German Shepherd
Under the Verein für 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. 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 old landraces herding dogs, used for cattle rather than sheep, and which are not ancestors of the modern German Shepherd (including "'"-coated dogs, cow-dogs), were also encompassed within the generic category '.