[ SHOWGSD-L ] Fwd: Re: P.R./ bad backs & rears & color
- From: Ken Tank <tanksr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: showgsd gsd <Showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:09:31 -0700
I have to take issue with a lot of this, Carolyn, it's simply not true. Most
of the sites with German dogs are promoting their breeding just like
everyone else. You are doing exactly what you accuse them of doing.
We need to breed good dogs and promote them. Bashing someone else's breeding
only reflects poorly on the basher.
Ken
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Carolyn Martello <marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> This is a great post and really brings out what really IS a big part of
> the problem!
> The P.R against American Bred vs. German bred has a tremendous influence.
> The German Bred
> dogs have a lot of promotion that is FOR them...... and against American
> Bred dogs. Typically we
> don't waste our time bashing the European dogs the way they do us and our
> dogs.
> Most of the sites with the German dogs START... with mentioning the
> "crippled" sloping backs and
> rears of the American bred with their weak rears and weak temperament.
> AND.... for some reason..... because they breed IMPORTS from Germany, our
> American pet buyer
> believes they are more "right" than we are. Seems to be a current
> Phenomenon.........<G>
> You cannot find ONE American site that bashes their dogs!
> When people call us and are worried about "all that slope" because we
> tell them we utilize mainly
> American lines....and they've been told thesse dogs are all
> "crippled"......I tell them two things.....
> FIRST....those are the show puppies and the pet buyers probably won't get
> one anyway........<G>
> SECOND .... I tell them that our GSD are about # 47 DOWN on the List of
> dogs with bad hips and they
> only need look at the Breeds with level backs and squared off rears to see
> that they are the other
> 46 Breeds over the GSD with hip problems....
> THEN.....we invite them out to visit the dogs if they are interested in
> meeting them and seeing show dogs
> and those "awful weak sloping rears". First thing they usually say is
> WOW...look how they move...
> <G>
> Truthfully it never ceases to amaze me that ANYONE can get past the
> backs....and the rear on the
> German dogs are almost all cow hocked with toes that point out in the
> rear....because they are so
> restricted with no flexibility.
> They have Gorgeous Breed type!!! But at second glance....
> SERIOUSLY.....take away that
> incredible color and I'm not even so sure about THAT!
> Visualize your most favorite photo of a beautiful German dog as a common
> black and cream with
> hardly any facial markings.....or as a Bi Color, and suddenly they would
> not be so appealing.....<G>
> They have truly mastered color and facial markings.
>
> Carolyn marhaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.Marhaven.com <http://www.marhaven.com/>
>
>
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