Originally posted by Lois Schwarz on Feb. 17, 2005sorry about that marilyn, yeah, those groups are hard to navigate and take so very long!! yeaaaaa...
fortunatly i get direct mail from there ha ha...
so marilyn, whats on your mind dear?
how is your dog? didnt you say you have a shilo? I have been doing research on that breed of late.
last time i looked up the shilo's was back in 1987 or so... bought when i started breeding the german shepherds with malamutes.
that was a long time ago and it seems that the shilo's are all over the place now, going strong.... breeding a lot... holding shows.... getting ready to go akc?
we do not want any such recognition. My plan is to take this slow and methodical.
it seems tina the founder is upset about the breeding of her shilo's?
in my opinion she should have made some rules back then so that the breeding program was stricter... hmmm.
there are no clubs out where you live. there are no alsatian shepalutes out there either.
when i started breeding i wanted full control and i wanted to wait until i had the breed set. I have bred these dogs into a tight formation of genetical substance and nothing short of breeding to a german shepherd will get them out of who they are.
they are not as big" as those giant shilo shepherds. as a matter of fact i do have a comparison that i wrote up that will be going into our next alsatian shepalute quarterly magazine. which isnt a magazine yet, it is just over the internet. cost less that way.
there are about 300 owners of these dogs but all of them but one have gotten thier dogs for pets. these are not german shepherds. these are not a working dog. these dogs were bred soely for companion animals. no hyper activity , no consistant barking. they only bark when something out of the ordinary happens. then they stop barking. they have a deep bark not a whynn or a high pitch yeip.
they have round feet, not oval. they have round bones, not oval. they have shorter tails and some curl and they all raise up over the back when challenged or assuming dominance. they do not have a high step or reach. they have a shorter stryd. they are larger in girth than most of the shilos i have seen. they have larger heads and the ears come off the sides of thier head not off the top. their ears are short and triangular.
that is just a little bit of the comparison. the shilo is a shepherd. the alsatian shepalute is not. though many confuse them to be. they do not act like a shilo or a g.s.d. they do not act like a mastiff or a mal. they act like the best of the combination of the three.
I have hand selected over 18 generations picking only non barkers, non whynners, non hyper, non shy dogs. then i rebred into each other and set the genetic code strong. i bred brother to sister, cousin to cousin, mother to father and grandfather. then i outcrossed and am now rebreding that outcross back into my lines, if the out cross pups work out as i exspect they will.
I am very sorry that you can not see one. nope, the closest one to you would be up in hells canyon oregon joseph county. she is the only other breeder also.
breeding these dogs is complicated and puppies must pass a birth test, a 8 wk test and a 6 month testing so that no hyperness, barkers, or shy dogs inter the breeding pool.
those characteristics are dominant. way dominant and will take forever to keep out of our breed. some pet quality pups may pocess such but it will not be much.
many owners do not hear thier dogs bark until a year old. some get concerned that thier dog may be deaf and can not bark. thats crazy.... they do and they will they just dont have anything to bark at yet. ha ha...
some pups have been a bit shy but age and training always bring them out.
those are pet quality dogs and are not used as breeders.
If i have left anything out or you want toknow more i will be glad to email you.
we are in the process of revising our national bylaws. if youd like to know more about that you need to go to the web site.
i have tried to go over all the links to make sure they are all up and going.
i have inclosed those links after my name...
hope you can get to them.
If there is anything i can do for you please, love to talk dogs... anytime...
Lois Schwarz
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