Well now that was an interesting post from Nicole. She says she is breeding a"proven service dog", yet her so called service dog has no titles? Could you tell us what school you and your dog graduated from and why you said you didn't think your dog needed any titles or certificates? When you graduate with your dog, you have a certificate to prove it is a service dog. And you say you are not interested in working titles. That is what a GSD was born to do. You want us to believe you will automatically have service dog quality pups when the dam is not proven in anything? Shelter dogs are often taken in to be trained as service dogs and they do a great job. You are not interested in obedience, how does one expect a service dog to follow instuctions and commands without basic obedience. And what about tracking? What if the dog is in charge of an alzheimer's patient or an autisitc child and they wander away? How would the dog find his "charges" if he knew nothing of tracking?
A GSD is first and foremost a working dog in the true sense of the word. If your dog can't meet the requirements, it should not be bred. You skirt around the issue of your dog's titles or certificates, which to me points out that she has none.
What would happen if a guide dog were to lead a blind person and a car backfired and the dog freaked ? Or what if a dog accompanied a disabled person and met some unruly people and decided to growl or raise it's hackles?
These dogs would quickly be washed out of a program. That is why it is so important that service dogs experience all kinds of noises and distractions before entering a program.
If a dog has not been proven for steady drive and nerves, then it can't be considered as a true working GSD. The training a schH dog gets only proves his worthiness more, every GSD was born for this type of work. A GSD is nothing but a pet without proof of being able to work as it was bred to do.
As for police work, they do not accept WGSD's because they are too visible to go undetected. If you can show me one white proven GSD of today, not eons ago, I might tend to believe there might be one or two in the deep recesses of somewhere, but you can't even prove your own dog's worthiness.
The best proof I can give you is to send you to Fred Lanting's explanations of real GSD's. Knowing how intensive and complicated his readings are, I'm sure you won't want to dedicate the necessary time to it.
Or, there is also a great forum on service dogs that you could access for information, I think it's called "Our Community service dogs". I could ask for the name from a friend if you can't get into the site.






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