[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Movement
- From: Vicki Roye <vicki.roye@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Pam Stoesser <pkstoesser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:29:11 -0500
Bravo, Pam!!!!!
Vicki Roye
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 16, 2012, at 11:39 AM, "Pam Stoesser" <pkstoesser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just some random thoughts about this topic on a dreary Friday.
>
> "Terrible movement" can only be seen if you know what good movement is
> supposed to be. And it seems to me that you can only know what "good" and
> "terrible" are by being a student of the Standard. I have shown National
> videos to friends with only a passing interest in dogs and had them generally
> be able to pick out the ones that 'cover the most amount of ground with the
> least amount of effort' if they are shown at a moderate speed. Breakneck
> speed makes it a whole lot harder!
>
> The Standard says that the gait is "outreaching, elastic, seemingly without
> effort, smooth and rhythmic, covering the maximum amount of ground with the
> minimum number of steps' and "feet travel close to the ground". Watch a GSD
> on an agility course or herding. Correct structure and bad structure are
> both pretty evident there. I really admire those who are competitive in both
> performance and conformation. For many folks however, it's an issue of both
> time and money. Nonetheless, shouldn't we want our dogs to conform to the
> Standard as much as possible, no matter the venue?
>
> Reading the 'discussion' here where people with performance dogs have said
> that their dogs shouldn't have to meet the basic requirements of the Standard
> (the part about disqualifying faults) - somehow seems to imply that the
> German Shepherds shown "just" in performance are somehow second-class GSDs,
> which I devoutly hope NO ONE believes. I've seen some beautifully correct
> dogs in the performance rings, some with and some without Ch in front of
> their names. The purpose of the breed ring is to demonstrate the physical
> conformance to the Standard with some basic indication of mental soundness.
> I think the performance venues demonstrate more strongly the mental
> conformance to the Standard.
>
> Somewhere the buying public has gotten the idea that they also should have
> something less than a conformed puppy. . . "oh, I don't want a show dog; I
> just want a pet." . . . or "oh, I don't need a show dog; I just want to do
> obedience." It's the same Standard. It's the same breed. It's the dog that
> truly can "do it all" and it smart enough to do anything we ask of it.
>
> It seems to me that everything we do with this breed depends on the Standard.
> I talked to someone the other day that had bred 2 litters without ever
> reading the breed Standard. I was stunned by that.
>
> Don't we all want to see correct ("good" by definition) movement from this
> breed? Don't we want to see correct temperament and character from this
> breed? But we have to know what those are.
>
> For me, it is painful to look at a GSD puppy that is so far from conforming
> to the Standard that it looks like some other breed. It is even more painful
> to see the lack of character that has 3-month old puppies lunging at the end
> of a leash barking at everything that moves and trying to bite and kill
> anything that comes in range of their jaws or trying to crawl up the owner's
> back because it's so frightened.
>
> There are no perfect GSDs. But I think we have to keep trying to conform to
> the Standard.
>
> Back to work. . .
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Vicki Roye
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 8:58 AM
> To: ELG440@xxxxxxx
> Cc: showgsd-l digest users
> Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Movement
>
> With all due respect, there are a lot of breed champions who can show us what
> terrible movement is all about.
>
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