Shiloh Dogs(beware you may not like this) Dont read if your not happy with your life. - Page 3

A biblical name would be the first turn off for me, LOL! 

I'm not a purist.  Don't care about bloodlines particularly.  I want to see the sire and dam and the grandsire and dam if possible, and ask the right questions about hips and health.  My dog's pedigrees are still in the brown envelopes they came in.  I've never looked at them again. 

This much I know.  My sweet girl saved her brother"s life by coming quite a distance to tell my partner in his shop that her brother  was drowning.  He could not get out of the water.  The boy was minutes from drowning - his body was so tired that when he was scooped out, he lay down for DAYS in agony from his tired muscles.  He cried in anticipated pain when I merely opened the door to the room he was in.  We had to put a sling under him to bring him outside to relieve himself. 

That kind of smart - that kind of intuition doesn't come on a piece of paper.  My beautiful, sensitive girl literally came to my partner and barked at him.  He shooed her away.  She would not go.  She stood there and barked at him and turned to face outside of his shop.  She did it several times.  Her insistance made my partner (who was totally immersed in rebuilding an engine) take notice and follow her to the pool where the poor dog was struggling to keep his head above water. 

She is a white shepherd.  She is also a purebred German Shepherd - and although many on these boards would have her sterilized so that her color is not repeated - the breed would lose much more by not breeding her.  She is a German Shepherd Dog and none of those displaying the circular reasoning for limiting the breeding of this color has made a single rational argument for the limitation. 


If her health tests permit - I will breed her.  Breed standard or not - that kind of smarts, that kind of intellectual bond and intuition needs to be passed on.  It is a gift to the world. 

Shilohs, Kings, other mixes - great pedigree, poor pedigree, white, black, big small....  purists run the risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater....  especially when they seek to supress the discussion about the qualities of each of these animals - even if they're not "pure" German Shepherds...

Hodie and Ninja181

"   The Shiloh is NOT an AKC breed. And the Shiloh is not a GSD and ergo, most people here are not interested in all the baloney a few want to write about extolling the great qualities of their Shiloh. They make good pets and so do rocks and slugs for some.     "
 

"I think I'll go find a forum strictly about Chevy Corvettes and start a bunch of threads on Ford Cobras."

I find it ironic that in a forum where GERMAN Shepherd Dogs are loved by all, and most have German sounding names, and many are involved in "Schutzhund" (sp?) - that you would seek to stifle discussion on anything but the "pure breed"....

    
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