Where to get our Shiloh?

Both Zak and I had been longtime fans of the German shepherd dog, but we had decided that the health and temperament problems we were always hearing about these days meant that the GSD was not an option for us. Now here was the Shiloh Shepherd, which sounded like a big GSD without those problems! Intrigued, we started digging up information on the Shiloh...or trying to. There was a lot of different information because the Shiloh is a breed still in development, so a lot of different people have their own ideas of what it should be. In the end, though, the largest registry and the most unified vision for the breed was the one endorsed by the breed founder, Tina Barber.

Tina's kennel, New Zion Shilohs in New York state, is where we finally decided to get our puppy. We first did a LOT of reading on the ISSR Shiloh Shepherd information site, which has amazing amounts of information on the history, development, and characteristics of the breed, as well as discussion boards full of friendly and helpful people! We read everything we could get our paws on and perused Tina's page on upcoming litters to see the ancestors of the future puppies and to find one that would fit our timing--we wanted our new pup to be ready to come home on the first day of Zak's five weeks of working from home over the holidays!