Tell us about yourself: I adopted a Dutch Shepherd mix (without knowing what she was) from the SPCA here in Victoria BC and am now trying to learn everything I can about this breed. My husband and I work from home most of the time so I thought it was time to get a puppy! We have his 2 boys here half the time and we wanted a nice family dog.
Sugar looks like a miniature Dutch Shepherd with floppy ears, and has every ounce of DS traits in her little body!
I hope to learn from other DS owners and share doggy experiences.
Tell us about yourself: I am a mom of 6 life forces - 2 kids and 3 dogs 1 hamster. I live in Ct. I have trained Ringsport and Agility and have 2 DS, one 15 and 7 and a Basset Hound Cookie who is 2
Tell us about yourself: I am currently the Secretary and Treasurer of the Dutch Shepherd Club of North America. We are the national breed club for Dutch Shepherds, and have the support of the Nederlandse Herdershonden Club in our endeavours to record the Dutch Shepherd breed in the United States and Canada through the American Kennel Club. dscna.com Join us on Facebook.
Tell us about yourself: I'm from Poland, I have four dogs: 9,5 y.o. cocker spaniel Sunday, two Pyrenean Shepherds Vigo (7 y.o.) and Brava (almost 3 y.o.) and Dutch Shepherd Eri (3,5 y.o.). We do agility, some frisbee and lots of tricks :).
Hello "Isis" and Panzer. Would you mind posting a short intro about yourself in 'new member announcements? Nothing aoutreageous, just so we know 'who' you are, please.
Schlussdibusti wrote:Panzer? German word for tank, who comes up with those names!
Well, if there is breeder out there who names her Dutch shepherd kennel after a city in Germany (Aachen), then maybe this tank came from that breeder?
Tell us about yourself: Had a GSD, am getting a DS puppy in a few weeks. Compete in agility, obedience, and cross train in tons of stuff. Found out about this site from the DS Rescue yahoo list.
I like the name! (I'm going by sound here, not so much meaning, tho little tank isn't such a bad reference...)
Welcome, Isis
leih merigian
Vrijheid's H'Geyser
Zodiac vom Younghaus (over the bridge)
Central VA (near Charlottesville)
It's never too late to have a happy childhood...
Thank you for the kind replies! All of the dogs in my house "speak" German, I have Working line German Shepherds and this is my first Dutch Shepherd! The direct translation for Panzer is "armored", although most of us know in conversation that a Panzer would be a German tank. I am very excited about my Dutch Shepherd! He is so much fun and trouble I can hardly stand it! He holds his own with the big dogs and is quite different than the GSD's at least when they were pups.
I will go to the intro thread and introduce myself...sorry about that!!!
Tell us about yourself: Dogs are my life, what can I say. GSDs primarily for nearly 50 years til bringing in my first DutchShep about 4 years ago. GSD rescue for 9 yrs, nearly 200 thru my home, rehabbed, adopted out. Been involved in AKC ob, herding, tracking, agility; Schutzhund-DVG; scent detection (HR-water)&narcotics, some patrol work. Mostly herding training at present on my little farm.
Isis wrote: The direct translation for Panzer is "armored", although most of us know in conversation that a Panzer would be a German tank.
While we are splitting hair over German translations, BTW not a smart thing to start with a native German..............
Since the word Panzer is a noun, the direct translation would be armour, shell, or tank.
Ah, thank you! I didn't know it was a noun, but I did know it meant something like armour or armored. Both of my folks are from Germany and I can understand and speak conversational German, but my grammar isn't always very good.
BTW..I didn't mean to start splitting hairs with you or anyone...I thought I'd explain why I named my Dutch Shepherd such a name, that's all. Sorry If I offended you.
Tell us about yourself: My name is Katrina, I have 1 dutch shepherd name Merlin. He is a handful and keeps things in our house very interesting and fun :)