[ SHOWGSD-L ] I try to see the other side
- From: ELG440@xxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 10:49:27 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 8/6/11 4:14:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx writes:
Pretty simple to me; breed to improve and I still, for the life of me
don't
see where breeding to a dog WITH or deliberately breeding FOR
disqualifications fits into a sound breeding plan. I've often referred
to a breed
standard (any breed's standard BTW) as a blueprint. Me...I'll follow the
blueprint.
I have been thinking about this, (shut up Paul) as I was asked if I would
let one of my males breed to a White.
I have decided I would.
Would you let your stud dog breed to a fantastic bitch who had a hanging
ear? What about a beautiful looking bitch who didn't have the best
sidegait, (a fault in movement), would you breed her? Or, a tail that had to
be
cropped due to cancer or her swinging it in the crate too much causing injury.
What if a bitch had bit a judge or just attemepted to bite the judge and
therefore was disqualified, would you then have her spayed and placed in a
pet home?
What about a bitch with an undershot jaw, should she be sold as a pet if
everything else about her was fantastic? And, let's not even talk about a
bitch with a nose not predominantly black.
There are disqualifying faults, (not the fault in movement).
It seems clear to me that if you are breeding to improve the breed, you try
to breed away from faults, but you don't ignore the other qualities the
bitch or dog might have. If the breeders of a White like some I saw at their
National wanted to improve the breed by breeding to a quality dog, then
they should not be discouraged.
I am encouraged by the dedication and knowlege I saw by those who lived to
support white shepherds. Those dogs are still, (to date) German shepherds
and we should recognize them as such. Or for those who are so passionate
about keeping the Whites away, we should take them out of our gene pool and
like the Germans, refuse to even accept them as German shepherds.
We should be trying to improve the breed, not segregate a portion of it,
that does not please our esthetic senses.
I am deeply troubled, (maybe not that deeply) that we want to exclude the
Whites from winning the awards at the national, keep them out of the
conformation ring, not let them go their own way with a separate breed, and
still
insist they have to remain within our breed.
Maybe a bit of tolerance might be a new way to look at this. Perhaps we
should all walk a mile in white shoes.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Evan Ginsburg
Asgard German Shepherds
http://www.asgardgsd.com/
Where Type Movement and Temperament come together
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