Welcome to Driftwood Shepherds where my dogs are a part of the family.  Driftwood Shepherds strives to promote the working German Shepherd Dog.  Capitan Max von Stephanitz the founder of the breed worked hard to make sure the German Shepherd Dog was a multi-purpose working dog. 

     The “SV/FCI breed standard states that the German Shepherd Dog should be suitable as an all round working, herding and service dog. To achieve this a dog must be of well balanced temperament, steady of nerve, self assured, absolutely free and easy, and (unless provoked) completely good natured, as well as alert and tractable. He must have courage, combative instinct and hardness, in order to be suitable as companion, watch, protection, service and herding dog.  In relation to movement the Breed Standard describes the German Shepherd Dog as a trotter. The limbs must be of such length and angulations that the hindquarters may be thrust well forward under the body, and the forequarters reach equally far forward, without noticeable change in the top line. Any tendency towards overangulation of the hindquarters lessens their firmness and endurance, and thus the dog’s utmost working ability. With correct structural proportions and angulations, a roomy, smooth, ground covering gait results, that gives the impression of effortless forward propulsion.” (http://maxvs.blogspot.com/2005/11/max-von-stephanitz.html

Rittmeister Captain Max von Stephanitz 1864 - 1936

“Take this trouble for me:  Make sure my shepherd dog remains a working dog, for I have struggled all my life long for that aim”.