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Ah. Now there might be an issue. I've been around GSDs my entire life and none of them have liked cats very much. Admittedly, one of them did try to make friends with our cat, only to end up with some serious claw marks, after which he just used to chase her. I don't think he was seriously trying to kill her, as the way he went after her was entirely different from the way he'd do after stray dogs that wandered into the yard; I think it was more along the lines of, "Let's see how fast you can run, bitch!"
Another one loathed cats with a passion and would try to kill them, the only jarring trait in the gentlest, most mild-mannered dog of any breed I'd ever met. As he was retrieved from a security trainer who tried to make him vicious through beating him and various other forms of violence (and only succeeded in turning him into a nervous wreck of a dog that eventually calmed to become the biggest girl's blouse you'd ever seen in your life) we suspect that the trainer had used cats to bait him. There's another lesson for you: be very, very careful about picking your security trainer.
The current dog we have loathes cats, even though she's never actually had to live with one. She does have a weird friendship going with an orange tom from the house next door so she is prepared to make exceptions.
I honestly can't say that a GSD is a good one to have around cats but I think that if you get a pup and you have friendly cats (that won't scratch the hell out of it if it comes too close), it can at least learn to tolerate them as part of the family. Same goes for all dogs, really.
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