German Shepherd Dachshunds

There are some hybrid crossbreeds that make sense. But there are some that just don't do it for me.

What would you get if you crossed the most popular dog breed in Germany, the German Shepherd Dog, with one of the other popular dogs in that area, the Dachshund (teckel)?

If you crossed a German Shepherd Dog that looked like Rin Tin Tin with a teckel, after back-crossing to the German Shepherd Dog, would you get a dog that looks like a modern American show type shepherd?

Masson & retrieverman

Have you had time to think about the colors over in the post on retrieverman about early German Shepherd Dogs?

Black, Grizzle, and reddish brown (solid colored or "with tan") and
WHITE, white with patches of color, brindle (with or without "tan markings").

NOT LISTED: sable, saddleback, mantle coated.

What is listed, can you see them one by one in your mind's eye?

Can you write out the alleles?

Today, German Shepherd Dogs can be black, but I am told that it usually a recessive black.

So we have:
1. solid black
2. solid white
3. solid reddish brown
4. 'solid' grizzle

5. black with tan markings
6. grizzle with tan markings
7. reddish brown with tan markings

8. white with large patches of color
9. white with large patches of color, and tan markings
10. "white" with tan markings,

11. brindle
12. brindle with tan (just writing what it says - he might mean brindle long mantle and tan markings? a black and tan with brindle? - but I have seen dogs with both black & tan and tan markings, and the only brindle was in the tan markings. Merle will just work on the black mantle. Does Masson include Merle with brindle? Maybe this is something unique to breeds that I don't know well?)

I don't claim to be into color - it seems to be the craze - but not my thing. I have a simple answer: so long as the color doesn't hurt or disadvantage the dog, whatever the color is, is okay with me.

But this is a bit of a different case. This is really about: What happened to the German Shepherd Dog?

I do NOT know about the inheritance of grizzle - so I am going to leave that out, there is plenty to chew on without it.

We have tan markings on: black, reddish brown, (grizzle), "white", white piebald, and brindle. Masson mentions it twice, once as "with tan" and once as "tan markings".

So what colors and patterns do we have?

OT History Tells

I once asked a history major why anyone would write a NEW history book? - why not just reprint the old history books? - it's not like history has changed any. His reply was one of my few personal favorites, to quote:

"They buy new history books all the time. When a new administration gets in power, they want the books to tell their point of view. ------- work to get into power just so they can change the books. Right now there are people re-writing text books in case ------ gets elected, then they can sell the system books that agree with his point of view." (I quoted it the best that I remember but who remembers perfectly? I left out names.)

At that point, I decided that HE KNEW HISTORY. Takes something special to impress me, that was it. He understood the context that the SUBJECT of history comes from.

My take on history is that it is often fantasy for people who hate fantasy.

But it is made up by people who not only like fantasy - they spin it themselves.

If you read the book "Please Understand Me" (Briggs-Myer personality quiz) you will remember the iNtuitive/Sensible split.

Intuitives like fantasy; Sensibles do not - unless iNtuitives tell them that it non-fiction.

I think history is fantasy for people who don't like fantasy.

I have these categories of history:

1. Personal History - I was there, I heard it, or read the news, or saw it at the time it happened - before it could be re-done into "historical fact".

2. His-story, Her-story, Their-story: - somebody alive at the time it happened, told me what they heard or saw.

3. Hear say: somebody heard it and re-said it, someone else heard & said, an so on until it reached me, but it happened in the lifetime of people who are still alive now.

4. It happened before anyone alive now was born.

And older than that? How do you erase something written in stone? I saw on TV about how:

The ancient Egyptians wrote about their Pharaoh, and they craved statues. Other Pharaohs came along, and changed the names on the writings, and de-faced the statues of people they didn't like.