tracey holden Webboard User Reg: 07-17-2010
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I saw these links a Kennel Club member friend of mine posted on FB.
Does this just pay lip service to the problem, and do any of you with GSD in the ring experience think it won't change a thing here in the UK?
I freely admit I didn't know what double handling was, and having been to Crufts many times, I have never seen this practised in the gun dog rings! http://www.dogworld.co.uk/product.php/163018
In the USA the double handling in the GSD ring has always been rampart.
People running around the outside of the ring waiving favorite toys, whistling, jumping up and down, you name it.
In about 10 yrs I finished five terriers to their CH and NEVER saw it to that extent in ANY ring but the GSDs.
I was even called on it once because someone at the vendors next to the ring I was in squeaked a dog toy as I was moving my Kerry around for inspection.
The judge soon realized it wasn't intentional but it just goes to show some of the political bs in the breed ring.
Here the GSDs in the breed ring is a disgrace to the breed.
It's done for the purpose of keeping the dog looking alert and ears up when doing their "flying trot" around the ring.
That's why it's so weird to me that it's so flagrant and ignored by the judges in the GSD ring ESPECIALLY since it can get you tossed out of the ring or, at least moved to the back of the line when the judges make their choices in the other breeds.
Candi Campbell Webboard User Reg: 03-28-2013
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Quote: Bob Scott
Quote: Candi Campbell
Quote: Bob Scott
It's done for the purpose of keeping the dog looking alert and ears up when doing their "flying trot" around the ring.
ASIDE:
1) "Flying Trot", my A$$ -- Those poor CRIPPLED "hyenas" in the GSD breed ring...
2) ALL it often does is distract the dog and disrupt its gait...
3) Of course it's a Rules Violation and a DAMNED DISGRACE
IMHO, just goes to prove how many Complete Crackpots are breeding show-line GSD in the USA.
I don't recall every having seen a GSD just walking around the ring.
Seems they don't want anyone seeing that disaster.
Go to you tube and look up American GSD gait in the show ring.
I believe that every breed is typically gaited at a brisk trot in the "beauty contest" ring ... I just can't call what those poor crippled "hyenas" in the GSD breed ring do a "FLYING" trot -- Their front ends may fly, but their TRAGIC rear ends HOBBLE along Pathetically Dragging behind them And that Disaster is Visible to anyone with "eyes to see".
Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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One of the wisest things that the IPO associations ever did was to eliminate toys and training aids from the field and adjacent areas. I have seen judges and TDs even ask individuals with non-trialing dogs to move their dogs away from the fences so as not to distract the dogs on the field.
Duane Hull Webboard User Reg: 09-23-2011
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When the GSD does his gaited trot in the show ring, he should be pushing off of his back feet in an elongated stride. That is why they are bred for the exaggerated angulation... to elongate the stride. The angulated stride causes them to hobble when they walk, but it is not visible in the trot.
When the GSD trots in the show ring, the hobble is not as visible as when he is not being gaited. That is the issue that most GSD people have with showlines and show breeding.
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