>the GSD league

Just curious, why are GSD folk often described as a 'league'?  Although I noticed it in Yvonnes post, I've seen it in other publications too and they seem to use it as derogatory term, like a militant uprising

...is that really what is meant?

No, that's the name of one of the breed clubs.

!!  Duh  !!  I never even thought of that, I thought there was a sinister undertone.  Thanks Jeangenie x

Hoping Jeangenie picks this up. In a past post you mentioned liver coloured GSD, but this post was a few yrs ago & I found it by putting same into bing. Anyway I once took in a Liver GSD although people told me he was Belgian. I have never been able to find one like him (he died suddenly of twisted gut, heartbreak) and to be honest he did not look your average GSD though obviously of the line. As you are the only person ever mentioning liver GSD I would be really pleased to hear about this. I have a picture or two of mine if it would help to identify/clarify.
To contact me I would first go for spider2308@tiscali.co.uk as I don't know how to get thru to you via this site.
I hope you do not mind helping me out with this. Many thanx, Dean or on this site canine22. I joined but it didn't help. 

Sorry, but what I know about GSDs is very very limited! This link might help you.

> Anyway I once took in a Liver GSD although people told me he was Belgian...

oops I don't mean to laugh but.... I have seen "Belgians" advertised which were just black GSDs, black GSD crosses, white GSDs, anything that looks a bit like a GSD but is odd coloured or a bit unusual.... basically any variant on a GSD theme. It's a convenient tag these days it seems.
My brother-in-law's late mum used to breed GSDs in the 1970s and she knew of livers cropping up back then, also blues. She took an interest in the odd ones because she was also an early breeder of Tortie point Siamese and Si-rex Cornish rex cats.

Just to add, in the early days on Belgians (I mean 1890's) solid black shorthairs and some variations were recorded but never liver or blue or "white". It seems there are blue Malinois in the USA within working lines but as some of those working lines have been crossed into Dutch Sheps, kind of debatable. Within show lines of belgians it's almost unheard of to get blue, pops up a lot less than it does in GSDs if ever... liver was never in the original gene pool... neither was 'white'.