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German shepherd dog |
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German shepherd dog a large muscular dog with medium length, double coat of tan and black, erect ears and bushy tail. The breed has been used widely as a working dog in police and military activities and as a guide dog for the blind. It is predisposed to epilepsy, giant axonal neuropathy, pituitary dwarfism, hip dysplasia, pyoderma, anal furunculosis, pancreatic insufficiency, pannus, persistent right aortic arch, subaortic stenosis, eosinophilic myositis and von Willebrand's disease. Called also Alsatian. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In her spare time, Webmaster Gretchen volunteers as a Base Camp Operator for SARDOM, a local Search and Rescue team that utilizes air-scenting German Shepherd dogs to find lost persons in a variety of situations. All we had to do was just cling to the fact that we'd learned our lines and say them at the right time, because those German shepherd dogs and those SS uniforms and those 'kapos' in their striped suits and truncheons, and the blinding snow that happened to fall on every single take, was something that I will never, never, never forget. Bronze German shepherd dogs, menacing as they strain their leashes, bare their teeth at you; a boy and girl try to escape from a water cannon; other children are glimpsed through prison bars. |
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