Breed History Questions

[buidelwolf]

As I understand the CsV breeds gean pool today is based on 22 pure GSD and 4 wolves (totaly 26 individuals)

Hi Mikael,

Yes, I suppose so, according to the family tree. Unless in the "early years" some unregistered dogs contributed too. Could be possible of course. Maybe Margo or other experts have additional info?

In itself these numbers should be healthy enough,

certainly in comparison with the Saarloos, of which the gene pool is based upon only two wolves and one or two GSD's. One should also be aware of the fact that many recognised dog breeds of today are based on less ancestors than our breed. However breeders have to remain extra cautious with the choices they make for breeding couples, but that should be evident. Unfortunately, occasionally we still see otherwise.

By the way, I'm not a breeder myself, nor a breeding expert. I just love the matter and like statistics regarding our breed, search things out etc.

Regards

[Mikael]

Originally Posted by buidelwolf

Hi Mikael,

Yes, I suppose so, according to the family tree. Unless in the "early years" some unregistered dogs contributed too. Could be possible of course. Maybe Margo or other experts have additional info?

In itself these numbers should be healthy enough...

Regards

Yes compered to many other breeds this is a high number of dog-individuals for a start of a breed...

But the 4 wolves is probably related and the 22 pure GSD certainly are, therefore the true gene pool is much smaler So I realy did hope it was 42 GSD and not less

Any way it is good info for us all to know, especially breeders

Thanks again, regards / Mikael