I don't understand why someone who isn't breeding for schutzhund should have to do schutzhund? Heck, I AM breeding for schutzhund and not only are my dogs untitled in it, but I haven't even done any schutzhund yet.

There really is alot of prejiduce against the groenendael in protection sports, and the black GSD for that matter too -- we recently had a discussion on the Belgian list about GSDs vs Belgians, and the topic of black GSDs came up. It interests me that in working venues people can be so iffy about colours. If the dog can work, who cares? Even if you are right and the American white shepherd breed as a whole can not do schutzhund (even though that is not it's original purpose, such as your comparison with jack russells -- though they can do it, most do not simply because it isn't what it's intended to do), would you be so prejiduced against individual white dogs that do do schutzhund? Or is it just against the ones doing their original purpose, therapy work? The original intent of the GSD was a herding dog -- how many schutzhund GSDs do you see herding?

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