White Swiss Shepherd Dog

White is a typical color of sheepdog breeders. The White Swiss Shepherd Dog is a German Shepherd with white hair. Initially, the German Shepherd breeders had many white-haired dogs. Subsequently, he became the Swiss Shepherd and then, thanks to his color, the White Swiss Shepherd Dog.

Before the 1900s, it appears that purebred white Shepherds were raised at the royal court of the Habsburgs in Alsace-Lorraine.

It was in 1913 that the first Swiss White Shepherd Dog was entered in the studbook and in 1933 that the color white was banned for German Shepherds. The human being is sometimes strange and illogical and, following this ban, most of the white puppies of the time were killed at birth. The color then justified the massacre.

After this questionable decision, the white dogs were saved from death thanks to the North Americans. In California, in 1964, the first White Shepherd club was formed to preserve and defend the breed. After having imported the first dog to American territory in 1967, Mrs. Agatha Burch saw the birth of Lobo White Burch on March 5, 1966. The White German Shepherd Dog not yet being removed from his breed book, the American Kennel Club (AKC) could thus register this white dog in the Swiss studbook under “White German Shepherd Dog”.

It was not until 2003 that the SCC Federation officially recognized the White Germain Shepherd Dog breed.

This magnificent Shepherd luckily survived the massacre that followed the abolition of the color white in German Shepherd. A very questionable and perfectly unnecessary decision, this magnificent dog with a pure white coat is an excellent life companion and could not have existed without the help of some breeders with a good conscience and big heart.