Many years ago, the first breeder who did not cull the one single puppy of their purebred Doberman litter that was born the wrong color probably did not know that this tiny puppy would end up shattering the entire breed. This unplanned color ended up splitting the genetics of a breed that was already in a state of low genetic diversity, sentencing thousands of dogs to be considered inferior because at some point in their pedigree they were related to the mother of this litter.  They probably also did not suspect that by using the most bias of “testing” their breed club would decide that this unwanted color was worthless and dangerous. If they did they may have done, as many a breeder had done before them, culled that puppy before she was even dry.

The tale spun by the DPCA is that the white Doberman is a genetic horror, full of health issues and with a temperament that made them unpredictable and dangerous. The same bowl of shit that has been said about the entire breed by many uneducated people. But to bolster this claim the breed club says they “did testing” and that’s how they came to this conclusion. They screamed from the roof tops this garbage to the point that it is now treated as gospel by many a layman and professional alike. The testing done by the DPCA however was sickening.

Starting with calling the poor single female puppy a mutant. Their “research” determining that they were unhealthy fear biters was to acquire siblings, bred the closely related dogs together repeatedly purely to reproduce the color, and raise them in kennel environments. Anyone with a brain cell can see that this would produce dog’s inferior in health and temperament. Anyone that has ever dealt with a kennel raised dog knows that ANY breed of dog raised this way tends to have serious socialization issues. No true breeder, interested in the health and well-being of the breed, would ever have suggested breeding brothers, sisters, and mothers in the way DPCA did to reproduce the whites they used for their determinations. They went into the “testing” with a predisposed hatred of the white coloration that tinted their breeding practices in these test but also the results to fit their narrative of “White Are Bad”.

But not only did they martyr the white/albino coloration they also martyred an entire genetic line that has resulted in the loss of almost 30% of the Doberman genetic available for their “approved” list of breeding dogs regardless of either the coloring of the dog, their genetic health, or they’re not even carrying the gene to reproduce the white coloration they hate. It is now possible to genetically screen a Doberman to prove they do not carry the white gene. But even with this advancement, there is no way off the dreaded “Z” list for any dog that finds itself on it by virtue of having a tiny distance relation to the mother of the first registered white Doberman. A Doberman can win a grand championship multiple times, have every title the AKC offers, be genetically perfect, have amazing OFA results, and rescue babies from fires but if it was born on the DPCA’s Schillinger’s List of hatred known as the Z list as far as the DPCA is concerned it is a worthless dog that should never be bred.

We do not subscribe to DPCA’s blind hatred. We want the genetic diversity of our breed to improve. The current inbreeding coefficient of the breed is abhorrent and there is a direct correlation between this coefficient and the lifespan of the Doberman. Carving a massive number of dogs out of the gene pool is not an acceptable reaction if preserving the life and health of the breed is truly your goal. We do not share the “white/albino Doberman is a dangerous horrible unhealthy monster” idealism the DPCA puts out there. We will not even get into the fact that whites have been born OUTSIDE of the Z list long before and long after the first white female was registered by the AKC.

A white/albino Doberman does have drawbacks in that they are more prone to sunburn which can result in a higher-than-normal chance of cancer. There is no way to make this not true but there are ways to mitigate the risk by being aware it exists. ALL white dogs carry a higher risk of sunburn and cancer compared to nonwhite dogs. This is not limited to the Doberman. Using sunblock and limiting outdoor time when it is extremely sunny is an easy way to reduce this risk significantly. Their blue eyes are sensitive to bright sunlight, the same as any other blue eye creature. No one says we should stop breeding blue eyed dogs, people, or cats because of this. As for the temperament claims, when bred with the same care for temperament and raised with correct socialization I have never found the white/albino Doberman to be more aggressive, more prone to fear biting, or to have an unstable temperament which is why I still work with them using the same common-sense practices as one would use with any other Doberman.

If you do not agree with us, we understand, we can agree to disagree.