Do WHITE german shepherds(alsatians) have a specific name?
In Australia there is a white Shepherd dog known as the White Swiss Shepherd which is recognised by the ANKC. FCI Standard No. 347 dated 18/12/2002 Adopted ANKC May 2008 Group: Group 5 (Working Dogs) History: In the U.S.A. and Canada white shepherd dogs have gradually become accepted as a distinct breed. The first dogs of this breed were imported into Switzerland in the early 70s. The American male Lobo, whelped on 5th March, 1966, can be considered as the progenitor of the breed in Switzerland. The descendants of that male registered with the Swiss Stud Book (LOS) and other white shepherd dogs imported from the U.S.A. and Canada, gradually multiplied. There exists now a big number of white shepherd dogs, pure bred, over several generations, distributed throughout Europe. For that reason, since June 1991, these dogs have been registered as anew breed with the appendix of the Swiss Stud Book (LOS).
If the white pooch has 2 parents registered as GSDs then the pooch is a white GSD – just as a black pooch with 2 parents registered as GSDs is a black GSD, and a wolf-sable pooch with 2 parents registered as GSDs is a sable GSD. German Shepherd Dog is the literal English translation of the breed’s true name, which is deutsche Schäferhund. Although fanciers of the whites kid themselves that one day their pooches will be accepted as a breed named the White German Shepherd Dog or the American White, it will never happen unless they out-cross to some other white breed then select for 6-7 generations to regain a true-breeding breed-type. But Yanks are not noted for that sort of patience, so those fanciers went to the unrecognised UKC, thereby forever cutting themselves off from the AKC, which is the only internationally-accepted KC in the USofA. However, in Switzerland a group of fanciers there patiently worked with the Swiss KC and had it agree that whenever they produced a pedigree where
