german shepherd is what you call for a white german shepherd.
what do you call a white german shepherd?
german shepherd
in september 1995, a small group of fanciers of the white-coated german shepherd dog established the american white shepherd association (awsa), a new club to advance, promote and protect the white shepherd breed in the united states. in cooperation with the white shepherd club of canada, awsa wrote and published a new breed standard, and eventually petitioned the american kennel club for full recognition as a unique pure breed, separate from and independent of the german shepherd dog. as of this writing, akc has not granted recognition or registration for the white shepherd breed, but the breeders, fanciers and members of awsa carry on with independently-held club activities as well as running and maintaining the private club registry. awsa continues to negotiate with the akc for breed recognition as well as with the german shepherd dog club of america (gsdca) for breed separation. until such time as gsdca can be persuaded to grant official release of the white dogs, akc must continue to register all white german shepherd dogs born from two akc-registered german shepherd parents as german shepherd dogs.
white shepherd
under the verein für deutsche schäferhunde (society for the german shepherd dog), the long-haired variant of the german shepherd dog for a long time was not accepted. this changed in 2009. since 2010, the long-haired type has been accepted. previously, breeders of the long-haired variant of the german shepherd had founded their own kennel clubs, and had called their longer-coated standardised breed the "old german shepherd dog", too. so shepherds, farmers, and other owners of the threatened landraces who were attempting to standardise their varieties renamed the ' ('old german shepherd dogs') umbrella term to ' ('old german herding dogs', literally 'old-german herd-dogs'). other old landraces herding dogs, used for cattle rather than sheep, and which are not ancestors of the modern german shepherd (including "'"-coated dogs, cow-dogs), were also encompassed within the generic category '.
old german herding dogs