This beauty is Caili from Southwind Shilohs. She and Alaska have the same father Tazer who is a carrier of the white gene.

WHITE SHILOH SHEPHERDS

White and buff Shiloh Shepherds can be traced back to the very origins of the German Shepherd.   Here is a website with some excellent history of the white German Shepherd:  http://www.justshepherds.com/wgsd.htm    Here is a site with some historical pictures of white German Shepherds:  http://www.whiteshepherd.info/museum_historical_pics.htm  

 

Although the white GSD has been purged from the current GSDCA standards, we very much welcome our white and buff Shilohs!  Their coloring, along with the Shiloh size and coat, make them stunning examples of the breed, and are sure to turn heads when out and about town!  

 

White Shilohs, as with white GSDs, are NOT albinos.  They are merely a color variation which causes lack of pigmentation.  Therefore, none of the albino-associated health problems found in other breeds apply to the white Shiloh. 

 

The gene for white coloring is recessive; both the sire and the dam must possess the gene for the color in order to produce white pups.  If a white Shiloh is bred to a non-white, the non-white must possess the recessive genetic makeup for whites.  Otherwise, the pups will all be of color. And as we have seen with Timba & Alaska neither parent has to be white to pass on the white/buff gene to their pups. They simply have to both carry the recessive.