The German Shepherd breed is in a unique place right now. It has become perhaps the most popular breed in the world, so there are dogs that suit the tastes of different enthusiasts across different fields and walks of life; ofcourse we humans are über competitive, we manipulate and control with both fringes, so exaggerations tend to occur in either direction. As dogs are bred closer to the chosen field of fancy, whether it’s some dogs from the show ring, or the breeding for high working/sporting competition on the international stage or schutzhund/IPO/IGP or whatever the pencil pushers decide to call it this week.
This consequently and systematically led to the reduction of the number of ancestors in the genepool, with certain popular dogs appearing over and over in pedigrees from either side of the family tree.
At Present, you can trace all the dogs competing in Germany to 5 dogs of the previous couple decades: Zamp, Vegas, Remo, Quenn and Ghandi. Literally every one of these males trace themselves back to ONE dog!
All these dogs appear, reappear and re-reappear in a shuffle of a deck of cards, shallowing the genepool by repeatedly breeding onto these dogs in any number of combos, giving these programs the integrity of a house made of that very deck of cards.
The T litter Nummer-Eins was born from this consideration back in 2018, and Tabasco was held back to further broaden the blood and add an actual breadth to the genepool, making Nummer-Eins another pioneer in yet another dimension of foresight in breeding.
Tabasco has now had her first litter and this breeding includes 3 excellent families, two somewhat related and one of quite distant blood, that have been tested for multiple generations to produce healthy, mentally well surrounded dogs, going back to VA Vesper, Motte, and Jilnanah Talka Marda through Pia v Patiala.
The puppies are very even, consistent in type and quite robust. We cross our fingers for the success of this breeding and a bright future for these little ones.
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