Mike J Schoonbrood Webboard User Reg: 04-30-2005
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Access to dogs is the biggest difference. There's good and bad dogs on both sides of the water, but studding to the German championship dog (for example) is a 3 hour drive vs. a 9 hour flight + shipping + plane tickets + return shipping etc.
There is also more selection of good breeders that have lots and lots of experience. There are those in the US with that experience and quality of dogs too, but people aren't breeding every month and sometimes the "right" litter takes a long time to find when your selection is limited.
Ofcourse then there is also the theory that the best dogs stay in Europe. Afterall, as a breeder, you have a club member getting a puppy and a guy in the US getting a puppy -- who gets the better dog? The guy you see every week or the guy you will probably never see? So perhaps your odds of getting the better puppy bred in the US goes up.
what about things you hear like dogs coming from europe being unpapered, and sometimes mixed? Being more focused on overall health, and the ability to work, some mals have been crossed with gsd's back in the line, etc....
don't know how common that is, but if the dogs come unpapered, how can you know? does it even really matter in the long run if the dog is amazing at his work??
Mike J Schoonbrood Webboard User Reg: 04-30-2005
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If you buy an unpapered dog you are generally buying the dog for performance, in which case it doesn't matter. With the exception of KNPV, in which case just about every dog is unpapered and the breeds are all somehow intertwined with eachother at some point or another, in which case it is just one of those things you accept by owning a KNPV dog. The bloodlines are tracked unofficially, so you know which dogs are in the pedigree (usually accurate), its just not AKC registerable. The people that choose unpapered dogs are generally doing so for very specific reasons, and in the case of KNPV, the dogs lineage isn't completely unknown.
GSD/Mal crosses seem to be getting popular in Czech Republic and Slovakia, but they are generally sold to police departments, where pedigrees are unimportant.
David C.Frost Webboard User Reg: 01-23-2002
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Quote: Mallory Kwiatkowski
that makes sense....
what about things you hear like dogs coming from europe being unpapered, and sometimes mixed? Being more focused on overall health, and the ability to work, some mals have been crossed with gsd's back in the line, etc....
don't know how common that is, but if the dogs come unpapered, how can you know? does it even really matter in the long run if the dog is amazing at his work??
Speaking strictly as a (purchaser) user, I buy them strictly for performance. As long as they are healthy, I can have my own health checks done, and they are able to perform, I don't care about papers. I have several imports that fit that bill.
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