FANTASTIC! I'm happy for you.Thank you everyone who has responded and thank you for your kind words about losing Riley. It's been hard and lonely.
We just found out a couple days ago that a woman that we knew who our kids went to high school together years ago started raising German Shepherds and and she has an upcoming litter that will be born at the end of October. So it looks like by the end of the year that we are going to have a GSD puppy
Is your preference for a male, female, doesn't matter?
As a backup plan, you might think... Weimaraner