Ursus & Yasko lines... - Page 1

Why are people trying now to breed dogs which do not have these dogs in their lines?

I have heard that these 2 dogs are found in lots of pedigrees, so oculd the reason be to breed away from them, to prevent inbreeding?

or is there some other reason as well?

All help welcome

I have a 4 y.o female who has epilepsy, severe food allergies & contact allergies, an abnormally small femoral head in one hip, HD with arthritis is the other hip & now anal furunculosis.  Her immune system is shot to pieces (if it exists at all).

I have spent a long time researching Yasko & have found lots of descendants dying young, particularly from immune system problems (mostly allergies).

Howvere, the proportion of dogs descended from Yasko that I have found to be suffering form illnesses are probably small in number compared to the amount of offspring he has produced, so that has to be bourne in mind.

My concern is that there are far to many of his offspring in the UK & that in years to come it will be difficult to avoid doubling up on him in pedigrees.

Personally, from my experiences & what I have researched if I were to ever have a anothr GSD, which I doubt I will, I would never have one with him in the pedigree!

Takes 2 to tango.

I would feel its due to all the inreeding/linebreeding which has already been done on these dogs.

ever hear of the popular sire syndrome?

OK thank you for the help.

 Ursus is famous for throwing crappy ears, HD, allergies, among other things.

I personally steer clear of pedigrees with those dogs. 


The idea of a dog being in over 70% of the pedigrees of German Shepherds is appalling. We are making our gene pool smaller and smaller and eventually will be killing off our breed...

Ursus is also famous for being one of the greatest producers of all time...he's known to throw VA dogs.

@mtndawg great joke

Yes it hink that if a lot fo the GSDs have any of these 2 dogs in there pedigress than their will be a smaller pool gene.

Thank you everyone for your help.

Well its fashionable now for people to say that they are free of it.. so in order to propegate these lines they are introducing  they must shed a negative light on a dog that was fabulous and produced so nicely ... See if you BLAME all the  GSD possibilities and woes on him then your dogs will be pure. (G)  Gods.

Yes I have a sarcastic sense of humor.

He was a fabulous dog. As many offspring and decendents as he had there are bound to be some who have had problems crop up... but honestly I would look closer at the parents and the upbringing before blaming great grandpa. for everything under the sun.

Introducing new blood periodically to any family line can be a positive thing..

Debi