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Our mission is to improve the White Shepherd (UKC) and White Swiss Shepherd (FCI) Breed*
Our goal is to produce healthy dogs in body and mind who can live long disease free lives. They will be great companions, service or competition dogs. We focus on health and temperament. We breed only healthy dogs who can pass along worthy traits, such as a solid temperament, correct conformation and excellent pigment. All our reproductive dogs are DNA tested, non-carriers of any detectable diseases. Only those dogs that pass the health and temperament test are introduced into our breeding program. What sets us apart from other breeders is that we breed dogs that have no common ancestors in at least 4 generations. We also show our White Swiss Shepherds to FCI Judges to attest that we breed dogs with the correct conformation and honor the standard.
My love for this breed was stimulated by my mentor, Scarlett Sanders to her I owe much of my knowledge, hands on experience and a very successful first breeding in December 2016 between Lusty and Lumi.
Foxhunt Lust for Life is our first love, he inspired us to educate ourselves about the evolution of this breed. It is indeed an evolution since the White Shepherd was not meant to be a breed of its own at the origin. It is because of politics and the Parent Club’s definition of beauty that the White Shepherds became outcast from their original breed. You may ask, what is the original breed? It is the German Shepherd dog. To tell you about the origin of the German Shepherd is beyond the scope of this introduction. I will only point out that the German Shepherd creator, a German Cavalry Captain, Rittmeister von Stephanitz, bought what he felt was the benchmark prototype of what a working dog should be: intelligent, strong with endurance, loyal and beautiful. Around 1899, he found all these prerequisites in Horand von Grafrath who he renamed Hektor von Schwaben. Stephanitz declared him the very first German Shepherd dog. He then founded the Society for the German Shepherd Dog, or in German, Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde. He then proceeded to mate Hektor with other “worthy” mates. Among them there were white dogs. This picture was taken from his book Der Deutsche Schäferhund in Wort und Bild 1911 edition.
The writing under the picture literally translates to: “long coated stock German shepherd dog”. It also happens to be white. I believe this is how the white, long coat gene of German Shepherd dogs was introduced into the German Shepherd breed. Through the decades the German Dog Club in Germany and still today, American Kennel Club (AKC) disqualifies the White color coat from conformation and beauty competition. It is thanks to the work of a selected group of people in the USA, Canada and Europe that the White coated German dog survives today. In Europe it has become a different breed. The Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) or International Canine Federation identifies it as the White Swiss Shepherd, Berger Blanc Suisse (BBS). In the US, as far as AKC is concerned, these dogs are still white coated German Shepherds. On the other hand UKC and AWSA have recognized them as a separate breed, but in the US they are still called simply White Shepherds.
*Since the USA is not an FCI country, if a BBS is imported in the USA it can be registered as a White Shepherd with UKC and AWSA or as a German Shepherd with AKC. The history is fascinating and I will tell in greater details in other parts. At the moment I invite you to get to know us and our website.
