Steel Magnolia White Shepherds is a small family kennel devoted exclusively to developing and promoting the White Shepherd.  I (Dale Malony) have been married to the warm and gracious Laurie for almost 10 years as of Jan. 2005.  We have 2 precious young girls - Sarah Joy (age 5) and Jessica Grace (age 2).  Laurie stays home with the girls, and I work 2nd shift for Honda of America Mfg.

White Shepherds have been a passionate hobby of mine for over 4 years now.  You can read about my beginnings in this hobby in the first article I wrote for the UKC Bloodlines magazine.  I gave up golf for this hobby - something that I could do more at home and with my family and still be supremely challenged by.


Sarah is learning to show dogs and Diana, of Von Tasz, is now known as "Aunt Diana" to her.  It gets the judges attention when suddenly a pumped up 5 year old bursts into cheer - "GO DIANA !! GO DIANA !!... "as she runs the ring.  Cheering sections are rare at such events.  Of course, I get an enthusiatic,  "GO DADDY !! GO DADDY !!  GO DADDY !!".  Sarah is maybe the most enthusiatic child on this planet.


Sky (above), is our first White Shepherd - a very muscular and athletic girl more like a linebacker than a dancer.  Sky - also a great mother - whelped her first litter of 8 puppies in June 2004, one of which I fell so in love with that I could not get myself to part with him.  He is "Steel Man in Black" - call name "CASH" - in tribute to Johnny Cash: The Man in Black.



Cash is proving to be every bit as wonderful as I sensed he'd be.  He is already taller than his mother at only 8 months.  I expect him to weigh about 100 lbs and to be one of the more masculine looking male Shepherds I've seen.  He is deep chested, broad shouldered and I expect his head to fill out quite impressively as it was broader than the rest of the pups in his litter, all of which also had good heads.


One of the most common questions I hear is "Are White Shepherds good with children?".  A simple answer - well bred ones are.  Read my article - "White Shepherds and Children" - to get a much more involved answer.

The picture at left shows my 2 year old daughter ,Jessica, with Cash and I on Christmas morning.  So long as he doesn't chew her toys, she loves him.  Jessica is the tenderhearted one of the two.  She's as gentle as Sarah is rough, and she's the one who cries her eyes out when each pup goes home with it's permanent family.

Cash has one significant disadvantage from the perspective of a breeder - he's a boy.  A male is not an asset to a small breeder, especially considering that it will be years before I'll have enough genetic information about him to decide whether to breed him.

I needed to add another female - which I plan to do every 2-3 years.  We bought "Emma" from Ronda Beaupre of Regalwise in Kansas.  Emma is a product of Ronda's long term project to improve White Shepherd temperament by crossing to Schutzhund titled dogs and selecting for outstanding temperament in each generation.  Emma is noticeably spunkier than average and obviously confident.  I've hammer drilled through concrete next to her and she doesn't flinch - in fact, she's fascinated by it.  I LOVE her personality.

Dale@SteelShepherd.com