German Shepherd Photos

- Do you know any sites that have week by week photos of German Shepherd puppies growing up?
Do you know any websites that have week by week photos of German Shepherd puppies growing up? I would like to see what they look like week to week. Thanks!

A This might help http://www.vomwunderhund.com/german_shepherds/puppies_01.php http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.stormlake-northerninuits.com/STORM%26KIA%2520PUPPIES%2520WEB%2520SIZE.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.stormlake-northerninuits.com/stormkiapuppies07.htm&h=376&w=500&sz=150&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=SFSPRtNi7ir7WM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgerman%2Bshepherd%2Bpuppies%2Bweek%2Bby%2Bweek%2Bpictures%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGIC_en___US234%26sa%3DX (their mixes though) http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wakitashepherds.com/Puppies/1%2520week%2520old%2520pups.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.wakitashepherds.com/puppies.htm&h=517&w=800&sz=75&hl=en&start=1&um=1&tbnid=d1bTpk_TPqvUiM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgerman%2Bshepherd%2Bpuppies%2B1%2Bweek%2Bpictures%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGIC_en___US234%26sa%3DG Hope This Helps!!! =D You might want to try typing on google German shepherd puppies 1 week, then 2 weeks, and so on....

- Is a dilute color in german shepherd sex related?
For example all the liver color german shepherd photos i have seen are all males... is the color mutation a sex-linked mutation?

A Only "Nancy M" is on the right track so far. But let's get your terminology corrected - the allele for liver is NOT in the Dilute series (D^ for black vs d^ for dilute to blue-gray), it is in the B series (B^ for Black vs b^ for brown). Each colour series so far named is autosomal, which means NOT in the sex chromosomes. Incidentally, although not all geneticists agree with me, I prefer "mutation" applied to something that is in the first or second generation since it changed, "allele" applied to mutations that became established 3 or more generations ago. An example is the "Panda" markings - in Franka it is a mutation (she presumably got it from a gonadal mutation in a single cell of her sire's testes, but it could have occurred at the moment of fertilisation); as those fanciers are now using her grandchildren, it is an established allele so far as I am concerned. The alleles that produce liver and blues have been around for as long as anyone bothered to record canine history. In a couple of breeds the b^ allele that, when present homozygously, produces liver colouration has become associated with disorders, but the b^ allele is NOT the cause (except that neither livers nor blues have black "leathers" - eye rims, nose, lips, pads - which makes them more susceptible to sunburn; their eyes are lighter, too, which would probably make them more susceptible to pannus if they were used to herd sheep). It's just that in THOSE breeds a gene VERY close to the locus of the b^ allele long ago developed a damaging mutation, and because the two genes are so close to each other on their chromosome, almost every time that the mix-&-match of meiosis occurs, the damaging allele goes into the same gamete as the b^ does. It is, therefore, almost certain that livers in THOSE breeds are homozygous for the associated damaging allele. But the GSD is NOT (yet!) one of those breeds. To keep up to date with what is known about the genetics of coats, as applied to GSDs, join The_GSD_Source http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/The_GSD_Source then click Files. The problems that occur far too often in GSDs with incorrect coats - off-colours or long-coats - are entirely due to the policies of the breeder. Even those who breed CAREFULLY have too high a fault-rate for me - the good Yank breeders of self-whites set up a data-base of their results - I haven't bothered checking it, but I'm told that 25% of the whites recorded there have at least one fault other than their white colour. Yet the self-whites are, in the USofA, relatively popular, registering 5% of all AKC GSDs, so that those breeders have some degree of choice of partner. By the time you look at the blues or the livers there are perhaps 1% of the breed with those colours, which boils down to perhaps 2 such pups born in each State per year. In other words, a person determined to produce a whole litter of blues or a whole litter of livers has very little choice of partner, and so such breeders tend to "forgive" a host of defects - I know of one breeder of blues in Texas who accepts that 30+% of her males are cryptorchids (the average in the whole breed is just 1%), and that she is producing weak temperaments, but I haven't bothered checking what other faults she accepts - it was pure coincidence that I was told about those problems Les P, owner of GSD_Friendly: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/GSD_Friendly "In GSDs" as of 1967