White Shepherd: the breed a disqualification created

What a White Shepherd is, and what the UKC standard requires

A White Shepherd is a white-coated German Shepherd Dog registered as a separate breed, recognised by the United Kennel Club on 14 April 1999 and filed in its Herding Dog Group.

The standard is unusually direct about the breed's origin. In its own words, the White Shepherd is a direct descendant of the German Shepherd Dog; colour was not considered initially as long as the dog demonstrated working ability; during the late thirties the white colour fell into disfavour; and because of their exclusion from most German Shepherd Dog breeding programmes, the whites 'rather quickly evolved into a distinct type, and eventually into a separate breed'. That is a registry saying that an administrative decision made a breed.

Size and weight, given as an ideal rather than a range

The UKC standard works differently from the European ones. Rather than a band it gives an ideal: 25 inches and 75 to 85 pounds for males, 23 inches and about 60 to 70 pounds for females, with an acceptable range of one inch of height in either direction and more than two inches treated as a serious fault. In metric that is roughly 63.5 cm and 34 to 38.6 kg for a male, inside a permitted 61 to 66 cm.

Two rows there are worth an Indian buyer's attention. The colour row is wider than the European standards allow, permitting very light cream to light biscuit tan, where the FCI and Royal Kennel Club standards for the Swiss-registered version treat a distinct fawn overlay as a severe fault. And the ear row disqualifies cropped ears, which aligns exactly with Indian law: Second Schedule Part II paragraph 6(8) of the 2017 Rules forbids ear cropping and any change of appearance by artificial means.

Coat and colour, and why the coat is doing two jobs

The White Shepherd has a weather-resistant double coat: a dense, straight, harsh, close-lying outer coat over a short, thick, fine undercoat, longer and heavier at the neck in males, longer on the backs of the legs than the fronts, with a longer, thicker coat on the rump and under the tail. Skin colour is pink to grey with grey preferred, and nose, lips, eye rims and pads are fully pigmented and black. In Indian sun that pigment matters as much as the hair, which is why the grooming section below rules out clipping.

The two clauses that created this breed, quoted rather than paraphrased

The White Shepherd exists because of a colour disqualification, and two German Shepherd standards impose it in a single short sentence each Federation Cynologique Internationale.

The American Kennel Club's German Shepherd Dog standard, approved on 11 February 1978 and reformatted on 11 July 1994, sets out its Color clause like this: the breed varies in colour and most colours are permissible; strong rich colours are preferred; pale, washed-out colours and blues or livers are serious faults; and then, in six words, 'A white dog must be disqualified'. Its closing list of six disqualifications reads: cropped or hanging ears; dogs with noses not predominantly black; undershot jaw; docked tail; White dogs; any dog that attempts to bite the judge.

The FCI's German Shepherd standard 166, dated 23 December 2010, ends its Colours clause with 'The colour white is not allowed', and then lists among its lettered disqualifying faults, separately, (i) Albinism and (j) White hair colour (also with dark eyes and nails). The parenthesis is the interesting part. It anticipates the argument that a white dog with dark eyes and dark nails is pigmented and therefore acceptable, and rejects it in advance.

Three dates for the same exclusion, and this page prints all three

Ask when white was excluded and you get three answers from three sources, none of which cites the other. English Wikipedia says the German standard was amended in 1933, banning white-coated dogs from registration. The breed's own UKC parent club says the German club was first to eliminate white dogs through disavowment of the colour around 1960. And the same club says the American disqualification, petitioned for by the German Shepherd Dog Club of America, went into effect on 9 April 1968. The UKC's own standard hedges differently again, saying only that the white colour fell into disfavour 'during the late 30s'.

Those are not all the same event, which is why they can all be true. A club disavowing a colour, a national standard being amended, an American disqualification taking effect and a later standard being approved are four separate acts spread across four decades. What this page will not do is average them into one confident sentence, which is what most ranking pages do.

What the colour actually is

The breed's parent club states that the white coat comes from a simple recessive gene that is a natural component of the German Shepherd's own colour genetics, that both parents must carry it to produce a white puppy, and that it sits at a different locus from the genes causing colour-paling in the German Shepherd. It also states, citing Willis, that hereditary deafness is not linked to that gene and is likely rare and more probably acquired than inherited in German Shepherds generally. Those are club claims with a bibliography attached rather than a study, and this page labels them that way. The same page answers the obvious follow-up about the gene pool by arguing that the population is large enough to stand alone, which is a claim about a gene pool rather than a measurement of one.

One dog or two? The White Shepherd and the Berger Blanc Suisse

They are one founding population registered as two breeds, and no registry holds both: the United Kennel Club holds the White Shepherd, the FCI and the Royal Kennel Club hold the White Swiss Shepherd Dog, and neither list carries the other's name.

The documentary proof runs in one direction and it is decisive. The FCI's Swiss standard states that in the USA and Canada White Shepherd dogs gradually became accepted as a distinct breed, that the first dogs of this breed were imported to Switzerland in the early seventies, that the American male Lobo, whelped on 5 March 1966, can be considered the progenitor of the breed in Switzerland, and that these dogs were registered as a new breed in the appendix of the Swiss Stud Book since June 1991. The Swiss breed is the American breed, exported and re-filed.

Bonbeno publishes a page for each, and both pages say the same thing, because a reader who lands on one should not get a different answer from the other. What differs is the paperwork, and the paperwork has consequences. The rest of the English-language ranking set is less consistent: English Wikipedia keeps two separate articles whose White Swiss Shepherd infobox prints heights matching neither standard it links, while a general breed directory files the American name on its own with no cross-reference at all.

The row that matters most to an owner

Look at the literature row again. Exactly one PubMed record carries the phrase 'white shepherd' in its title or abstract, and it is a Swiss teaching case in which acute vomiting turned out to be caused by testicular torsion, so the breed is the patient's label rather than the subject. Twelve records carry 'White Swiss Shepherd', and they include the drug-sensitivity work, the cerebellar hypoplasia mapping and the megaoesophagus test evaluation.

The practical instruction follows directly. If you own a White Shepherd, read the White Swiss Shepherd literature, because it is about your dog. An owner who searches only the American name will conclude that this breed has no published health data at all, and will be wrong by a factor of twelve.

White Shepherd price in India, and why the search returns colour charts

No verifiable white shepherd price in india exists, and the breed is absent from India's fullest published dog price list under all four of its names.

The absence is measured. Supertails publishes a price list covering India's top 40 breeds with city-wise costs, and searched in full it contains 'White Shepherd' zero times, 'White Swiss' zero times, 'Berger Blanc' zero times and 'Swiss Shepherd' zero times, while the in-document controls 'German Shepherd' appears 15 times and 'Labrador' 30 times.

The search itself fails, and the failure is documented

Four Bing India queries run in one session returned one byte-identical set of ten results about the colour white, headed by the Wikipedia articles 'White' and 'Shades of white' and including a Figma hex-code page and a Canva colour guide, under an identical printed count of 'About 209,000 results' for all four: 'white shepherd dog breed', 'white swiss shepherd dog price in india', 'white swiss shepherd dog' and 'white swiss shepherd'.

Two controls passed in the same session. 'labrador retriever price in india' returned About 16,200 results and ten genuine Indian Labrador pages, and 'berger blanc suisse' returned About 22,400 results and ten genuine breed pages. Identical output across genuinely different queries is the query-insensitivity signature, so the engine was not reading any of the four, and no absence of Indian supply can be claimed from those zeros. What can be said is practical: an Indian buyer searching this breed's English name will get colour theory.

What an Indian buyer is actually being offered

Almost certainly a white-coated German Shepherd, and there is nothing wrong with that. The colour is a recessive gene inside the German Shepherd's own genetics, so white puppies occur in ordinary German Shepherd litters wherever both parents carry it. India's own market prices the German Shepherd at Rs 20,000 to Rs 75,000, with a note beneath the table that a standard puppy starts at Rs 20,000 while show-quality dogs reach Rs 50,000, which is a disagreement inside one page. A white puppy at that puppy price is a white German Shepherd. A white puppy at a large premium is being sold on a name.

Cost of ownership in India for a 34 to 39 kg double-coated dog

The recurring cost of ownership for this breed in India is knowable from published rate cards even though its purchase price is not, because vaccination, parasite control, registration and boarding are priced by dog size rather than by breed.

Every figure below was read from the seller's own page on 9 September 2026 and is what that seller charges rather than a market average. Retail prices in India move; municipal fees do not.

The one line that is genuinely breed-specific

MDR1 testing, done once. The population's mutant allele frequency is 14 percent, measured on 7,378 dogs, and a dog carrying the deletion handles a list of ordinary drugs badly. One test changes how every future anaesthetic, sedative and antiparasitic is chosen. It is the highest-value rupee an owner of this population will spend and almost nobody in India spends it, because almost nobody knows the mutation is there.

• Budget cooling rather than clipping. A raised mesh cot bed and a fan beat any grooming decision for a double-coated dog, and cost less than one salon visit at the Rs 300 to 2,000 range Indian sources quote.
• Budget an undercoat rake rather than a groomer. This coat needs brushing, not clipping.
• Budget boarding early. A 35 kg white shepherd is harder to place at short notice than a Labrador, at Rs 899 for a stay of up to 24 hours.
• Budget joint screening. The French data show what twenty years of radiographs achieve.

Heat tolerance: an American founding climate against an Indian one

The White Shepherd rates 2 of 5 for heat tolerance in Indian conditions, because the population was assembled in the temperate United States and Canada rather than in an Arctic one.

The homeland baseline here is genuinely American, which is a rarity on this site. New York, queried by explicit latitude and longitude, returns a cell elevation of 10.17 m against a real 10 m, an annual mean of 12.26 C, annual relative humidity of 80.45 percent and a July mean of 23.71 C. Toronto returns 98.64 m against a real 76 m, an annual mean of 9.10 C and a July mean of 21.66 C.

A New York July at 23.71 C is warmer than the northern European homelands this site usually meets, which is why this heat-sensitive breed rates 2 rather than 1. It is still 12.17 degrees below a Delhi June and 7.8 below a Chennai May. Bengaluru and Pune, at 28.37 and 28.93 C, are the only Indian cities in the table within five degrees of the founding summer, and both peak in April rather than May, which matters when you set a coat and exercise calendar. The coat is hardy against cold and wet and is not hardy against trapped damp underneath it.

Humidity is not the shock; heat plus humidity is

New York runs 80.45 percent annual relative humidity, which is not far off Chennai. A dog from the American northeast is not going to be surprised by damp air. What it has never met is damp air at 31 degrees. Frame the Indian risk as wet-bulb load rather than as monsoon, and move the exercise rather than shortening it.

Health: the literature is filed under the other name, and that is the finding

The White Shepherd's own name carries almost no clinical literature, while the same population's Swiss name carries all of it, so an owner searching the American name will wrongly conclude the breed is unstudied.

The audit is simple and repeatable. Searching PubMed on 9 September 2026 with the query translation line read each time, '"White Shepherd"[tiab]' returns 1 record, '"White Swiss Shepherd"[tiab]' returns 12, '"Berger Blanc Suisse"[tiab]' returns 1 which is inside that 12, and the German name returns 0. The in-session control 'Labrador retriever hip dysplasia' returned 126.

The single American-named record is a Swiss teaching case titled 'Vomitus in a white shepherd dog', in which acute vomiting with unremarkable clinical, laboratory and radiographic findings turned out to be caused by testicular torsion. The breed is the patient's label rather than the subject, and the paper's lesson is a general one about looking outside the gastrointestinal tract.

The drug sensitivity that an Indian vet must be told about

The population entered the veterinary literature in 2007 through case reports of doramectin toxicosis, together with a demonstration of breed predisposition and a microsatellite analysis. A larger German study then screened 7,378 dogs and put the mutant MDR1 allele frequency at 14 percent, between the Waeller at 17 and the Old English Sheepdog at 4, on a scale headed by the Collie at 59 percent. Both figures are recorded under the Swiss name, and they describe the same founding population.

Hips and elbows, on real screening data

A twenty-year French screening study of 27,710 dogs across ten breeds included 2,924 dogs of this population and recorded a dysplastic proportion falling from 34.6 percent in 1997 to 2003, to 24.5 percent in 2004 to 2010, to 20.3 percent in 2011 to 2017, significant at p below 0.0001 across the span, with grade C at 15.6 percent, D at 4.0 and E at 0.7 in the final period. Across the same ten breeds, hip dysplasia ranged from 5 percent in the Siberian Husky to 51.9 percent in the Cane Corso.

A companion study of 17,861 elbow radiographs across 13 French breeds includes this population by name, puts overall elbow dysplasia prevalence at 11.4 percent, ranging from 1.1 percent in the Czechoslovakian Wolfdog to 32.2 percent in the Dogue de Bordeaux, and finds males significantly more affected than females at 17.5 against 10.5 percent.

Temperament and household fit, in the standard's own words

The UKC standard describes a distinct personality marked by self-confidence: poised, but when the situation demands eager and alert, ready to serve in any capacity, showing both herding and protective instincts, open and friendly with people it knows.

With strangers the standard asks for observant and somewhat aloof but not apprehensive, and it is emphatic about the failure mode: timidity in a mature dog or aggressive behaviour is not typical of this breed and should be severely penalised. That sentence is doing real work. Aloof is acceptable and shy is not, and a shy adult white shepherd is not showing breed character, it is showing a fault the registry wants removed. The Swiss standard for the same population goes further and makes anxiety and high grade fearfulness disqualifying outright.

Compare that with the Swiss standard for the same population, which asks for a lively and balanced temperament, attentive, with good ability to be trained, friendly and discreet, with high social competence and never afraid or aggressive without provocation. Two registries on two continents describing one dog, and they agree almost word for word about what the temperament should be.

The Indian complication nobody mentions

A pure white dog of 35 kg draws attention in an Indian street that a black and tan German Shepherd does not, and a socially confident dog will move towards that attention rather than away from it. That is a handling problem rather than a temperament problem, and it is solved with a reliable settle and a short lead in crowds rather than with a muzzle.

Training a working-bred dog through an Indian socialisation window

To train a White Shepherd, spend the socialisation window on Indian city life rather than on obedience, because the standard already promises a poised, confident, trainable dog.

What an owner supplies is exposure rather than method, and in India the socialisation window collides with the vaccination course: a published Indian puppy course runs six visits from day 30 to day 120, finishing at about seventeen weeks. Do not choose between them. Carry the puppy, use a car, use the lift, sit on a balcony above traffic, invite people in rather than taking the dog out.

1. Weeks 8 to 12: register the household. Every regular visitor a flat has, one at a time.
2. Weeks 8 to 12: register the city. Horns, bells, pressure cookers, lifts, marble, metal stairs, monsoon rain on a tin awning.
3. Weeks 12 to 20: build a settle. A white dog attracts hands, so a reliable down-stay in public is worth more than any trick.
4. Months 4 to 12: proof recall around cattle, cats and community dogs, on a long line.
5. Months 6 to 18: teach veterinary handling. Ears, feet, mouth and belly, because a population carrying a drug-sensitivity mutation should be examinable without sedation.

What Indian law says about the equipment you may be offered

Second Schedule Part II paragraph 6(8) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Dog Breeding and Marketing) Rules, 2017 forbids tail docking, ear cropping, de-barking, de-clawing, branding, dyeing, injecting substances to enhance visual appeal and any other mutilation, and states that any change of appearance by artificial means is strictly forbidden. The UKC standard agrees from the other direction: it disqualifies cropped ears outright. On this breed the registry and Indian law want the same dog.

Daily exercise, and the Indian clock that limits it

A White Shepherd needs 60 to 90 minutes of real daily exercise, because its standard asks for a dog capable of quick, sudden movement with a long, efficient stride driven by powerful forward thrust from the hindquarters.

The standard adds that the rear leg swings under the foreleg and touches down where the forefoot left its imprint, that the back stays firm and level, and that as speed increases there is a tendency to single track. That is a description of an efficient trotting dog, and it is satisfied by distance at a steady pace rather than by sprints.

• Dawn, 45 to 60 minutes of steady walking or trotting, which in a plains city is the only reliably usable window from March to October.
• Evening, 30 minutes, later than feels necessary, because tarmac holds heat after the air cools.
• Mental work through the middle of the day, scent games and food puzzles, substituting for movement rather than adding to it.
• No structured running before 14 months, on a dog finishing at 61 to 66 cm.
• Swimming where it is available and clean, the one exercise that solves the heat problem instead of fighting it.

The constraint is the clock. Delhi's June mean is 35.88 C and Chennai's May mean 31.51 C, and those are means rather than peaks. Bengaluru and Pune, peaking at 28.37 and 28.93 C in April, give a genuinely wider window and are the two Indian cities where this dog is most keepable.

Grooming a white double coat in Indian humidity

To groom a White Shepherd in India, rake the undercoat out twice weekly all year and never clip the dog, because the standard specifies a weather-resistant double coat whose outer layer is the sun barrier.

The standard describes a dense, straight, harsh, close-lying outer coat over a short, thick, fine undercoat, longer and heavier at the neck in males, longer on the backs of the legs than the fronts, and longer and thicker on the rump and under the tail, with an open coat listed as a fault. That is a double coat specified for a North American winter.

Why the Indian plains break the shedding cycle

A double coat sheds on a temperature and daylight cue. Chennai runs from 24.09 C in January to 31.51 C in May, a swing of 7.4 degrees, against a New York swing of 22.65 degrees between January and July NASA POWER, climatology point API. In practice the dog does not shed in two clean bursts here. It sheds untidily all year and holds dead undercoat against the skin, and that trapped layer is where humid-climate skin problems begin.

• Twice weekly, all year, with an undercoat rake rather than a slicker, down to the skin on the ruff, breeches and behind the ears.
• Daily for three weeks, twice a year, on dates you choose, because the dog will not choose them in an Indian climate.
• Dry the dog actively after every bath, ears included, rather than letting it air dry.
• Bath rarely and rinse thoroughly, because a white coat tempts frequent washing and stripped oils make humid-climate skin worse.
• Check the belly, groin and armpits weekly, where hot spots start under a coat this dense.

Never clip a white double coat

The outer coat is the sun barrier and the undercoat is the insulation, and a clipped double coat regrows unevenly with the undercoat first, leaving the dog hotter rather than cooler. On a white dog there is a second reason: the standard asks for skin pigment ranging from pink to grey with grey preferred, and pale skin under clipped white hair in Indian sun is a burn risk. A groomer offering a summer cut for this breed has not understood the coat.

Feeding: life stage, body condition and Indian availability

Feed a White Shepherd on a large-breed growth diet to a target of 75 to 85 pounds in males and about 60 to 70 in females, checking body condition weekly with your hands rather than reading the bag.

The standard adds a phrase worth taking literally: the dog is 'solid without bulkiness and should be shown in lean, hard physical condition'. That is a registry telling owners to keep the dog thin, and given a documented hip dysplasia rate of 20.3 percent in the most recently screened cohort of this population, it is not a cosmetic instruction.

• Weeks 8 to 16: four meals a day on a large-breed puppy formulation.
• Months 4 to 8: three meals a day, and the point at which most owners overfeed.
• Months 8 to 14: two meals a day, still on a growth diet, still visibly lean.
• Adult: two meals a day rather than one, because a deep-chested dog of this size sits in the body shape associated with gastric dilatation and volvulus.
• Never free-feed, because a dog you do not weigh needs an owner who can see what it ate.

The Indian cost lines that go with the bowl

Parasite control is a firmer number than food. NexGard Spectra for a 15 to 30 kg dog costs Rs 3,308 for three tablets against an MRP of Rs 3,375, which is Rs 1,102.67 a month, and a male of this breed needs the pack above that. In an Indian climate tick and worm cover is not seasonal and not optional.

Month by month through the first year in Indian conditions

The first year of a White Shepherd in India runs on two clocks: a socialisation window closing at about twelve weeks and a vaccination course finishing at about seventeen.

Two of those rows are Indian law rather than preference. The 2017 Rules provide at Rule 8(1)(a) that pups less than eight weeks in age are not sold, and at Rule 8(1)(b) that dogs over six months in age are not sold without first being sterilised unless they are being sold to another licensed breeder.

Legal status in India: no ban, ordinary import law, and one breeding clause

The legal status of a White Shepherd in India is straightforward: no Indian law in force names this breed, and the only provisions that reach it are ordinary import law and the breeding rules that apply to every purebred dog.

That is worth saying plainly because the neighbouring wolfdog pages on this site cannot say it. A breed with documented wolf ancestry raises a question under Indian wildlife law that remains unsettled and that this site refuses to answer from a secondary source. This breed has no wolf content. It is a white-coated German Shepherd whose colour two registries disqualified, and nothing in Indian wildlife law engages with it.

Import law, which is where the real friction is

Two separate instruments govern a dog entering India and they are constantly conflated: the commercial route under the Directorate General of Foreign Trade's restricted-import policy for live animals, and personal pet import under the baggage rules. This session could not retrieve the current DGFT trade notice at its published address, so this page quotes no port list and no policy condition from memory. Read the live text of whichever route applies and get the answer in writing, because import law is applied by an officer at a port rather than by a website.

The breeding clauses that do apply

• Rule 8(1)(a): pups less than eight weeks in age are not sold.
• Rule 8(1)(b): dogs over six months are not sold without first being sterilised, unless sold to another licensed breeder.
• Second Schedule Part II paragraph 6(3): in breeding, defined as breeding between relatives of the second to fourth grade within the first four generations, and incest breeding are both prohibited. That clause matters here because the population's documented cerebellar hypoplasia case arose in a litter with a recent common ancestor on both sides of the pedigree.
• Second Schedule Part III paragraph 8(10): breeding dogs must have been tested for a list of genetic defects that opens with hip dysplasia, which is the condition this population has the most published data on.

Head to head against the three dogs an Indian buyer is really choosing between

Compare the White Shepherd against the Berger Blanc Suisse and the German Shepherd and one difference decides it in India: only one of the three can be bought and registered here.

Against the Berger Blanc Suisse, which is the same dog

The comparison is between documents rather than animals. The UKC sets an ideal of 25 inches with an inch either way; the FCI and Royal Kennel Club give a band of 58 to 66 cm. The UKC permits very light cream to light biscuit tan; the European standards treat a distinct fawn overlay as a severe fault. The UKC describes one coat variety; the European standards recognise two Federation Cynologique Internationale. Buy to whichever document your dog's register uses, and do not let a seller quote one standard's tolerance against the other's measurement.

Against a white-coated German Shepherd, which is what India sells

This is the comparison that matters, because it is the only one an Indian buyer can actually make. A white puppy from a Kennel Club of India registered German Shepherd litter is the same recessive colour on the same genetic background, available at Rs 20,000 to Rs 75,000, with a veterinarian nearby who has seen the breed a thousand times. What it cannot do is be shown in the colour, because both the AKC and the FCI standards disqualify white Federation Cynologique Internationale. That is a show problem, not a dog problem.

Seven mistakes Indian buyers make about this breed

Most errors about the White Shepherd in India come from reading a directory rather than a standard, and each one below is settled by opening a single document.

1. Calling it an albino. Albinism is a disqualification separate from colour in both the UKC and the FCI standards, and a correct dog has a black nose and dark brown eyes.
2. Assuming it is a different dog from the Berger Blanc Suisse. The FCI's Swiss standard names an American male whelped in 1966 as the progenitor of the Swiss line.
3. Searching only the American name for health information. One PubMed record carries it against twelve for the Swiss name.
4. Buying a blue-eyed white puppy as this breed. Blue or pink eyes are disqualifying.
5. Skipping the MDR1 test. The population's mutant allele frequency is 14 percent and the first published cases were drug toxicoses Gramer I, Leidolf R, Doering B.
6. Believing a single date for the exclusion. Four published accounts give 1933, the late 1930s, around 1960 and 9 April 1968, and they describe different acts.
7. Reading a failed Indian search as an absent Indian market. Four Bing India queries beginning with 'white' returned one identical result set about the colour while two controls passed in the same session.

One claim on the club's own page worth flagging

The parent club states that if the White Shepherd became a separate AKC breed today it would be the 41st largest breed in the AKC registry, with over 5,000 new dogs registered yearly. That figure is undated, unsourced within the page and cannot be checked against an AKC document, so this guide records it as a club claim rather than as a registration statistic. The AKC's own position is unchanged: the breed appears nowhere on its 88-breed Foundation Stock Service and Miscellaneous list.

Adoption, responsible sourcing and the honest Indian recommendation

Adopting a White Shepherd in India is not a realistic route, because no verified Indian population exists to surrender from, and the practical alternative is a white-coated German Shepherd or a shelter dog.

Every Indian metro has shelters holding large dogs that will meet an Indian summer better than this breed and need a home now, and India has a functioning German Shepherd market in which white puppies occur naturally because the colour is recessive. If the white coat is what draws you, that second route gets you there legally, cheaply and quickly.

The four questions that separate a breeder from a seller

1. Which register issued the pedigree? The United Kennel Club holds this breed; the FCI and the Royal Kennel Club hold the Swiss-named version; the Kennel Club of India holds neither.
2. What is the MDR1 result for both parents? At a 14 percent allele frequency this is not an exotic request.
3. What are the hip and elbow scores? The French screening data exist because breeders submit radiographs, and the population's dysplastic rate fell 14 points in twenty years as a result.
4. Is the puppy at least eight weeks old? Rule 8(1)(a) of the 2017 Rules prohibits selling younger.

If you are importing, read the instrument rather than a forum

The commercial and personal pet routes into India run on different statutes, and this session could not retrieve the current DGFT trade notice at its published address, so no port list or policy condition is quoted here from memory. Get the answer for your own route in writing before you book a flight, and note that an FCI-route import would arrive under the Swiss name rather than the American one.

Compare with similar breeds

White Shepherd sits in 1 Bonbeno group. Each one compares it directly against the breeds it is genuinely an alternative to, on the same figures.