White Shepherds

[jackfrost]

I've always heard them called K-9s (pronounced kay nines)...the units and the dogs themselves. Its probabaly different depending on where you live.

and I think the reason you dont see much more of them because it is a recessive gene and there just arent that many compared to their colored brothers.

now just think about that, it IS a recessive and a recessive that was selected AGAINST till almost no whites where showing up in normal litters. So to create whites consitently, which is what white breeders do, do you think they took your average working GSD and got some whites by accident and sell them that way, or do you think they took the ever shrinking pool of GSD's with white genes left and did lots of breeding back on themselves to consistently get white??

[borzoimom]

actually I got a white out of a sable and black and tan breeding..

[NicoleLJ]

actually I got a white out of a sable and black and tan breeding..

Which is quite common.
Nicole

[borzoimom]

yea it shocked me thats for sure... lol..

[Ceph]

again, back to horses.....but I have seen friesians (pure black dominant gene) mated to other Black horses throw palamino babies (golden body, cream hair)....hec, I even saw a chesnut friesian, which is said to be impossible genetically....dont ever discount mother nature...she always has the neatest tricks up her sleeve. In horses chesnuts are the most recessive of the colors...but all I ever see in my program here are chesnuts. neither of our stallions are chesnuts....not too many of our mares are chesnuts...they must be coming from somewhere....

and its very possible the same happened with WGSDs...not saying it did....its just possible....you can typically figure out the parents genetics by the time they've had their second get....so it wouldn't be too hard to breed colored dogs to whelp whites even if it was just two or three a litter...not hard at all. Thus your genetic base starts to expand as far as the whites go.

[borzoimom]

My borzoi breeder had Black pearl too.. same thing...