Shepherd dog

Shepherds are originally from shepherds ( shepherds - see sheep ) for herding and driving the herd of sheep herding breeds used. Dogs were bred specifically for this purpose and so created working dogs, which are summarized under the term Shepherds. To date, there Shepherds as working dogs of the shepherds. From the working dogs breeds were developed later. In Germany the term is often used synonymously for the German Shepherd Dog.

Tasks of a German Shepherd

Max von Stephanitz who is considered the founder of the breed of the German Shepherd, directs 1921 the duties of a shepherd from which a herd dog as follows:

" The first and earliest of these tasks [ of the dog in the flock ] is to protect the resting or distracted while grazing herd against hostile action from outside. The second is to hold the herd to prevent the unauthorized discharge of individual animals, notably the visit on the way to the pasture, and abgekommene animals and bring back to the heap. And finally, a third is in the pasture adjoining cultivated fields before the gluttony and thus the devastation caused by the grazing herd to protect. This last task today is the main task of the so -herding and military dogs become shepherd dog [ ... ]. "

Breeds

From the FCI recognized breeds

Shepherds are summarized in the race nomenclature of the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI ) to section 1 of group 1.

Not recognized by the FCI breeds

• Old German Shepherd
• Old German Shepherd dogs Yellow cheek
• Tiger
• Schafspudel also hats Poodle
• Fuchs: Harzer Fuchs
• Black
• Strobel
• Westerwald / Siegerländer cow dog