[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Who are we kidding?
- From: EKOLAN1@xxxxxxx
- To: MarcatoGSD@xxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:40:18 EST
In a message dated 12/17/2005 5:07:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, Marcato GSD
writes
Number 1 no dog is perfect. But Madam <G> all the things you mention below
are quite clear. If the handlers and the judge chose not to follow these
guidelines it has NOTHING to do with interpretation. Now the very explicit
standard may be ignored but it's a stretch to call it misinterpretation. Tell
me
which part of the standard you cited did you not understand. I understand it I
may not be able to find a dog that represents it perfectly but i'll try.
Fred M.
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For example Monsieur, I interpret "The withers are higher than and sloping
into the level back. The back is straight, very strongly developed without sag
or roach, and relatively short." to mean a dog that looks like this when
stacked: _http://www.fluffyrat.net/wildfyre/GSD.GIF_
(http://www.fluffyrat.net/wildfyre/GSD.GIF)
Not a dog whose butt heads south for the winter.
And I interpret "The whole assembly of the thigh, viewed from the side, is
broad, with both upper and lower thigh well muscled, forming as nearly as
possible a right angle."
To mean NEARLY a right angle, not EXACTLY as I see so many these days, which
takes away from the structure of the dog, as they now have an excessive
amount of thigh/stifle bone, which takes move time to move and follow through
in
the rear, and thus, there goes the drive, because the dog can't extend
properly
The metatarsus (the unit between the hock joint and the foot) is short,
strong and tightly articulated.
Which I take to mean as "The dog shouldn't be able, or shouldn't HAVE to put
his entire hock on the floor to support his body weight."
The ideal dog in the picture does not place his whole hock on the ground, he
does not have an excessive slope to his topline, and his rear does not have
a bunch of right angles. This is the style of dog I wish to breed for when I
finally get that far.
This is where interpretations differe, and where style comes into play.
In a message dated 12/17/2005 3:43:41 PM Central Standard Time,
EKOLAN1@xxxxxxx writes:
I would like some
one to point out the places in it where you can have much of a different
interpretation.
- Jackie
Marcato Shepherds
Where it's about function, not flash
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