Blondi profoundly distraught when he lost him. He had been given a German Shepherd before named "Prinz" in 1921, during his years of poverty, but he had been forced to lodge the dog elsewhere. However, she managed to escape and return to him. Hitler, who adored the loyalty and obedience of the dog, thereafter developed a great liking for the breed. He also owned a German Shepherd called "Muckl". Before Blondi, Hitler had two German Shepherd dogs, a mother [born 1926] and daughter [born ca. 1930] – both named Blonda. In some photos taken during the 1930s the younger Blonda is
Old German herding dogs Deutsche Schäferhunde (Society for the German Shepherd Dog), the long-haired variant of the German Shepherd Dog for a long time was not accepted. This changed in 2009. Since 2010, the long-haired type has been accepted. Previously, breeders of the long-haired variant of the German Shepherd had founded their own kennel clubs, and had called their longer-coated standardised breed the "Old German Shepherd Dog", too. So shepherds, farmers, and other owners of the threatened landraces who were attempting to standardise their varieties renamed the ' ('old German shepherd dogs') umbrella term to ' ('old German herding dogs', literally 'old-German herd-dogs'). Other