Norma

She came to us in a basket with 3 other littermates. Her Breeder had a litter of 10 and back then the SV rules stated no more than 6 to be left on a foster mother if a foster mother cannot be found the extras had to be destroyed, if any are raised by Bottle then these will not be allowed in the breed registry ( same as our AKC’s limited reg ) . We had a foster mother at that time and our Breedwarden arranged for us to take in 4 from one litter and 2 from a different litter, the 2 from the other litter was permanently marked for the time being by cutting off the hair on the neck.
Our Foster Mother took them right in and raised the pups in a kennel during a time when we had snow and ice everywhere. Our Breed warden recommended we leave her outside because she was used to being outside she would feel very uncomfortable in the warm house.
My Norma was the runt of a litter of 10, however I had my eyes set on her from the time they started to walk, she was very spirited never would allow to be bullied by her bigger brothers. By the time they were being tattooed and ready to be placed I had made up my mind no matter what this little female was going to be my working dog regardless how she turned out otherwise.
I just spent time taking her for walks no kind of training yet, her curiosity had no limits. We moved back to the US with a total of 5 dogs, our old Sonja, a Male which I did SchH2 with, frog eyed Carmen ( the Foster mother ) 2 females from my breeding which I titled over here along with my Norma.
Norma was about 10 months old when I took her to our first temporary training ground, Larry had the hard Farbo and Norma went right for it. I have many good memories of her from training, tracking and all. She did SchH3 five times and FH 3 times. I took her to Germany once to be bred. A group of us German Shepherd fancies finally narrowed it down, so she was bred to one of the dogs from von Noort Kennel. She whelped 5 Litters for us in total. 3 of her puppies made SchH3.
I was fortunate to own her and she will always be remembered.
Anna

Norma was surveyed on 5/17/81 by Herr Hengmith.
The complete survey describes her as:
Good medium size, powerful, compact bitch, stretched with very good front and rear angulation. High wither, very good topline and good set and length of croup. Fore chest and depth is in correct proportion. The gait is very ground covering and is carried over a firm back. Very good mother type. Character sure. Courage and fighting drive pronounced.