[midnight804]

long coats and working lines?

good morning all,
I was in the park earlier with my dog and we saw a very awesome looking long coat gsd. I would say it was a long coat sable (I didn't feel for an undercoat so I don't know if it was lc or slc) and in chatting with the owner he said she was out of a kennel that had breed long coats for a long time. He was a Very nice boy and well trained. Calm too. It was nice meeting him because recently my dog and I were charged by agrro golden retriever and I've spent the last few days trying to get him nice and calm around other dogs on his leash again.

From what I gathered the long coat is a simple recessive gene.

Do people breed long coat working lines? I'm not really interested in getting one or anything, but i was wondering if anyone had breed a good working line of dogs that also had the recessive coat lengths?

 

[midnight804]

Re: long coats and working lines?

I thought it was odd when the guy told me his dog was from a "long coat only" kennel. well not odd, but contrary to what I've been told and read about gsd breeding.


Other than the coat length/style a long coats any different from stock coats? This was the first lc I had met in person and he behaved well and was quite mellow, but I didn't notice him being different from any other well trained calm GSD I had met.