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I'm getting a 9 month old male sheltie pup and it's my first sheltie and I need some information on it.Can someone please help me?
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The Shetland Sheepdog bears resemblance to the Rough Collie. Strong, nimble and lightly built the Sheltie is a fast runner and can jump well. Shetland Sheepdog puppies are beguiling and exhibit a desire to please from a very young age. Intuitive and responsive to their owners' wishes, they make charming family pets. Take care that they are not startled, teased, or left alone as the Shetland Sheepdog can be barky when excited or lonely.
Other Names: Sheltie
Height: 13 - 16 inches
Weight: 14 - 16 lbs.
Colors of the Shetland Sheepdog: Sable, tricolor, blue merle, black and white and black and tan.
Coat: Outer coat of long, straight, harsh-textured hair; soft, short-haired close undercoat.
Temperament: The Shetland Sheepdog is active, intelligent, loyal, affectionate.
With Children: Yes, as long as children are not too rowdy.
With Pets: Yes, gets along well with other dogs, cats and small animals.
Special Skills: Sheepdog or family pet.
Watch-dog: High
Guard-dog: Very Low
Care and Exercise: Regular brushing is important to the Shetland Sheepdog. Mist the coat lightly with water before you begin and tease out mats. Check behind the ears, hindquarters and beneath the shoulders for tangles. Use a comb sparingly. The Sheltie shed twice a year. Bathe or dry shampoo when necessary. Needs plenty of active exercise.
Training: The Sheltie is not difficult to train but they will enjoy time spent in obedience or agility classes.
Learning Rate: Very High, Obedience - Very High, Problem Solving - Very High
Activity: Indoors - High, Outdoors - Very High
Living Environment: The Shetland Sheepdog will adapt to small living quarters if given daily sufficient exercise making them good in a suburban home or an apartment. An owner of a Sheltie must be able to give them a considerable amount of grooming.
Health Issues: Generally healthy, may suffer from cataracts and progressive retinal atrophy.
Life Span: 12 - 14 Years
Litter Size: 4 - 6
Country of Origin: Great Britain
History: Claiming ancestry from the Collie of Scotland the Shetland Sheepdog arrived from the Shetland Islands to mainland England before World War I. The Sheltie has been bred true in the Shetland Islands off the north coast of Scotland for more than 135 years.
First Registered by the AKC: 1911
AKC Group: Herding Group
Class: Herding Group
Registries: AKC, ANKC, CKC, FCI (Group 1), KC(GB), UKC
Quoted from: http://www.2000dogs.com/shetlandsheepdog.htm
The Shetland Sheepdog bears resemblance to the Rough Collie. Strong, nimble and lightly built the Sheltie is a fast runner and can jump well. Shetland Sheepdog puppies are beguiling and exhibit a desire to please from a very young age. Intuitive and responsive to their owners' wishes, they make charming family pets. Take care that they are not startled, teased, or left alone as the Shetland Sheepdog can be barky when excited or lonely.
Other Names: Sheltie
Height: 13 - 16 inches
Weight: 14 - 16 lbs.
Colors of the Shetland Sheepdog: Sable, tricolor, blue merle, black and white and black and tan.
Coat: Outer coat of long, straight, harsh-textured hair; soft, short-haired close undercoat.
Temperament: The Shetland Sheepdog is active, intelligent, loyal, affectionate.
With Children: Yes, as long as children are not too rowdy.
With Pets: Yes, gets along well with other dogs, cats and small animals.
Special Skills: Sheepdog or family pet.
Watch-dog: High
Guard-dog: Very Low
Care and Exercise: Regular brushing is important to the Shetland Sheepdog. Mist the coat lightly with water before you begin and tease out mats. Check behind the ears, hindquarters and beneath the shoulders for tangles. Use a comb sparingly. The Sheltie shed twice a year. Bathe or dry shampoo when necessary. Needs plenty of active exercise.
Training: The Sheltie is not difficult to train but they will enjoy time spent in obedience or agility classes.
Learning Rate: Very High, Obedience - Very High, Problem Solving - Very High
Activity: Indoors - High, Outdoors - Very High
Living Environment: The Shetland Sheepdog will adapt to small living quarters if given daily sufficient exercise making them good in a suburban home or an apartment. An owner of a Sheltie must be able to give them a considerable amount of grooming.
Health Issues: Generally healthy, may suffer from cataracts and progressive retinal atrophy.
Life Span: 12 - 14 Years
Litter Size: 4 - 6
Country of Origin: Great Britain
History: Claiming ancestry from the Collie of Scotland the Shetland Sheepdog arrived from the Shetland Islands to mainland England before World War I. The Sheltie has been bred true in the Shetland Islands off the north coast of Scotland for more than 135 years.
First Registered by the AKC: 1911
AKC Group: Herding Group
Class: Herding Group
Registries: AKC, ANKC, CKC, FCI (Group 1), KC(GB), UKC
Quoted from: http://www.2000dogs.com/shetlandsheepdog.htm
How were white German Shepherd Dogs bred?
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And how did they breed them to be be pure white?
Answer
[4Her4Life]:
You are simply wrong all the way through your first paragraph. If you want to learn some genetics, you could start in my The_GSD_Source: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source (which is a "storage" group) then move on to a geneticist friend's GSD_Genetics: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Genetics for discussion.
In your second paragraph, realise that the UKC (ditto the ACA, ARBA, Con.KC, IKC, NKC, etc) has NO credibility except to those Yanks who pay fees to it. No KC in the world will accept its registration papers, judges licences, titles, obedience qualifications. Therefore there is NO "White German Shepherd" breed. But in the FCI nations (basically the whole world except the rebel nations of Britain, Canada, the USofA) there is the Berger Blanc Suisse, which began as white GSDs with no non-whites in the closest 6 generations then were reregistered as BBSs by the Swiss KC: http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/347a2002_en.doc
Also recall that the UKC allows GSD breeders to choose whether their white pups are white GSDs (which CAN be shown as GSDs in UKC rings) or as WGSDs (which can NOT be shown as GSDs in UKC rings) - some Yanks have no trouble believing 20 impossible things before breakfast, eh!
[Jenny Manyteeth]:
You're obviously a city-kid and a fan of whites.
There are MANY reasons for banning white GSDs. They were tolerated while they were needed to help build up breed numbers, despite that they are unsuitable for almost EVERY task that GSDs were designed to perform. Every sheep farmer requires his/her HERDING dogs to be dark on top and have a dark face, so that the sheep react appropriately. The white sheep dogs are GUARDIANS that sleep with the flock, and are usually bigger than BCs, BSDs and GSDs.
And no, the original GSDs were NOT "long-coats" - in GSDs the long-coats lack an undercoat, so are totally unsuitable for working outdoors. There used to be FIVE coat-types in the German Sheepdog types, but 2 of them were very quickly bred-out of GSDs - one of them being the rough-coat that you confuse with long-coats. Rough-coats being caused by a simple dominant, they were easy to avoid.
As for that "hard, difficult to manage" temperament... I've imported 3 German bitches and used several German studs. EASY to manage! My second English bit.ch and my first German bit.ch hated each other (both imported at about 3 years old), but were manageable running loose provide we didn't allow them to both disappear out of sight at the same time.
When your awareness catches up with the rest of the world you will discover that the adults at the British Sieger Event have to possess SchH in order to enter and then have to perform the seek-bail-escort (Part 3 of SchH) at the show, as do entrants at THE SiegerSchau. You will also discover that in Scandinavia and much of Europe no GSD litter can be registered unless both parents possess SchH plus hip & elbow Pass certificates. In Australia, SchH & RingSport are now illegal except in Queensland, but no GSD litter can be registered in Australia unless both parents possess hip & elbow certificates and a haemophilia negative certificate, and each pup must be a Standard colour.
[Summervl..]:
The alleles for producing white dogs appeared LONG ago, well before there were actual breeds (just "types" - bandogs, bird-dogs, sleeve-dogs, terriers, hauling dogs, herding dogs, scent-hounds, sight-hounds; all dogs had to earn their keep, even m'lady's pet sleeve-dog had 4 functions), let alone before there were dog shows.
In some breeds those alleles were treasured and so were selected-for.
In other breeds they were unsuitable for the breed's purposes and so were selected against.
To understand what's happened you first need to realise that there are 2 pigments available to be injected into the hairs of dogs.
·· Eumelanin normally produces black hairs, but recessive modifier-genes can degrade it to liver or blue or Isabella.
·· Phaeomelanin normally produces rich tan, but dominant modifier-genes can degrade it to fawns, creams, and even chalky-silver.
In white dogs, BOTH pigments are blocked - the hairs emerge without pigment, and so are transparent. They don't absorb any colour, so the full spectrum is refracted through and reflected off them. We see the full spectrum as white.
⢠Eumelanin is blocked by the recessive e^ e^ pairing. Dogs with a brown-all-over coat are showing the effect of that pairing.
⢠Phaeomelanin is blocked by (in at least the Samoyed - I'm not yet certain about the GSD) the recessive a^ a^ pairing. Dogs with a black-all-over coat are showing the effect of either that pairing (as in GSDs) or of the dominant K^B allele at a different locus (as in Labradors).
So dogs that have BOTH a^ a^ and e^ e^ can produce NO coat pigment, but do produce normal skin pigment and eye pigment. (They are NOT albinos!) I've not yet checked whether e^ e^ K^B also produces self-white.
[4Her4Life]:
You are simply wrong all the way through your first paragraph. If you want to learn some genetics, you could start in my The_GSD_Source: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source (which is a "storage" group) then move on to a geneticist friend's GSD_Genetics: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Genetics for discussion.
In your second paragraph, realise that the UKC (ditto the ACA, ARBA, Con.KC, IKC, NKC, etc) has NO credibility except to those Yanks who pay fees to it. No KC in the world will accept its registration papers, judges licences, titles, obedience qualifications. Therefore there is NO "White German Shepherd" breed. But in the FCI nations (basically the whole world except the rebel nations of Britain, Canada, the USofA) there is the Berger Blanc Suisse, which began as white GSDs with no non-whites in the closest 6 generations then were reregistered as BBSs by the Swiss KC: http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/347a2002_en.doc
Also recall that the UKC allows GSD breeders to choose whether their white pups are white GSDs (which CAN be shown as GSDs in UKC rings) or as WGSDs (which can NOT be shown as GSDs in UKC rings) - some Yanks have no trouble believing 20 impossible things before breakfast, eh!
[Jenny Manyteeth]:
You're obviously a city-kid and a fan of whites.
There are MANY reasons for banning white GSDs. They were tolerated while they were needed to help build up breed numbers, despite that they are unsuitable for almost EVERY task that GSDs were designed to perform. Every sheep farmer requires his/her HERDING dogs to be dark on top and have a dark face, so that the sheep react appropriately. The white sheep dogs are GUARDIANS that sleep with the flock, and are usually bigger than BCs, BSDs and GSDs.
And no, the original GSDs were NOT "long-coats" - in GSDs the long-coats lack an undercoat, so are totally unsuitable for working outdoors. There used to be FIVE coat-types in the German Sheepdog types, but 2 of them were very quickly bred-out of GSDs - one of them being the rough-coat that you confuse with long-coats. Rough-coats being caused by a simple dominant, they were easy to avoid.
As for that "hard, difficult to manage" temperament... I've imported 3 German bitches and used several German studs. EASY to manage! My second English bit.ch and my first German bit.ch hated each other (both imported at about 3 years old), but were manageable running loose provide we didn't allow them to both disappear out of sight at the same time.
When your awareness catches up with the rest of the world you will discover that the adults at the British Sieger Event have to possess SchH in order to enter and then have to perform the seek-bail-escort (Part 3 of SchH) at the show, as do entrants at THE SiegerSchau. You will also discover that in Scandinavia and much of Europe no GSD litter can be registered unless both parents possess SchH plus hip & elbow Pass certificates. In Australia, SchH & RingSport are now illegal except in Queensland, but no GSD litter can be registered in Australia unless both parents possess hip & elbow certificates and a haemophilia negative certificate, and each pup must be a Standard colour.
[Summervl..]:
The alleles for producing white dogs appeared LONG ago, well before there were actual breeds (just "types" - bandogs, bird-dogs, sleeve-dogs, terriers, hauling dogs, herding dogs, scent-hounds, sight-hounds; all dogs had to earn their keep, even m'lady's pet sleeve-dog had 4 functions), let alone before there were dog shows.
In some breeds those alleles were treasured and so were selected-for.
In other breeds they were unsuitable for the breed's purposes and so were selected against.
To understand what's happened you first need to realise that there are 2 pigments available to be injected into the hairs of dogs.
·· Eumelanin normally produces black hairs, but recessive modifier-genes can degrade it to liver or blue or Isabella.
·· Phaeomelanin normally produces rich tan, but dominant modifier-genes can degrade it to fawns, creams, and even chalky-silver.
In white dogs, BOTH pigments are blocked - the hairs emerge without pigment, and so are transparent. They don't absorb any colour, so the full spectrum is refracted through and reflected off them. We see the full spectrum as white.
⢠Eumelanin is blocked by the recessive e^ e^ pairing. Dogs with a brown-all-over coat are showing the effect of that pairing.
⢠Phaeomelanin is blocked by (in at least the Samoyed - I'm not yet certain about the GSD) the recessive a^ a^ pairing. Dogs with a black-all-over coat are showing the effect of either that pairing (as in GSDs) or of the dominant K^B allele at a different locus (as in Labradors).
So dogs that have BOTH a^ a^ and e^ e^ can produce NO coat pigment, but do produce normal skin pigment and eye pigment. (They are NOT albinos!) I've not yet checked whether e^ e^ K^B also produces self-white.
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