This is Star ,the sire ,who is guarding his new litters.
A New Breed

White Shepherds are a newer breed and with many new breeds, there will always be skeptics. The whites have been around for less than one hundred years . There are many breeds that go back thousands of years. It is great to be part of something new.

Since our first White Shepherd Stella, ( whos mother was a beautiful tan shepherd), our dogs have been loyal,disease free,predictable, and honorable. With such a small gene pool, the whites are bred back to the original tan shepherds now and then. As expected of purebreds, of course there are weak links and problems that may surface in any litter in any breed, however with the genetic study done in 2000, the Whites have been proven to have about 1/2 of the genetic disorders found in regular tanned Purebred German Shepherds.In my opinion,this is only because the Whites are a recessive gene and have not been around long enough to create as many faults in the gene pool. There are beautiful tan German Shepherds, I know, I have had a few, but now that I have owned White Shepherds,there is no going back.

The Nursery Neptune has a litter of nine puppies.She has two males and seven females. This is her first litter and her puppies in these pictures are just two days old and were born on January 13 th 2006.

The Nursery
This is Venus with her litter of seven.She has four males and three females. Here, they are only one week old, born on January 10, 2006. She has her own heated house with a pet door to the outside. The yellow spot is just a reflection from the heat lamp.

The Whites

White Shepherds are said to be uncommon, but there are many different countries now that have breeders.
They came from a recessive gene that was found in 1879 in Germany. The first one in the United States was born in 1917. When the founder of the breed died in 1936 , the Nazis started to blame all problems of the tans to be the whites fault, like blindness, deafness, mental instability, sterility, degeneration, and loss of vigor. Like any rumours, they grew and now even today there are many skeptics.
The White Shepherd is slowly regaining its hold. In 1995 the American White Shepherd Association was formed and the White Shepherd Club of Canada to seek separation of the white dogs as a newly formed breed known as the White Shepherd.
Pictured above is Bailey who is an offspring from our sire , Northernwhites Star, and our dam , Ice Blue Venus. Bailey currently lives in Delta ,B.C.

The above picture is of Maddie ,who lives in Alberta ,from Venus and Star's last litter. I receive many beautiful photos of the puppies from previous litters and am pleased to see how well they are doing. Training is the key issue in getting the pleasure and reliance that you want from your pet. Perseverance during the growing years is sometimes difficult (as it is with children) but hard work and patience will reward you.These dogs demand alot of attention because they are a working breed by nature and the closest to the wolf descent as you want to get.They are great with children, perfect family dogs, the aggression levels in the whites are low, perhaps because of lack of inbreeding and overbreeding at this point.