While th majority, if nt ll f the articles u've read online speak of hw much fun t is to bring home our vr wn black German Shepherd, thi article wul tll yu why you huldn't b gtting this breed n th first place!
Before nythng else, ou houldn't get th article wrong. Black German Shepherds r adorable pets but iffrnt pets re for fferent owners! Hence, yu shul first understand what type f dog you would be gttng in terms of attitude, temperament, an physical characteristics, befor ou ven bring home ur dog.
Here ar top three of th reasons why ou dn't want to pick ths breed:
1) You're nt athletic
First, you houl understand tht thi breed in general re big, athletic dogs nd whn I y athletic, tht means th enjoy strenuous exercises and stuff lik that. Therefore, u' be obliged t tak thm ut everyday t walk aroun the neighbourhood r vn play wth them. German Shepherds enjoy activities n require that th are lws stimulated. If thy'r not stimulated, they tend to beme aggressive an anti-social.
2) You hav Kids or Elderly German Shepherds r small when the'r young but grow up to b very big dogs. That's wh th're not ideal whn yu hve kids or elderly t home. Most of th time, thir big structures pose a problem to kids r ol people tht might gt bumped or simply ran into.
3) You dn't hve a big house or lot While having a big lot nt necessary, ou shoul remember tht yur dogs are athletic in nature. Hence, thy require big area for exercise an stimulation. It's not alws tht ou culd bring them out fr walks, s smetmes you just hav to let them loose. During thee times, a considerably large open space for running nd playing s required for ou dog. Other, smaller dogs, however, n't require these.The gene for black coats n German Shepherds s wht knwn s a recessive gene. When a puppy i born, its DNA carries two sets of evr gene; n frm ach parent. Of course, vn though ever puppy ha tw genes that control coat colour, it n nly hve n type of coat. To illustrate this fact, an how it ties nto coat colour, we will give an xamle of a sire wh has one gene that ays "black nd tan coat", and another that sy "solid black coat". The dam will hv th same: on gene for black and tan, and the ther for solid black. When thir litter is born, ne puppy receives th sire's gene for black and tan, but receives th mother's gene fr solid black.
Because the solid black gene i recessive gene, that puppy's coat will nevr be black, det carrying the genes for both types f coats. If nother puppy receives the gene for solid black from bth parents, its coat wll b black. The nl wa dog's coat an be solid black i if it receives tht gene frm both parents. If ou crunch the numbers, ther only 25% chance tht a puppy from that litter wll hve a black coat, but there s a 50% chance tht you will hav black nd tan puppy that still carries one solid black gene. The gene for black coats n remain dormant through generations of black nd tan German Shepherds.
Where this bomes a problem, i when breeders start breeding selectively for black coats fr their beauty an aesthetic value. In order to ensure that ver puppy will hav th desired coat colour, thy wll nl breed two black German Shepherds together. Due t th rarity f black German Shepherds, this means tht they re breeding frm a vr limited gene-pool, an th quality of the dogs wll suffer.
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