Temperament

Our Champions and non-Champions will protect their families by dying if necessary to prevent harm to the children, grown-ups, other pets in the family.  Our Champions and non-Champions are the best baby-sitter and protectors you will ever find for your children or other pets.

Temperament:  (German Shepherd Personality) People unfamiliar with the "true temperament" of the German Shepherd like we breed here at Keystone GSD, think the Shepherd as a breed is vicious, hates and attacks children and is dangerous to their owners.  The opposite is true!

The below story is true:

In March of 2000, we were building our house on twenty-wooded acres, which is currently the home of Keystone German Shepherds.  We did much of the work ourselves, and after my real job, I would drive out to the property to do construction work.  This particular occasion, I was on the property installing hardwood floors.  A young Champion Heidelberg’s Oregon V Burmak accompanied me.  Oregon became bored with my installation work and he decided to find another room with a cool place to lie down on the concrete subfloor.

I stepped outside the back door to rinse out a bucket when out of the woods two very large rottweilers came running straight towards me.  I instantly could tell that these were not friendly dogs, and that they were intent upon attacking me.  With one rottweiler, I could possibly defend myself, but with two, I was in real trouble.

Suddenly, I felt Oregon brush across my leg as he charged to meet these two large muscular dogs.  He slammed into the shoulder of the closest one knocking him over, and then Oregon latched onto the face of the other with a guttural growl.  The swiftness of Oregon ’s attack unnerved the much heavier dogs.  Unsettled they ran back into the woods from which they had materialized.  Oregon was in hard pursuit.

After I processed all that had taken place in a matter of seconds, my thoughts and concerns were redirected to Oregon .  Before I could call him, a terrible noise came from the woods.  I heard dogs growling, crying, screaming, and then silence.  Then Oregon appeared unscathed from the woods in an extremely proud trot.  Naturally, I gave him the royal treatment for the rest of the day.

I am convinced that I would have been severely injured or worse if Oregon had not been there to protect me.

For additional Heidelberg heroics, click here.

Below are pictures of us exercising our dogs while at dog shows.  Our competitors use exercise pens for this purpose because they are afraid that their dogs would run off.  And, from what I have seen, they would!  Their dogs are miserable at shows while our shepherds enjoy the adventure.  If our dogs ever wander too far, all we have to do is call them and they happily come to us. 

Abilene TX in 2004 at a dog show.
Amarillo, TX show playtime.	Playing before show time!

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Last modified: February 10, 2008