I would like to thank Mr. Wulkow, Berlin, for his contribution "Der Zuchtwart" (the studward) and would like to comment on the execution of the last third. In the Christmas edition of our club news I announced that from January 1, 1958, only dogs, Miniature Spitzes with the colors black, white, brown, gray and orange, and for Giant Spitz the colors black, white, brown, gray (Wolfspitz) were allowed for breeding. It was time for this measure, that animals other than black and brown are no longer allowed to be bred together, since before January 1, 1958, every young animal that was bred under different colors received a pedigree under the color designation “different colored”. This caused, for example, in the mating between black and orange young animals were born that were, for example, black and received a pedigree for black, the others that were orange received a pedigree "orange" and those that had a mixed color received "a different color". If breeding continued with this black animal, it was inevitable that the later young animals would be born black or of a different color, and if we had not taken this measure to breed only pure colors, we would have been up to... 10 or 20 years in the future, our standard colors black, white and brown were so blurred that we would have suffered such a dilution even in these colors, which have been bred for decades, that these standard types would soon become a rarity. When Mr. Wulkow writes, where is the little gray-clouded Spitz?, I clearly described this as the color gray and I can't imagine that the color of a Wolfsspitz could be described as anything other than gray.

In the future, there can no longer be any question of a color scale in our Spitz breeding - as Mr. Wulkow mentions - since we in Germany are responsible for the standard of the German Spitz.

I am firmly convinced that foreign breeders who conduct their Spitz breeding with correctness and expertise will also welcome this measure, through which we will preserve the purity of German Spitz breeding in its colors.

Mr. Wulkow, who ironically uses the final sentence "this is what the support of German Spitz breeding looks like," unfortunately, as an old member, has not understood what it is about, and I certainly believe that this sentence would be better suited to my order.

Heinz Schwaderer, general studward