AMERICAN BLUE BAY SHEPHERD DOG – Are they really Blue?
hello and welcome to animal watch and
this week we’re talking Blue Bay
shepherds
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I’m truly stoked as today I have been
invited to the birthplace of the blue
Bay Shepherd this dog breed has been one
of my most requested films on animal
watch and today I finally get to meet
them in person and also their founder
the lovely Vicki Spencer of southern
breeze kennels you want to see some of
the blue base I would love to think we
got a got a couple over here in the yard
there are only a couple weeks apart got
ten months all of course this is a male
the larger one yeah and let me male this
is a sure this is a sure tiffany is
Asher’s owner hello and that’s promise
that’s a little female actually she’s
pretty big for a female but
unfortunately Asher is so large he
Dwarfs her in come here vision come see
mama vision did you get to come visit
did you get to come visit she says yes I
love to visit I love to visit everybody
and vision is actually a
second-generation blue bay
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finally we’re bringing you the blue Bay
Shepherd which is my most requested
video so we flown out to Florida haven’t
we to meet you Vicki yes and your dogs
in the flesh
the name Blue Bay Shepherd is that
because the dogs are blue talking to a
good friend of mine he said well since
you live in Palm Bay why don’t you just
call him Blue Bay shepherds and and it
was it was perfect so it was you know
just you know the color the type and
where I was living when I heard they’re
developing a shepherd hasn’t been around
for long so this next march in 2019 will
be what seven seven years now these here
are foundation animals these are German
Shepherds these are not blue bass
shepherds these were the first two that
produced the first litter so blue box so
you’ve got your foundation Shepherds yes
and then on the other side of the
breeding you have wolf dogs yes and and
as these are brother and sister
German Shepherds from the same litter my
first two breedings were brother and
sister wolf dogs so I paired her with
the brother wolf dog Dillon a lot of
people know Dylan and I paired him with
slate
Dylan’s sister and they produced the
first two litters of course those two
litters were double first cousins it’s
just why I never chose to breed a puppy
from this litter to a puppy from this
litter then I incorporated a few more of
my of my blue coat wolf dogs and you
know tried to incorporate some some new
lines of Shepherds I wanted to stay with
I wanted to stay with the blue-coated
Shepherds
I did want the shorter areas I wanted
the old-world style which is why they
came from Europe because they should’ve
read them well then they breed them with
that with that angle and I wanted the
straight backs I meant of coast guard
backing the German Shepherds history we
know at some point they were all
stationed wolf dogs yes the original
wolf dog CEOs with these two yeah they
would color the eastern timber is so far
that I know of with what research I’ve
done and all my friends
it’s the only subspecies of wolf that’s
ever had a blue coat thing that’s quite
fascinating is some of the blue wolf
dogs will actually end up going pretty
much completely white but they face they
face like a like a black wolf would face
they get lighter and lighter and they
get the silvers and the whites and stuff
in them and you you can tell can’t you
when when wolf dogs are quite a higher
content because they’ll be phasing out
yeah they’ll be phasing out the idea
with the blue based shepherds is that
they look like a wall great they’ve got
this incredible blue color but they can
be in your house and there be amazing
companion rate trainable confident one
of my most important things that has
been temperament I want to keep the wolf
look as much as I can but I’ll sacrifice
some of the some of the look with you
know more of the shepherd look for you
know for that that trainability because
when you hear about people getting rid
of their animals they don’t get rid of
their animals because oh my dog’s ears
were just too big I just couldn’t take
that I had to get rid of that dog
because they couldn’t my dog was
aggressive I couldn’t handle my dog my
dog was escaping all the time you know
those are the reasons people get rid of
hands so temperament personality
character is definitely the most
important but these guys are German
Shepherds when I picked the shepherds
there again I I didn’t want ones that
that had the predisposition to to want
to be Guardi
these guys are nine years old they’ve
never barked at a human what sort of
person would be the ideal person to have
a blue base Shepherd because it’s such a
new breed every litter is a little
different there’s a point where they get
a little too intense that I’m not really
comfortable calling a blue base but what
I really try to do is I try to match
what the people are looking for with the
individual pup they’re going to do much
better if they’re with a family that
does spend a lot of time with them and
doesn’t leave them alone a lot they do
enjoy an active lifestyle even though
they have you know they have a side of
them that they’re quite content to you
know lay around and watch TV with you
but they they need that outside activity
the females I would say typically
typically go between 70 to maybe 85
pounds some of them do get up to hundred
I have a hundred pound one here
and the males I would say average 85 to
maybe
105 we do have a couple that’s gotten up
230 after which we met earlier he’s he’s
really big
I mean he’s quite tough to control on
the lead you need to be strong what
would be your ideal percentage we’ve had
quite a few of the second Jen’s that
have embarked at 12 to 16 percent that
looked very wolfy my friend
couple blocks away has a litter the
content should be 6 percent wolf they’re
not looking too young they’re not
looking too different from the other
blue base so we’re gonna see like 7 3 so
we’re gonna yeah we’re gonna keep very
close very close tabs on these pups to
see just how German Shepherd E or wolfy
yeah talk to me about Cogan because
Kagan has his own channel yes yes he
does that and that guy yeah that guy
does wonders with him I mean he you know
he’s got a great life gherkins got a
great life vision is from the same
litter that Kurgan is and now kurgans
got his own YouTube channel and I
featured him before in one of my
previous videos and I’m meeting Kai and
sister look so I never realized that if
you want to check out kurgans channel
you can click on the information box at
the top of the screen and that will take
you there
Kogan’s got an amazing channel and you
can see what it’s like to actually live
with the blue Bay Shepherd he goes
hiking with his owner every single day
and you get a wonderful insight into his
life after speaking with Vicki about the
origins of the breed I was delighted to
be invited to meet some of the dogs who
have gone into the foundation of the
Blue Bay Shepherd line including submit
and higher content wolf dogs Anika we’re
gonna go in now to visions enclosure you
get to meet her mate this will be an
example of breeding the blue Bay now
back to a wolf dog
they do have a tendency to to show some
timidness but when we’ve crossed them
with the with the shepherds that that
seems to go away because there even
though they have a timid it’s more of a
shy timid nature they’re not terrified
of people but they’re very you know once
once they earn your trust they’re very
affectionate and actually very gentle
they’re not even like to see how
exuberant she is and you know she’s a
little rough with her loving and he’s
very very gentle so she’s she’s wolf
doll she’s a wolf dog yes
and this is a tracker he’s an AKC German
Shepherd this is the original way that I
did that I started with the first blue
base was the wolf dog from the southern
breeze blue lines to a pure German
Shepherd okay
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Oakley is my ideal dog I’ve decided a
wolfdog I should say she is beautiful I
love her a lot of personality look how
cute
Slade is a wolf dog she’s 63 percent
she was the color of this when she was
born completely solid blue and of course
as she’s gotten older she’s 13 now as
she’s gotten older she phases out every
year she gets lighter and lighter she’s
got the kind of green yellow eyes and
it’s been wonderful meeting you today I
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if you would like to find out more about
the blue Bay Shepherd the official
website is www.seannal.com
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