The result of the effort to breed an ideal shepherd with many capabilities, the German Shepherd Dog has proved itself in many areas, including working as a police dog, as a guide for the blind, in the military and as a search and rescue dog. Some feel that this dog strikes a resemblance to a wolf, but it is not related to a wolf any more than any other breed. While the roots of this breed can be traced back as far as 7th century A.D., when it was considered a mountain sheepdog found in Germany, the true origination of the dog we know today can be credited to Captain Max von Stephanitz. Between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, he was the one to develop the German shepherd into an all-purpose working dog. It is said that von Stephanitz used local shepherd dogs of the long-haired, short-haired, and wire-haired varieties, found in such places as Bavaria, Thurginia, and Wurtemburg, to produce the modern-day German shepherd. The German army helped to modify the breed into a military dog around 1880........
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