Cathy Goessman Webboard User Reg: 12-03-2007
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I'd like to see some photos of the dog out of a stack although that spine looks odd. You can make even solid working line dogs look deformed by show stacking them.
Cathy Goessman Webboard User Reg: 12-03-2007
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Just watched a video of that dog. It looks like it's crawling with the back feet while the front are just thrown forward. Also seems like it has an asymmetrical gait. Not good.
Hopefully something will come of this but I doubt it.
I spent over 15 yrs in the show ring with a number of my terriers and the occasional dog for someone else.
The GSD ring was always disgusting to watch.
I was even asked to move away from the ring because I had an un entered dog.
I was standing and watching with my OB competition GSD so I less the politely told him to go make love to himself......or something similar and he stomped off in a fit.
In the USA the excessive rear angulation is more the norm and the banana back as seen in the article is more common in the European countries.
I used to try and talk to some of them but all I ever got was "we've improved the breed".
Look at the construction and gait of a wolf or coyote and see what nature intended.
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Hopefully something will come of this but I doubt it. I spent over 15 yrs in the show ring with a number of my terriers and the occasional dog for someone else. The GSD ring was always disgusting to watch. I was even asked to move away from the ring because I had an un entered dog. I was standing and watching with my OB competition GSD so I less the politely told him to go make love to himself......or something similar and he stomped off in a fit. In the USA the excessive rear angulation is more the norm and the banana back as seen in the article is more common in the European countries. I used to try and talk to some of them but all I ever got was "we've improved the breed". Look at the construction and gait of a wolf or coyote and see what nature intended.
If that's improvement I want nothing to do with it! Maybe I'm weird,but I prefer a dog that doesn't walk on its haunches.
And I bet back when you wre showing the GSDs weren't anywhere near as extreme as they are today.
Well, I had just composed a long post, and with a single misplaced keystroke, lost the entire thing.
That's just as well. I'll keep my personal feelings out of this. It is a fact (not an opinion) that this is nothing new, the conformation ring GSD has looked like this for decades, getting more extreme as time goes on. And in all fairness, it is not just the GSD. There are many breeds out there where things like form and function and good health have been sacrificed for show-ring fad and fashion.
That's just as well. I'll keep my personal feelings out of this. It is a fact (not an opinion) that this is nothing new, the conformation ring GSD has looked like this for decades, getting more extreme as time goes on. And in all fairness, it is not just the GSD. There are many breeds out there where things like form and function and good health have been sacrificed for show-ring fad and fashion.
You bring up a good point, Cheri. I suppose, all things considered, just about all of the dogs we currently have are the result of various levels of selective breeding and genetic manipulation, some more so than others. One has to wonder, though, where is the limit? I don't want to take away from the fact that kennel clubs and dog organizations worldwide have probably done wonderful things in the areas of research on disease and genetic defects in dogs. However, this situation we see here sure makes me lose sight of the good things that have been done and just leaves me disgusted with them and the judges who let this happen by rewarding it.
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