Old German Shepherd Dog

Some old German landraces of cattle dogs, were and are called Altdeutscher Schäferhund (Old German Shepherd Dog), too.

He roared past a white four-runner with out-of-state plates, a middle-aged couple in the front, and a pair of big old German shepherd dogs looking out the windows in the back.

At the time, all other herding dogs in Germany were referred to by this name; they thus became known as Altdeutsche Schäferhunde or Old German Shepherd Dogs.

Before Breeders of the long-hair variation of the German Shepherd had founded own Kennel Clubs and had called the long-haired- hair variation "Old German Shepherd Dog", too.

Many German herdsmen continued to breed their dogs for working ability rather than to the new breed standard, and their remaining non-standardised working dogs were called Altdeutscher Schäferhund, or "Old German Shepherd Dog".

So shepherds and farmers and other owners of the extincting landraces had to find another name and renamed the Altdeutschen Schäferhunde (Old German Shepherd Dogs) into Altdeutsche Hütehunde (Old German Herding Dogs).