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Welcome to Majestic White Shepherds, USA... Home of Champions and Grand Champions!


We are a small White Shepherd breeding family located in Upstate NY.  We live on 7 acres surrounded by mountains and wildlife.`

Our mission is to improve the White Shepherd Breed. To create a 5 generation line disease free White Shepherds, WS and White Swiss Shepherds, BBS

Our goal is to produce healthy dogs in body and mind who can live  long disease free lives.   They will be great companions, service or  competition dogs.  We focus on health and temperament . We breed only  healthy dogs who can pass along worthy traits, such as a solid temperament, correct conformation and excellent  pigment. All our dogs are DNA tested, non carrier on any detectable diseases. Only those dogs that pass the health and temperament test are introduced into our breeding program. My love for this breed was stimulated by my mentor, Scarlett Sanders of Foxhunt White Shepherds. To her I owe much of my knowledge, hands on experience and a very successful first breeding in December 2017.`

   



Foxhunt Lust for Life is my first love, he inspired us on educating ourselves  about the evolution of this breed. It is indeed an evolution since the White Shepherds were not meant to be a breed of its own at the origin. It is because of politics and the Parent Club's definition of beauty that the White Shepherds became outcast from their original breed. You may ask, what is the original breed? It is the German Shepherd dog. To tell you about the origin of the German Shepherd is beyond the scope of this introduction. I will only point out that the German Shepherd creator , a German Cavalry Captain , Rittmeister von Stephanitz bought what he felt was the benchmark  prototype of what a working dog should be: intelligent, strong with endurance, loyal and beautiful. Around 1899,  he found all these prerequisites in Horand von Grafrath  who he renamed  Hektor von Schwaben.  Stephanitz declared him the  very first German Shepherd dog. He then founded the Society for the German Shepherd Dog or in German , Verein für Deutsche Schäferhunde . He then proceeded to mate Hektor with other "worthy" mates. Among them there were white dogs.  This picture was taken from his book Der Deutsche Schaferhund in Wort und Bild 1911 edition. 




The writing under the picture literally translates to: "long coated stock german shepherd dog". It also happens to be white. I believe this is how the white , long coat gene of German Shepherd dogs was introduced into the German Shepherd breed. Through the decades the German Dog Club in Germany and still today American Kennel Club ( AKC ) disqualifies the White color coat from conformation and beauty competition.   Thanks to  the work of a selected group of people in the USA, Canada and Europe that the  White coated German dog survives today. In Europe it has become a different breed. For the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI ) or  International Canine Federation is identified as the White Swiss Shepherd, Berge Blanc Suisse ( BBS). In the US, as far as AKC is concerned, these dogs  are still white coated German Shepherds. On the other hand UKC and AWSA have recognized them as a separate breed , but in the US they are still called simply White Shepherds. Since the USA is not an FCI country,  if a BBS is imported in the USA it can be registered as a White Shepherd with UKC and AWSA or as a German Shepherd with AKC.

The history is fascinating and I will tell in greater details in other parts. At the moment I invite you to get to know us and to be patient as we build our website.

We have grown since I first introduced Majestic White Shepherds. We have had both BBS, FCI registered litters and UKC registered litters.

All the dogs are currently Grand Champions and some have multiple working titles..

Sincerely

Ven
with Lusty, Luke, Arezzo, Toven, Bliss, Juliet, Stella, Jazmin, Tala and Lexi