Sable Fever Shepherds

Welcome to Sable Fever Shepherds, a division of Spotted Fever Ranch.  We are so proud of our sable and our black German shepherds that we created this webpage to share them with you.  We have had several types of GSD's in the past, and we researched long and hard before we decided to purchase our first Czech GSD import.  Why Czech?  Why imported?  We wanted to avoid inherent  hip and elbow problems so common among American bred GSD's.  We wanted the whole package: health, longevity, companionship, protection, loyalty, and the ability to take these dogs as far as their capabilities will allow them to go.

Our German shepherds are raised on our working ranch in southern Colorado.  Highly intelligent, their bloodlines have been used for police work, tracking, search and rescue, narcotics detection, dock diving competition, and personal protection.  We have used them for moving and herding our cattle!  They make loyal and wonderful family members and that is 'the job' that is the role for most of our dogs.  Many people refer to this line of breeding as "fifteen year dogs" as their health and physical well being usually results in a companion that is with us considerably longer than the typical large breed dog. 

Our shepherds, Joker and Cinder have all been hip and elbow x-rayed and tested for degenerative myelopathy.  The tests show good on hips and elbows and clear for DM.  We only have one litter per year and it is usually a mixture of sables and blacks.

Please enjoy these pictures and contact us if you are interested in getting on our puppy waiting list.

Xena & Max

These are the two that started it all at Sable Fever Shepherds in 2010. They were both imported from the Czech Republic and all of the puppies pictured and our current breeding female, Cinder, go back to these two awesome dogs.

This is Raven, who was our solid black Czech female and Nugget, her daughter. These two ladies were the dams of all of the the puppies and adult dogs pictured on our website. They have brought such joy to their owners! We have retired them and they are on the ranch living out their one best lives.

 The solid black shepherds are fairly rare and only occur if each sable parent has a recessive black gene and passes it.  This will occur 25% of the time.  Raven, therefore, carries two recessive black genes and when mated with a sable male who carries the one recessive black gene, half the litter should be black and half will be sable.  If Raven was bred to a black stud, all the puppies would be black.  Raven was larger than average for a Czech bred female and always had a very shiny coat, which we really admired.  We could never take her any place without people inquiring about and admiring her for the unusual dog that she was.  Her granddaughter, Cinder, is now our only breeding female.

SFR's Cinder Fever

This is Cinder who will have a litter with our Joker in late Oct '25. We are currently taking reservations.  The puppies should be ready right before Christmas, depending upon delivery date.

SFR's Jokers Are Wild

This is our new stud dog, Joker, that is a son of Hondo pictured below. He is Czech bred, has medium drive, and has become a great family companion. He carries a recessive black gene and will produce both blacks and sables when bred to Cinder.

SFR's Vino Fever

This is our daughter's one year old male out of Cinder and by Hondo. He might be the best built black GSD that we have ever seen! This is what the October puppies should look like as the genetics are almost identical.

Former Stud Dogs

These are some of the stud dogs that we have used in our breeding program and produced some of the dogs seen in the following pictures.

Hondo z Canczech

Vigo z Tresnaku                     CQB Dreke                            CBQ Kong                                                

All of our puppies are weaned on day 49. They are priced at $2500.

 For all dog inquiries please contact Pat:

patbinger @yahoo.com

970-980-7652