As soon as winter is over, we find fuzz balls all over the house..losing her winter coat, lol..but compared to my previous shepherd, she definitely sheds the least, the others were massive shepherds with very thick and fluffy coats, she has a more smooth.."hardish" type hair..I wouldn't discourage you from getting a shepherd because of shedding, its controllable with the right shampoo and diets, but the most important thing is their health, the only problem we've had with her is her ears..she always seems to get bad ear infections and costing us a trip to the vet to have them cleaned out, the vet said it could be from digging..but I thought that was silly..we changed her food, she's improved a bit but we bought meds to clean her ears out at least once a week.