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1. on February 25, 2011 at 3:55 pm Peggy Richter

   I don’t know that Schnuppe is a “mongrel” — the GSD didn’t exist at the time and Schnuppe looks like a “landrace” farm dog to me. It’s interesting that the AKC Doberman club identifies Schnuppe as “Dobermann’s favourite bitch, a mouse-grey smooth-coated Pinscher, named “Schnuppe”. ” It’s impossible to verify the dog in the photo as to exact color, but it certainly does not look like a mouse grey color (I’d guess either a fawn like a Tervuren or a saddle black/tan). Schnuppe does NOT look like a “pinscher”. The term “smooth coated” often misleads folk to presuming the dogs were “short coated” (like a Rottweiler) whereas it merely means “not wire-haired or curly coated” and is used as a description of longhair dogs like Groenendaels. The dog in the photo clearly has more coat than a Rottweiler– more like a modern GSD.
   There’s a site (http://www.grandslamdobermanns.com/dobermannhistory.htm) that asserts the dog in the photo is not Schnuppe but a male dog. Is there any clear identification of the dog in the photo?
   I’ve always rather thought that the Rottweiler and possibly the Beauceron played a large role in the creation of the breed.
   Peggy Richter.

   
   
   • on February 25, 2011 at 4:22 pm retrieverman

     It’s pretty hard to tease apart. I always heard that the longer hair on some early show dobes was the result of a lot of Beauceron blood.

     The dog in the photo could have been a shepherd type dog or it could have been an early pinscher. The unimproved pinscher on German farms looked more like an Austrian pinscher: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_LYxGQn08RU4/SNBJXVJqIbI/AAAAAAAABcI/E-xKqKwCMuc/s400/%C3%96sterreichischer+Pinscher+AUSTRIAN+PINSCHER.bmp

     Meaning lots of type variance.

     I’ve always thought this type of pinscher was behind the mountain cur, but I can’t find any definite evidence.

     
     

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