This dog has the intelligence of a shepherd dog, the build of a shepherd dog, it is a shepherd dog. Only that it is white in colour. The White Swiss Shepherd is a rather young breed.
About the breed white Shepherd dog - the working dog
The Berger Blanc Suisse, also known as the White Swiss Shepherd or simply the White Shepherd, is classified by the FCI in Group 1, Section 1, which is the Shepherds. Shepherds are working dogs with their origin going back to herding dogs.
History - a young breed
Sheepdogs have been around for centuries. As herding dogs for flocks of sheep, agile, fearless and persevering workers were needed, but they were mainly bred and selected according to performance.
Around 1900, the Rittmeister von Stephanitz decided to breed the German Shepherd Dog. He wanted to create a modern working dog. In the beginning, stock-haired and long-haired as well as brown-black and white dogs were used for breeding. However, long-haired and the white dogs were excluded from breeding over time and in 1933 the decision was made to remove the colour white from the standard altogether for health reasons. The basis of this decision was the assumption that various hereditary diseases occurring in the German Shepherd Dog were related to this colour. This proved to be wrong. In the USA and Canada the colour white was only banned in 1968.
At the end of the 1960's in Switzerland they started to breed with white shepherds with the help of Canadian and American dogs. In Switzerland, they have been listed as a new breed since 1991, the FCI has finally recognised the breed only in 2011.