"Remarkable in his unswerving loyalty to his master, irrepressible in his high spirits, never idle, always in motion, good-natured but not a flatterer, a constant pleasure to the eye." - this is the description that Prussian Captain of Cavalry Max von Stephanitz, who founded the German Shepherd Club over a hundred years ago, used to describe Horand von Grafath, the spirited ancestor of all German Shepherd dogs who was born on the first of January 1895 and first registered as Hektor Linkrsheim before being acquired by the captain. |
