Thanks. As you can see my dog Blitz's dam was jet black and he had all black litter mates. He's not quite as tan as his sire but much more so then some of his brothers and sisters.
Ive found as long as they have lot of exercise they will settle down at night. And getting my rump up around the park isnt exactly a tragedy. I decided the dog is bright enough to trial and we may end up breeding him. The actual breed standard for the GSD is males 75 to 85 lbs and females maybe a tad smaller. When WW2 ended and Germany was split the GSD bloodlines were also split with the best working lines remaining in the east. Many of the GSDs that came to America were bred to American standards, and of course almost every American wants a monster 125 lb dog, so a lot of health issues were introduced into the gene pool and the working lines were diminished in America. Thats why police Dept.'s pay big $$ to get GSDs imported from East Germany. So I'd say your lucky your girl is only 75 to 80lbs. Anyway I get all this from the canine guys in my Dept. Thats why PDs dont take donation dogs anymore, cause the "work" has been bred out of them.
In the end who gives a crap as long as you love your dog and he loves you.
But I did want a pup from East German lines at least and those things are dang expensive, like $2,500 to $4,000. I got extremely lucky finding this guy for the price I did and he shows all the traits of the lines I was looking for.
Im pretty lucky with dogs. I was walking one of my hunting Labs around the park once when I saw a 6 mo vizsla pointing a pigeon. The dog was obviously a natural so I went up and introduced myself to the girl who owned him, and who 6 mos later became my wife.
She was a non-hunting yuppie who wanted a athletic dog to jog with and who just happened to pick a pup sired by this guy
http://www.buschvizslas.com/askim.htm I hunted with that dog for the next 12 years. like i said "lucky".
