The White Swiss Shepherd shows a lot of love for his master. He accepts and learns orders with great ease and docility, from the entire family, enabling his master and the family circle to appreciate his company and affection all the more.
Excellent guard dog
When a stranger enters our property, even if not for the first time, the dog starts barking to announce his arrival and to dissuade him from advancing. His barking frightens the stranger, who had better not try to pat him to try to gain the dog’s sympathy. No friendship with strangers: the dog makes no bones about that! Now that is an intelligent dog with sound principles. And it is not only strangers who cannot enter his territory in an unseemly manner; the same applies to animals living in the forest that surrounds our property: no fox comes to eat the chickens and no wild boar dares venture in our kitchen garden.
A shepherd’s instinct
A White Swiss Shepherd is not a Border Collie, but he easily knows the difference between tending horses and tending goats: he sounds the alarm immediately when a mare runs away, but knows how to prevent goats from leaving the shed when the door is open while the hay is being brought in. And when we walk the goats out, the dog follows to prevent a kid from moving away from the flock. Aware that the goats must not tread on other people’s property, he forces them to change their mind as soon as they seem to be on the verge of doing so.