IS HE A LONG COAT OR STOCK COAT? I'M CONFUSED! - Page 10

You won't have any trouble selling them, especially to pet homes. I think a lot of pet people WANT them; it's just those of us who "know better" (lol) that have this stigma with them. They typically have great temperament and tend to be a tad calmer than their stock coated siblings. If he's everything you wanted, I would not cut off my nose to spite my face. ALL dogs have flaws. If his flaw is that he's coated, well, that's certainly an easy one to breed to compensate for. It's the hidden stuff I worry about. Don't breed for coat, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, either. 

Thanks Jenni, thats an excellent post, and nice word of encouragement for me!  I was pretty disappointed to get the LC results today, but on the flip side was thrilled with the DM clear part!  And like I said, that's much more important to me than just his coat length!

Although the coat DNA results are not what you have hoped for, you should be very proud that you have a great  healthy dog, with nice temperament, and nice pedigree.
I believe that coties are becoming very popular in North America these days. I would have to agree that coated GSD's for some unknown reason are generally smarter, and easier to work and live with than the regular coated GSD's. I don't see why is his "flaw" that he is coated.....this"flaw" is just somebody's perspective and not everybody agrees with this "flaw".
As stated above I believe that LSC GSD's are now on the run of popularity and you will not have troubles selling the offspring if that is your intention.
The only "negative" thing about this DNA founding is that you have probably paid the price for standard coated dog and not LSC at the time of purchase. You could have saved your self possibly few hundred dollars if you knew that he was LSC. Judging from your story about him, everything else you are happy with, so be happy :)

 

seeofred- thanks, I am happy with him. I bought him off the pdb picture of him, in which he looked stock coated to me. I probably wouldn't have bought him if I'd known he was actually going to be coated, but it's all said and done now, and I'm not unhappy with him. His coat really isn't that long to me, it hasn't grown any more in 2 months, so I BELIEVE it's done growing. I can deal with what it looks like now. If it's a nice weekend, and I have time, will try to get more pics this weekend for all.

If the SV eventually gets around to fully rectifying that which they sundered to begin with, and stops with this meshugenah 'separate registry and show classes', he'll be a long stock coat who is genetically a long stock coat.  He's in excellent company, if you look back at some of the most influential dogs in the breed's history...some which have had enough coat that people described them as looking like Rough Collies.

Sorry you didn't get the genetic coat results you thought you were purchasing, and it might well be worth requesting a price adjustment or some other consideration on that basis, but he looks like he's a nicely put-together dog who will be gorgeous to behold. And the DM result was favorable, so you've also got that.  Will be eager to see how he looks when fully mature...

You are right hexe, thanks. And he was actually very reasonable in purchase, so I'm not going to ask for any adjustments. His total cost with shipping was quite a bit less than all the Remo puppies for sale in the USA so I'm not upset over what I paid for him, coat or not.