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[85] [87] A North American study analysing more than 1,000,000 hip and 250,000 elbow scans in dogs over the age of two found the German Shepherd Dog to have a rate of hip and elbow dysplasia to be 18.9% and 17.8% respectively. The German Shepherd had the 8th highest rate of hip dysplasia and 6th highest rate of elbow dysplasia. [88]
The Canadian Kennel Club (or CKC; French: Club canin canadien), founded in 1888 and chartered under the Animal Purebred Act, is one of the national kennel clubs of Canada. It maintains breed registries services for those purebred dogs approved for its control by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , and provides governance for all CKC-approved dog ...
Fred Lanting is a multi-breed American Kennel Club (AKC) judge, United Kennel Club (UKC) all breed judge and handler as well as other show organizations in the U.S. and abroad. He is best known for being the author of "The Total German Shepherd Dog" and "Canine Hip Dysplasia and Other Orthopedics Disorders".
This dog breed remains popular because of the pups' intelligence, loyalty, and eagerness to please. They can be easily trainable when consistent practice begins at a young age, so you can be sure ...
On the sidelines of a dog show in Karlsruhe in April 1899, Max von Stephanitz, Arthur Meyer, and a number of others decided to form a club for the German Shepherd Dog. On 22 April 1899, the Verein für deutsche Schäferhunde was formally established with its first headquarters in Stuttgart.
DVG is an all-breed dog sport organization in Germany that organizes clubs and trials and has branches in Canada and US. DVG America U.S. DVG-America is an all-breed Schutzhund club; member of DVG. [18] United Schutzhund Clubs of America: USCA U.S. USCA is the largest Schutzhund organization in the US; it is also a German Shepherd Dog breed ...
Although white-coated German Shepherds have been known in Europe as early as 1882, in 1933 the breed standard was amended in their native Germany, banning white-coated dogs from registration. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the United States and Canada the coloration had gained a following and in 1969 a breed club was formed specifically for white-coloured ...
Horand was declared to be the first German Shepherd Dog. [4] However, many German herdsmen continued to breed their dogs for working ability rather than to the new breed standard, and their remaining non-standardised working dogs were called Altdeutscher Schäferhund (plural with -hunde), literally 'old-German shepherd-dog'. [5] [6] [7] [8]