what MANY people who obviously don't have any knowledge of GSDs say.
That is exactly what I was told over and over, so when I first started looking for a GSD, I was looking for a "big" one, but most important to me were (and
are) health and intelligence. I think a lot of people will agree that you often can guage a lot of a dog's intelligence by their eyes and expression. When I looked at the XL GSD breeders, I didn't see that in their face, and when the personality description was, "Happy, friendly, easy-going,
mellow," my face went....
"That's not right."
With only a TEENY bit of research, I discovered the truth about the dumb things I've been told all of these years, and started obsessively researching day and night about working lines, show lines, West German, East German, Czech, etc..
I'm obviously still learning though, haha. I've owned a couple of purebreds and a few shepherd mixes, and I had just never researched or looked into the breed more than my own experience, and the similar experiences of people I knew. Although we have considered other breeds of dogs (american bulldog, boerboel, rottweiler, hound), we always agree that GSDs are our favorite, and when it's finally time to get another dog (assuming we haven't already taken in a stray, haha), we usually always go for a GSD or mix. I would love to experiment with other breeds, but we just can't miss the opportunity to own another german shepherd. (Vincent is the exception.)
I've never owned a real working line GSD, and he's only a three month old pup, and already very different from any dog I've ever had. We've never done real training of any sort either, so this is all new to us. I'm really looking forward to this experience, and learning together. Really, it's about time. Ha.