Breed Basics: German Shepherds, SLC, UT – Rocky Mountain Pooper Scoopers
The German Shepherd got its’ humble start in Germany in 1899 when a man–Captain Von Stephanitz–wanted an alpha dog of sorts, a herding dog, to be exact. He traveled throughout several regions in Germany in search of the “perfect” dog(s) that he would later breed. These dogs would go on to later be used by the Germans in World War I and when the war came to end, many of these dogs returned to the United States with new owners. Let’s go back for just a moment, however, to a time before the war when those living in the United ...
