Well we all know even in our Czech lines that once in a while we have a long hair pop up, nothing wrong with them in my opinion. We have many people here that love long haired German Shepherds, but I don't try to produce them as I was always told that it was a fault, but until recently with the SV accepting them as dogs that can get registrations for. We have breeders here in the U.S. that only breed for this type of coat and then we could get into a whole other discussion, but for now I would like to say the dog is rather good looking