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James
I'll be buying a GSD sometime next year and currently looking for breeders, what attracted me to this breeder is that they aim to breed well tempered GSDs... which is what I'm after.
http://www.kassaar.com/breeding/index.php
Thank you for answering and visiting the site.
!There is no reason for Ignorance !call a vet! - oh at the top mate there's home, about, testimonials, breeding ect... you can select on one of those.
hey all I found them through this - http://www.dogzonline.com.au/breeds/breeders/german-shepherd-dog.asp?state=QLD&Submit=Go
What do you think of this website?
Answer
Don't go thinking that "we aim for a good temperament" is the same as "our dogs ARE well-tempered". One of the studs they've used has a reputation for over-aggression (he is alleged to have tried to attack a person or pooch at something like a GSD National about 3 years ago; a friend bought a daughter of his and the pup tried, in the middle of a small town, to attack a person she was happy to be friendly with when at home - so the pup went back to the breeder, and apparently finished up with an unsuspecting pet-owner. At this year's NZ GSD National 2 of her siblings were graded Excellent, a dog by the same stud but from a different kennel was also graded Excellent).
And nowhere in your question is there anything about what YOU want to be able to do with your pooch. The GSD is the world's most versatile breed - but most pooches registered as GSDs are deviations from the International Standard of the GSD:
http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/166g01-en-sv.doc
and far from versatile. So the parents & grandparents of the pup you choose MUST have qualifications that suit what you want.
Never forget that a kennel web-site is an ADVERTISEMENT. Would you choose between a Ford & a Holden by just what is in the Ford ads and what's in the Holden ads???
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/search.html?q=+KASSAAR&index_in=All&results_in=25&dog_breed=german_shepherd_dog
will give your the photo-pedigrees of the 7 individuals currently listed in the pedigreedatabase
Typing KASSAAR into
http://www.rhosyngsd.com/modules.php
(which is purely for GSDs in Ozzie) will give you a bit of information about 5 of the GSDs in their first litter, 1 in their second litter.
My Queensland contacts have either dropped out of breeding or managed to escape into NSW (just as my maternal grandmother escaped from Tasmania to Sydney to NZ, and my f.i.l. and m.i.l. escaped from Queensland to NZ), and Kassaar didn't exist when I was keeping track of Ozzie kennels (I live on the better side of "the ditch"), so I can't tell you about the breeders, except that they seem to be rather new, have apparently abandoned their initial bloodline and moved on to importing a couple of pooches from Austria & Croatia and are mating them to popular noble-line studs.
The sire of my current pup: http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/dog.html?id=1325022 comes from WA.
I DON'T like it that the listings in the pedigreedatabase have not yet had any hip & elbow scores recorded, have not been Breed Surveyed, do not yet have any character or trainability certificates listed.
In Australia, GSDs cannot have litters registered UNLESS both patents have acceptable hip & elbow scores, and either have a haemophilia negative certificate or have a pedigree that was all Australian-bred from haemophilia-negative stock. Sons of imported bitches, and sons of daughters of imported bitches, have to get that haemophilia-negative clearance for themselves.
And only Breed Surveyed GSDs are eligible for an Excellent grading in Australia.
www.kassaar.com/ and www.kassaar.com/breeding/about.php show that they are a very commercial set-up (I prefer breeders to NOT make their living from pets, keeping their dogs as a hobby, not a retail business).
If there is a particular litter you are interested in, check out the hip & elbow statistics for the males in the litter's 3 or 4 generation pedigree (bitches rarely have enough xrayed offspring to be worth doing an analysis for, so the GSDCAu doesn't bother with bitches). It is the WORST score produced that is important. Click: http://www.gsdcouncilaustralia.org/entrypage.htm
hover over: GSDCA Schemes
and click on: Hip & Elbow Schemes
then do a lot of reading or scroll down to the set of hotlinks that take you to the results of the analyses
Add
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source/
to your browser, so that you can easily look up all sorts of information about dogs, especially GSDs.
Its first Message shows the information I require if I have to visit a breeder's web-site. Have you seen Kassaar's Guarantee and any Contract they require you sign?
To discuss GSDs, join some groups such as
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
The people in them KNOW about GSDs. Plus you can include actual photos in your posts, unlike the clunky mechanism that stingy Y!A provides.
If you want to read MY pup's escapades, and her misdeeds when I don't pay enough attention, search its Messages for "The Beagirl" and start from the oldest such message.
Max the real McCoy - first pup in 1950; GSD breeder & trainer as of 1968
Don't go thinking that "we aim for a good temperament" is the same as "our dogs ARE well-tempered". One of the studs they've used has a reputation for over-aggression (he is alleged to have tried to attack a person or pooch at something like a GSD National about 3 years ago; a friend bought a daughter of his and the pup tried, in the middle of a small town, to attack a person she was happy to be friendly with when at home - so the pup went back to the breeder, and apparently finished up with an unsuspecting pet-owner. At this year's NZ GSD National 2 of her siblings were graded Excellent, a dog by the same stud but from a different kennel was also graded Excellent).
And nowhere in your question is there anything about what YOU want to be able to do with your pooch. The GSD is the world's most versatile breed - but most pooches registered as GSDs are deviations from the International Standard of the GSD:
http://www.fci.be/uploaded_files/166g01-en-sv.doc
and far from versatile. So the parents & grandparents of the pup you choose MUST have qualifications that suit what you want.
Never forget that a kennel web-site is an ADVERTISEMENT. Would you choose between a Ford & a Holden by just what is in the Ford ads and what's in the Holden ads???
http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/search.html?q=+KASSAAR&index_in=All&results_in=25&dog_breed=german_shepherd_dog
will give your the photo-pedigrees of the 7 individuals currently listed in the pedigreedatabase
Typing KASSAAR into
http://www.rhosyngsd.com/modules.php
(which is purely for GSDs in Ozzie) will give you a bit of information about 5 of the GSDs in their first litter, 1 in their second litter.
My Queensland contacts have either dropped out of breeding or managed to escape into NSW (just as my maternal grandmother escaped from Tasmania to Sydney to NZ, and my f.i.l. and m.i.l. escaped from Queensland to NZ), and Kassaar didn't exist when I was keeping track of Ozzie kennels (I live on the better side of "the ditch"), so I can't tell you about the breeders, except that they seem to be rather new, have apparently abandoned their initial bloodline and moved on to importing a couple of pooches from Austria & Croatia and are mating them to popular noble-line studs.
The sire of my current pup: http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/dog.html?id=1325022 comes from WA.
I DON'T like it that the listings in the pedigreedatabase have not yet had any hip & elbow scores recorded, have not been Breed Surveyed, do not yet have any character or trainability certificates listed.
In Australia, GSDs cannot have litters registered UNLESS both patents have acceptable hip & elbow scores, and either have a haemophilia negative certificate or have a pedigree that was all Australian-bred from haemophilia-negative stock. Sons of imported bitches, and sons of daughters of imported bitches, have to get that haemophilia-negative clearance for themselves.
And only Breed Surveyed GSDs are eligible for an Excellent grading in Australia.
www.kassaar.com/ and www.kassaar.com/breeding/about.php show that they are a very commercial set-up (I prefer breeders to NOT make their living from pets, keeping their dogs as a hobby, not a retail business).
If there is a particular litter you are interested in, check out the hip & elbow statistics for the males in the litter's 3 or 4 generation pedigree (bitches rarely have enough xrayed offspring to be worth doing an analysis for, so the GSDCAu doesn't bother with bitches). It is the WORST score produced that is important. Click: http://www.gsdcouncilaustralia.org/entrypage.htm
hover over: GSDCA Schemes
and click on: Hip & Elbow Schemes
then do a lot of reading or scroll down to the set of hotlinks that take you to the results of the analyses
Add
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source/
to your browser, so that you can easily look up all sorts of information about dogs, especially GSDs.
Its first Message shows the information I require if I have to visit a breeder's web-site. Have you seen Kassaar's Guarantee and any Contract they require you sign?
To discuss GSDs, join some groups such as
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly
The people in them KNOW about GSDs. Plus you can include actual photos in your posts, unlike the clunky mechanism that stingy Y!A provides.
If you want to read MY pup's escapades, and her misdeeds when I don't pay enough attention, search its Messages for "The Beagirl" and start from the oldest such message.
Max the real McCoy - first pup in 1950; GSD breeder & trainer as of 1968
Clever AKC registration name that goes with "Sydney"?
Toller
Getting a puppy soon and her name will be Sydney. Looking for suggestions for the long name, as I'm not all that creative. My other dog, London, ended up with a lame-o name because I didn't take the time to think of anything cool.
Sydney will be a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, and will compete in AKC hunt tests.
Looking forward to your ideas!
Answer
What you need are names that go with the breeder's kennel pre-fix name. ( unless the breeder doesn't want it used) Some ideas, are a nearby landmark, ( or a landmark from country of origin) a favorite song, a play on your own name, or just something that is 'pretty' or meaningful to you. You should also ask the breeder if the litter has a name 'theme'.
The registered name doesn't need to 'go with' the call name. Very few do.
For instance, I have "Xerses of _ _ _ _ _ _ _",..but his call name is Honi ( long 'o' sound)
Another is, " Diadema Archon Ek _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "..but call name is Nougat.
My hounds' grandsire is Kibik's The Challenger..(Westminster winner) but his call name was Pepsi.
If you want the call name to match, that's fine, but not necessary.
Here are some guidelines from AKC:
# The AKC permits thirty-seven (37) dogs of each breed to be assigned the same name.
Note: Effective, February 1, 2008, AKC is testing a pilot program that allows for the registered name of a dog to contain up to (50) fifty characters. An additional $10 fee will be incurred when more than (36) thirty-six characters are chosen.
# Words and phrases that may not be included in a dog's name:
* Champion, champ, sieger or any other AKC title or show term, either spelled out or abbreviated.
* Obscenities and words derogatory to any race, creed or nationality or transliterations of such words.
* Kennel(s), male, stud, sire, bitch, dam and female.
* Breed names alone.
http://www.akc.org/reg/namingofdog.cfm
What you need are names that go with the breeder's kennel pre-fix name. ( unless the breeder doesn't want it used) Some ideas, are a nearby landmark, ( or a landmark from country of origin) a favorite song, a play on your own name, or just something that is 'pretty' or meaningful to you. You should also ask the breeder if the litter has a name 'theme'.
The registered name doesn't need to 'go with' the call name. Very few do.
For instance, I have "Xerses of _ _ _ _ _ _ _",..but his call name is Honi ( long 'o' sound)
Another is, " Diadema Archon Ek _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "..but call name is Nougat.
My hounds' grandsire is Kibik's The Challenger..(Westminster winner) but his call name was Pepsi.
If you want the call name to match, that's fine, but not necessary.
Here are some guidelines from AKC:
# The AKC permits thirty-seven (37) dogs of each breed to be assigned the same name.
Note: Effective, February 1, 2008, AKC is testing a pilot program that allows for the registered name of a dog to contain up to (50) fifty characters. An additional $10 fee will be incurred when more than (36) thirty-six characters are chosen.
# Words and phrases that may not be included in a dog's name:
* Champion, champ, sieger or any other AKC title or show term, either spelled out or abbreviated.
* Obscenities and words derogatory to any race, creed or nationality or transliterations of such words.
* Kennel(s), male, stud, sire, bitch, dam and female.
* Breed names alone.
http://www.akc.org/reg/namingofdog.cfm
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