Happy New Year Dog Lovers

Hello German Shepherd Dog Lovers...

This post is dedicated to all animal lovers - irrespective species and breed...
Let me wish you a very very Happy and Prosperous New Year. Now guess what the amazing fact about this year is?

Date of 1st Jan = 1-1-11 (d-m-y)
Date of 11th Jan = 11-1-11 (d-m-y)
Date of 1st Nov = 1-11-11 (d-m-y)
Date of 11th Nov = 11-11-11 (d-m-y)

Let's celebrate the start in a great way by resolving to be better and more responsible owners for our pets. Take time this first week of the year to ring in the Year 2011 with some new and precious habits that can benefit you and your pets.

1) Let's stop misusing check chains.
2) Let's stop abusive training methods
3) Let's make it a habit to talk to our dogs and cats and birds and any other pets every day at least once.
4) Let's hug them at least once a day
5) Let's Update our owner information!
6) Let's raise voice against animal cruelty

This New Start is a great time to indulge ourselves in becoming more valuable partners for our pets. I wish you all a very very Happy and Prosperous New Year - 2011

I wish you all the millions of reasons to be happy in the New Year. When you're lonely, I pray my Lord for one more pet for you. When the world seems empty, I wish you can hug your dog tight and you will get EVERYTHING back!

Have a Happy New Year and a marvelous time ahead!

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Opportunity opens for German Shepherd Dog Clubs and Organizations

About German Shepherd Dog reveals an opportunity for all German Shepherd Dog Non-Profit Organizations and Clubs to have a FREE listing of their organizations. About German Shepherd Dog team aims at eventually enlist all the Non-Profit organizations and clubs related to the German Shepherd Dog breed in the website. All they need to know are the perfect address contact details and name of the concerned persons related to a specific club or org. They expect the clubs and the organizations to provide the About German Shepherd Dog team to provide all necessary information in regard to any alteration in their concerned person and/or contact details.

GSD News: GSD Breed Standard Amendment

Good News German Shepherd Dog Lovers!

Good news is that the breed standard for German Shepherd Dog breed has been amended in terms of their coat types. Yes, GSD owners who are enthisiasts of the long coat variety of German Shepherds will be happy now to learn that the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) has approved adopting the long coat type as a distinctictive breed variety with effect from January 1, 2011. In the resolution of 2008 -2009 Federal Assembly, the SV had filed a motion with the FCI for adopting the coat type “Long Straight Topcoat with Undercoat” as a distinctive variety in the GSD breed. I feel really glad to inform you that the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI) has approved the motion filed by the SV with effect from January 1, 2011.

What does this mean?

By approving this motion of the SV, the FCI allows the specific variety of German Shepherd Dog breed with “Long Straight Topcoat with Undercoat” hair type:

1) To participate in the breed surveys
2) To participate in the breed specialty shows across the globe.
3) To get entitled in the breeding program officially, subject to certain principles to be maintained.

Check out in details information on the approval of “Long Straight Topcoat with Undercoat” hair type by FCI. Click on GSD breed Standard Amendement.

World Seiger Results 2010

As usual the German Shepherd Dog Club of West Germany (e.i. SV) had just sponsored the world's largest German Shepherd conformation specialty show this year... 2010! It was a real blast like every year. This year (2010) the German Seiger Show or The World Seiger Show was held in Nürnberg (Easy Credit Stadion) between September 3rd to September 5th, 2010 and there were around 1500 German Shepherds and an incredible number of 30,000 spectators bustled up the show arena. In 2009 is also a remarkable year! In the year 2009 at Ulm, Germany the Sieger Show had been held for the first time.

Are you looking for the show results? Check out the detailed show results for German seiger show 2010 and results for German seiger show 2009. Don't miss out checking the entire report for the world seiger 2010. You can find Links to Other Titles too! You can also find the detailed results of GSD breed at Cruft Show this year at Cruft show 2010 or here.

Congratulations to all the winners at world seiger 2010!

What more you need to know about GSD

Did you know... a white German Shepherd dog named Daz has been crowned to be the world's loudest dog?
Did you know that there are tons of technical words which can be found in German Shepherd Dog dictionary?
Did you know you can learn a lot about the GSD breed from German Shepherd Dog FAQ?

Starting from German Shepherd Dog standard to anything about German Shepherds, you can get to know more about the breed. If you want to be a better owner for your dog you need to know your shepherd better. We have just stepped out of the alfa phase and entered the beta version with our GSD portal - About German Shepherd Dog.

About German Shepherd Dog is my dream child for which I have been gathering information from rare of the rarest sources. You can find any information on the breed on this website, which is run by me and my team - a group of GSD people who have been studying on the breed for years now. This makes me feel that we can make this GSD portal the largest online resource for information on German Shepherd Dog.

We have come up with an opportunity for owners, breeders, trainers and any person related to the breed to promote their profile or kennel or name through this German Shepherd Dog website. If you are willing promote yourself and your bloodline you can write on this website about the breed where you can have your own article page where you can put the link of your blog or website in your Author Bio. You articles will be featured under the section "Featured Articles". Check out our FAQ page to know more about this feature.

We are in the beta stage and we are developing gradually. GSD people are cordially invited to our website. Thank you...

About German Shepherd Dog - A Website Dedicated to GSD Lovers and Their Dream Breed

Howdy friends! I have not posted anything for long - I admit. Well, let me tell you that I have a good news for all German Shepherd Dog lovers. I am honored that my blog "German Shepherd Dog Information" has been highly acclaimed and I have got waves of praises from you guys.

I have received emails from many of you, and many of you have sent me multiple emails praising me for my highly researched work that I have done with this blog. This motivated me in purchasing my own domain name and hiring a host. Friends I have created my own website About German Shepherd Dog.

The design of this website has been done by my friend's web solution firm - "Aribiss". Since the website is a dynamic website and involves tremendous volume of coding, it is taking him a little time to complete. Although it is apparently completed, still there are certain designing issues which requires to be done. The work is in process.

About the official website of "About German Shepherd Dog"
About German Shepherd Dog is an online portal dedicated to German Shepherd lovers across the globe. I have been constantly working on this website and aiming to make it the largest online resource for information on German Shepherd Dog breed. I am sure I can do it... your encouragements and fountains of praises have always been the most effective catalyst for me.

Please email me or post your comments and give me your feedback about the newly launched website, especially dedicated to you and your dream breed. I know you will find a few programmatic errors in this website. Everything will be fixed eventually.

STAY - Allie Larkin's First Novel

This is a press release about a novel "STAY", written by Allie Larkin, one of my dog lover friends who lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband, Jeremy. The novel features two German Shepherds, ARGO and STELLA, and a three-legged cat. You can find the pic of majestic ARGO in the cover of STAY itself. This book is a must-have collection in the library of all GSD lovers. The novel delineates the life of a young woman whose friendship with lovely black German Shepherd helps her recover from a broken heart. Using her own camera, Allie snapped a few shots of her beautiful dog, ARGO, and as soon as we saw his trusting eyes, we realized that ARGO was our star.

I wish all the very best to my friend Allie for her first novel STAY that has been published June, 2010.

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“Smart and with emotional depth, this is a cut above the romantic comedies that flood the market every summer.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Larkin debuts with a funny and touching story about love, loss, and dog ownership.” —Publishers Weekly

STAY - a novel
By Allie Larkin

Your browser may not support display of this image. There are many ways to get over heartbreak—Ben & Jerry’s and marathon episodes of reality TV are common survival tools—but buying a hundred-pound dog over the Internet surely isn’t one of them. In her debut novel STAY (On sale: June 10, 2010), Allie Larkin proves that sometimes life needs to get more complicated before it can get better.

Savannah “Van” Leone has been in love with Peter Clarke ever since she literally fell head over heels in front of him on the first day of class. Now, six years later, instead of standing across from him at the altar, she’s standing behind her best friend Janie, as Maid of Honor, trying to mask her heartache and guilt as Janie marries the man of Van’s dreams. Before her mother passed away from cancer, she told Van never to let Peter go, but as Van watches the couple exchange vows, she knows that her fairy tale ending was never meant to be. After the wedding, Van drowns her sorrows in Kool-Aid–vodka cocktails and reruns of Rin Tin Tin and does what to many seems absurd: She buys a German Shepherd over the Internet.

Together, Van and her new companion, Joe—a clumsy, slobbering hundred-pound beast that only responds to commands in Slovak—begin to mend the pieces of her shattered heart and get her life back on track. And it doesn’t hurt that Joe’s vet is a rugged sweetheart with floppy blond hair and a winning smile, who brings soup when she’s sick and always holds the door open for her. But, when Peter gets back from his honeymoon, Van is forced to come to terms with her new and old feelings in a decision that affects all the people she’s ever loved.

Warm and witty, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, STAY is a big-hearted, unforgettable debut about friendship, love, and a German Shepherd named Joe.

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About the Author:

Allie Larkin lives in Rochester, New York, with her husband, Jeremy, their two German Shepherds, Argo (featured on the cover of STAY) and Stella, and a three-legged cat. She is the cofounder of TheGreenists.com, a site dedicated to helping readers take simple steps toward going green. STAY is her first novel.

STAY
By Allie Larkin
Dutton

* $25.95 * ISBN: 978-0-525-95171-1

www.allielarkinwrites.com

DFS Crufts 2010 Breed and Class Results For German Shepherd Dogs - Pastoral Group

Friends....The Cruft Dog Show is on! The world's most prestigious dog show the most visited one that witnesses lacs of spectators and thousands of contestants is the Cruft Dog show. The Cruft Show 2010 is the 120th annual event which started on Thursday, March 11 and will be on till Sunday, March 14. The first day of the Cruft Dog Show was the for working and pastoral breeds. Held at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre, UK, the Cruft Dog Show 2010 is featuring 180 dog breeds composed of 28,000 distinctive specimens. Here are the results of Breed and Class for the German Shepherd Dog (Pastoral group), judged by Mr. R W Kinsey. Check out the results below...

Breed Results

• BEST OF BREED

CLOKELLYS LAGOS (Dog)
Owner: MRS C KEEN

• BEST PUPPY

VENEZE ERIK (Dog)
Owner: MR & MRS J & P CULLEN

• DOG CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE

CLOKELLYS LAGOS (Dog)
Owner: MRS C KEEN

• BITCH CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE

HAZROH QUAXIE (Bitch)
Owner: MS D, MR R B, MRS JJ & MISS HJ NELSON, WATSON & DO

• RESERVE DOG CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE

CH OLGAYANS HOTEI (Dog)
Owner: MR B E & MRS O BARLOW

• RESERVE BITCH CHALLENGE CERTIFICATE

CH MASCANI ODESSA (Bitch) Owner: MS M LAKIN

Class Results

Veteran - Dog
Entries: 4 Abs: 0

• 1st - CH MIRRWOOD SCHIFO AT REYANHEATH (MR & MRS REYNOLDS)
• 2nd - JOTANN ADONIS (MR L & MRS J ASKHAM)
• 3rd - MARLISH CADEAU CDEX (MRS R PRICE)
• Res - AMAZING WARRIOR OF ASTRADINE (MRS A G SHAW)

Special Puppy - Dog
Entries: 5 Abs: 0

• 1st - VENEZE ERIK (MR & MRS J & P CULLEN)
• 2nd - SILKENWOOD MIKAEL (MRS H A & MISS S Y BIBBY & GUNNER)
• 3rd - SUZDANS ERASURE BLUE (MR A J & MRS S P FORMAN)
• Res - ANCHAZ BRAX (MRS M HUMBERSTON)
• VHC - CHALKSVILLE SPIRIT CATCHER (MR S P THOMAS)

Special Junior - Dog
Entries: 10 Abs: 2

• 1st - MASCANI IKON (MRS S HUTCHINSON)
• 2nd - SILVERLEIGH VERMER (MR R & MRS M DAVIES)
• 3rd - KIPLYN ATLAS (MESDAMES & MR J MCCOWLIFF, EASTWOOD, REILLEY & HAY)
• Res - CHALKSVILLE DARK LORD AT PADAWAN (MR G P HAINE)
• VHC - ZAKASIA FENNOR (MISS D & MR R SLADE & BALL)

Yearling - Dog
Entries: 15 Abs: 0

• 1st - CLYNALWIN'S GIOVANNI (MISS C DENNETT)
• 2nd - IOLANDA QUIDO (MRS I JERMEY)
• 3rd - RAZERALICH BLAZE (MRS M MCCOUBREY)
• Res - PARHILEON VOM ICE (MISS D S FINNIGAN)
• VHC - LORLEACH LEON (MRS ALLERTON)

Post Graduate - Dog
Entries: 20 Abs: 2

• 1st - IOLANDA INZZAGHI IROK (MRS E SCOTT)
• 2nd - SHERNAA VODKA (MR & MISS PRINCE & AYLING)
• 3rd - NIKONIS ARTHUR (MRS R I & MR M J ANDREWS & REES)
• Res - AIEKO FROM PETERWELL (J, C, G K & L ADAMSON, JACKSON & MUNKLEY)
• VHC - TIRGRAM TIM VOM HAUS DEXEL (MRS M DAVIES)

Limit - Dog
Entries: 12 Abs: 0

• 1st - ROBUNAS VARGAS (MR R MCPHEE)
• 2nd - ROMAINVILLE MONTEIRO (MRS K GEORGE)
• 3rd - IOLANDA BUGATTI AT SAROCAL (MRS T, MRS I & MISS S JERNEY & SMITH)
• Res - FAYRELANDER WALTZ IN NELLINKA (MR M & MR C & MRS K PUCKNELL & AUSTEN)
• VHC - BLACKTORS BULAN AT PENNYBECK (MR & MRS G S JONES)

Open - Dog
Entries: 15 Abs: 4

• 1st - CLOKELLYS LAGOS (MRS C KEEN)
• 2nd - CH OLGAYANS HOTEI (MR B E & MRS O BARLOW)
• 3rd - BALKO VOM GLEISENAUER SCHLOSS (MRS T J HILL)
• Res - VENEZE CONNER (MR & MRS J & P CULLEN)
• VHC - CH NIKONIS COLIN (MRS N G FARLEY)

Working Trial - Dog
Entries: 1 Abs: 0

1st - JAKE AT JOTUNHEIM SCHH3 CDEX UDEX WDEX (MRS A E TOHME)

Good Citizen Dog Scheme - Dog
Entries: 15 Abs: 0

• 1st - IOLANDA BUGATTI AT SAROCAL (MRS T, MRS I & MISS S JERNEY & SMITH)
• 2nd - CLYNALWIN'S GIOVANNI (MISS C DENNETT)
• 3rd - IOLANDA MASERATI (MRS T, MRS I & MISS S JERNEY & SMITH)
• Res - FOURANFASS LE DAUPHIN (MR P G & MRS H C H CORKIN)
• VHC - TRACELYN RUSSELL WATSON (MS M J CRISPIN)

Veteran - Bitch
Entries: 12 Abs: 4

• 1st - DELNAT RUMOURS (MRS E LOWE)
• 2nd - MILLJOHN WHO'S THAT GIRL AT JOTANN (MRS J WILLIAMS)
• 3rd - STARKSTROM ISOLETTA (MRS P J EDGINGTON)
• Res - RHEINMEISTER CHI-KI-MI (MR E W & MRS C A SPELMAN)
• VHC - MILLJOHN BEWITCHED (MRS J S JEFFORD)

Special Puppy - Bitch
Entries: 4 Abs: 2

• 1st - CHALKSVILLE SPIRIT OF KINTARO (MR T& MRS S MULLARD & BARNES)
• 2nd - ANCHAZ BARETTA (MRS A & MR M WALDEN)

Special Junior - Bitch
Entries: 12 Abs: 1

• 1st - DRAYCORE CHILLI (MR R & MRS J KIRBY)
• 2nd - KORZWIN MALTA (MISS H GIBSON)
• 3rd - NORWULF ZONDA (MISS K JONES)
• Res - SIMONITE CHYNA SILK (MRS C THOMAS)
• VHC - KYMARA'S CHIARO DI RIKARDA (MISS S MURRAY)

Yearling - Bitch
Entries: 17 Abs: 3

• 1st - JASUETER GOLDEN GRACE (MR P J, MRS S J & MISS J S BINDEN)
• 2nd - IOLANDA QUINA (MRS I JERMEY)
• 3rd - ALL ONE SUIT (MRS L E HAMILTON)
• Res - MERJUKE'S HOPE (MISS S & MR A WIDDOP & EASBY)
• VHC - SAMSTAG JANA (MRS S E WORLEY)

Post Graduate - Bitch
Entries: 16 Abs: 6

• 1st - CERYSTAR LOTTI (MISS D S FINNIGAN)
• 2nd - NIKONIS YERA (MRS N G FARLEY)
• 3rd - OLGAYANS LORELEI (MR B E & MRS O BARLOW)
• Res - SILVERLEIGH QSHELLEY AT KOMODO (MR & MRS A F ROBERTS)

Limit - Bitch
Entries: 14 Abs: 2

• 1st - HAZROH QUAXIE (MS D, MR R B, MRS JJ & MISS HJ NELSON, WATSON & DO)
• 2nd - WILLOWDALE KEIFA (MRS G SHEFFIELD)
• 3rd - IOLANDA ESPRIT VON NORVISTEG (MR H WRIGHT)
• Res - AVANTI STARR (MR M ROBINSON)
• VHC - VONMEISTER FANTA (MR R & MRS P POWDRILL)

Open - Bitch
Entries: 13 Abs: 4

• 1st - CH MASCANI ODESSA (MS M LAKIN)
• 2nd - BINE VOM GLEISENAUER SCHLOSS (IMP DEU) (MRS S E WORLEY)
• 3rd - CH LARARTH SASSY (MR D C, MRS S L & MR B BOWEN & WADLOW)
• Res - KORZWIN JILLI JW (MRS L & MR K BARCLAY & WILLIAMSON)
• VHC - CH LINSDOWN GEORGIA SHCM (MR T& MRS S MULLARD & BARNES)

Working Trial - Bitch
Entries: 1 Abs: 0

• 1st - TYGUARD CHILLI AT MANPOL CDEX UDEX WDEX ( GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE)

Good Citizen Dog Scheme - Bitch
Entries: 7 Abs: 0

• 1st - MERJUKE'S HOPE ( MISS S & MR A WIDDOP & EASBY)
• 2nd - STARKSTROM ISOLETTA (MRS P J EDGINGTON)
• 3rd - CHANNBELLE CHINA GIRL (MR D W & MRS L BALL)
• Res - NETSRIK IMAGINATION (MISS K TAYLOR)

Note: All owners of the above mentioned dogs are requested to provide us with the pictures of their dogs qualified in DFS Cruft, 2010. we will be happy to incorporate the pictures with their show results. Many many congratulations to all owners and dogs above qualified in the ring of DFS Cruft 2010.

Check out what have happened in all the four days of Cruft Dog show, 2010

How to handle an Overly Aggressive German Shepherd Dog

If you are a lover of German Shepherd Dog breed, chances are that you have always liked to meet new German Shepherd owners and mingle with new dogs. By doing so, I am sure that you have, at least once in your life time, met shepherds with strange behavior. Overly aggressive German Shepherd Dogs are menace to not only the owners but also the other animals and friends of their owners they meet. The fact is it’s due to the lack of knowledge of the owners that many shepherds become aggressive. Well, aggression is a genetic trait that stimulates the protective drive of the breed. Over aggression in German Shepherd Dogs is a psychological imbalance and a serious fault in the breed, being a deviation from the standard of GSD behavior.

Now this topic is all about tips and tricks to handle an overly aggressive German Shepherd Dog. The piece includes some points that may help you make your German Shepherd Dog learn good habits. The process of teaching should start at the very young age, but since most dogs start displaying aggressive behavior in the later age you need to be well equipped with the technical know-how of teaching good things that can be applied at any point of time in his/ her life. Remember German Shepherd Dog is a very intelligent breed and has the tendency to please their master. This is a very important thing to understand. Make your dog please you and show that you are pleased when he shows desirable behavior. Most GSD owners, I have come across, cannot understand how to get their overly aggressive shepherds to learn good habits. Dogs are not humans and understand things in a very different ways. So often, when an untrained trainer is training your German Shepherd Dog he is actually contributing to the behavioral problem, thereby making them worse! My first tip to solving this problem is to find the right trainer, who knows how to communicate with and train a German Shepherd Dog with all full proved techniques.

Here are four German Shepherd Dog training tips to give a try before making the decision to have them put down.

1. Most important problem area: Unscientific breeding is the most important problem area that needs to be spared a serious thought over. Overly aggressive German Shepherd Dog all through his life shows warning signs that it is not like the other friendly canine companions. Choosing the right German Shepherd Dog breeder is very important. Both the fear based aggression and dominant aggression are due to poor breeding, while territorial aggression and predatorial aggression in German Shepherds are normal and desirable to a certain degree.

2. Training sessions: To start off with you need to boost up the confidence and make your dog feel the sense of security while setting the training session. Overly aggressive German Shepherd Dogs usually have some kind of fear psychologically week with low degree of hardness trait in their character. With lack of confidence and psychological resiliency to unpleasant and strange situations you cannot solve such behavioral problems. I would suggest you to create a perfect environment around the training zone. You can invite a few friends of yours whom your dog knows well. With the gradual passage of time you can invite a stranger along with your friends and go on for stroll in the park with them and your dog. Gradually increase the number of friends and stranger. This is a very important socialization technique and should be a slow process. By making slightest haste in this you may unknowingly contribute to your shepherd’s behavioral problem instead of solving it. This will pull down his stress level and make him feel comfortable.

3. Mingling with other dogs: Most aggressive dogs cannot tolerate other animals within their vicinity, which makes them show aggressive behavior towards them. This problem in the German Shepherd Dog personality can be solved, though not a very easy task. Mingling session has to be at as soon as possible. Keep your dog on the leash in a region having a few other more confident and calm dogs. Hold the leash tight and as soon as he shows signs of aggression, just give him a jolt with a sharp “NO”. Repeat it whenever he shows signs of anger. Keep a constant eye on him and you can predict how he will be behaving on a specific situation a few seconds prior to he actually shows the aggression signs. As soon as you can predict his behavior, give him a jolt with a sharp “NO”. It will take a lot of time to socialize your German Shepherd Dog with other dogs. You need to be patient and consistent and handle him correctly.

4. Keep your dog away from other aggressive adult dogs: Remember dogs are pack animals and they live a pack life. Their specific behaviors are usually the resultant products of staying together within the pack, which is very natural. If they do not consider their owner as the pack leader they will take it upon themselves to become the leader of the pack which tourn out to be quite detrimental. If you have a new addition to your kennel, keep the new dog or puppy away from the other aggressive members of your kennel. Studies have shown that dogs and puppies that are in contact with the other aggressive mates usually become aggressive as times pass by. Get the new dog surround with cool tempered, confident, well mannered, playful dogs with positive behavioral traits.

To conclude with I would like to say that your aggression towards the dog will never solve the problem of aggression your dogs. So don’t lose your cool on your dogs. You have to be patient and tactical enough to handle a overly aggressive German Shepherd Dog. A German Shepherd Dog who have been battered can turn out to be overly aggressive at to humans. Here's how to help battered German Shepherd Dogs regain confidence.