Hello.
A friend of mine was working in germany brought back home a gsd couple ( working line, short hair) to homeland Tunisia. after a while they had puppies but they come with white chest and white paws and some just black and tan. he gaved me this gsd puppy i called her stellar .
what I want to know is she a pure breed as my friend told me or she is not pure breed.
( my friend showed me some papers of blood line or something am no expert)
some people even told me that she is not a gsd at all.
I have done some research on google and I read about the white gene .
It's not common for a black and tan to have much white on their chest, usually minimal if at all. Black shepherds more often have a white blaze. I have never seen a purebred with white toes.
I would say no she is not purebred, she also looks very small, how old is she?
I know a purebred GSD with a white sock, and white toes aren't all that rare, especially in German show lines. Didn't stop the owner from showing and breeding him, either. She just dyed the foot with tea before showing!
Also, a very well-known American showline had a large white patch on his chest, and passed it on to many ASL dogs: Proven Hill's Banker of Altana
my only goal from asking if it is purebred or not is that to know if she can be trained as a gsd?
and if she was not a purebred does she still clever like purebred gsd or not? will it behave like a gsd when adult? is it trainable?
I posted my reply late at night, so I forgot to add the most important thing - with that much white on her, I very much doubt your girl is purebred. But if you have no plans to breed her, that's not a problem. She can still be a wonderful dog.
As for her acting like a GSD, I have 2 GSDs, one is a show line, the other a working line. They are very different in their temperaments. The show line is calmer, and less distractable, but has a stubborn streak that makes training a challenge sometimes. The working line is young, very energetic, and tends to get distracted by people/other dogs/ cars, etc. so teaching her to focus on me can be a challenge.
As Dotbat said, you need to train the dog in front of you, and not make assumptions about how she's going to act a certain way due to her breeding.
Today I noticed a tan color coming in instead of the white hair can you see it in photos ? It looks like brown spots on her white hair. Her back paws are almost brown (tan) is the white hair fading ?
Do you mean those three tan spots? Lots of white footed dogs have speckles and is not likely to fill in. She has a lot of "chrome" as we call it in horses. These are pleasing markings in any kind of dog. One thing that might happen, saddle markings might come in, all the pups in my dog's litter were black and tan at first.
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