Schönheit German Shepherds

Breeders of top pedigree, working-line German Shepherds from Germany and the Czech Republic.

Why choose a dog from Schönheit GS?

We often hear people ask how breeders can, in good conscience, breed dogs when there are so many dogs in shelters in need of homes. We cannot speak for all breeders, and certainly all breeders are not alike, but for us, we are specifically breeding for working/service shepherds with a rare balance of drive, even temperament, and trainability. It takes a rare combination of two balanced dogs with strong pedigrees to create the super smart puppies from our litters.

First off, we are not a puppy mill. We only allow between 0-3 litters a year, and our dogs are bred as working/service dogs. We whelp every litter inside our house in a room off of our living room where we are hands-on from conception through the whelp, and every day until they go home with their new families. Since they are whelped in our house, our pups are confident and used to being held often, which makes them better partners and family members.

Over the years, our family has rescued several dogs – not for breeding but as family pets. It is a needle in a haystack to find a dog from a shelter that can perform these highly specific tasks. One of our rescues, Ghost, a white shepherd,

we quickly realized had been highly abused. It took us three years to rehabilitate him. Isabel, another white shepherd rescue, who is often seen in our videos running with all the working dogs, is a great house dog but anytime we have tried to take her to a pet resort when we go out of town, she turns into a fierce beast that no one other than us can handle.

These are just two examples of the sad emotional damage that often happens to rescue dogs. We cannot ask them what happened in their past to help them overcome their trauma and it usually takes a couple weeks once they begin to feel comfortable in their new homes that their true personalities will begin to show. It takes a great amount of love and patience to help them heal and most of them will never become working/service dogs but they can make amazing family dogs with the right amount of training and care.

There is a great movie from 2018 called ‘Pick of the Litter,’ which follows a litter of puppies with the hopes of the pups becoming guide dogs for the blind. This movie aptly shows that even with a litter from exceptional lineage, maybe only 1 or 2 out of 73 pups has what it takes and can make the cut to become a guide dog for the blind.

This is the reason that we breed our shepherds. They definitely make amazing, well-balanced family dogs, but ultimately we breed highly selected dogs to have puppies with a rare combination of drive, stable temperament, and trainability.