Crossing the Doberman and Rottweiler for color: Re: Re: Crossing of the dobie and rottie

» StrmDncr - Re: Re: Crossing of the dobie and rottie

In response to Re: Crossing of the dobie and rottie posted by WMSmith:

Wendy, for some reason your name rings a bell with me. Have you been published else where? Or do you show your dogs?
Anyway, I belong to several breed clubs and I have found that because few records were kept by breeders (breeding programs were very secret back then)who mixed breeds to create somethng new that the history gets a bit muddy. Though a lot of the information stated here is fairly close to the truth there is no way to know exactly what or how the mixes happened. Back when these breeds and many others were being formed breeders competed against each other for the best hunting, working or guarding dogs. Colors and type were secondary to the dogs abilities. Back in the early 1900's Breed clubs were forming and that was when color, type, size, etc. became just as important. The idea was to standardize each breed so that if you bred only Rotties you got Rotties. Anything other than the written standard was a fault. So naturally breeders were breeding for type, color and abilities. Temperament was not a factor at the time. Unfortunatly, Dobbies suffered for it in the 50's and 60's. Thankfully the Doberman clubs saw this and began to push their member to work on temperament. Todays Dobermans are not like the one from the 50's. They were skiddish, agressive dogs used for guarding. Though the trait is still there todays Doberman is a much calmer dog and a better family pet.
I looked up the standard and found an article on judging Dobermans which I think is very interesting. Here is the link
http://www.dpca.org/JEC/judging%20articl...

This will give you a good idea of how the Dobermans temperament has changed over the years.

-- posted by StrmDncr