[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: National TT
- From: Rbuffdogs@xxxxxxx
- To: InquestGSD@xxxxxxx, ELG440@xxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:18:12 EDT
In a message dated 7/14/2006 6:54:09 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
InquestGSD@xxxxxxx writes:
This from the Goldbecker and Hart book (my favorite GSD book):
"Time brings faults and virtues to a breed which must be recognized and the
standard changed in certain particulars to accommodate new values.
Evaluation of new trends should be qualified not only by cosmetic
applications, but by
genetic implications as well. Thus, faults which are of an inheritable
nature should be penalized far more severely than those which are
transient".
I can't argue with that.>>>>>>>>>>>
Nice job Ileana,
Temperament IS genetic, as genetic as coat color, height , drive, work
ethic.......I can take a dog that won't herd (although I would prefer it did) I
can take a dog that wont do a heel pattern, I can take a dog that wont do a
weave pole.....those are individual issues, not mentioned in our Standard by
name. Personally, I like to think and we strive to use dogs that give us good
work ethic, and the athletic ability to do many jobs....but I digress....
TEMPERAMENT, CHARACTER ARE an integral part of the standard, and what makes
a good GSD, so we should be vigilant, and ever striving to improve same...not
just satisfied with getting by and oh well some "slipped through".....
When you ask John Q Public who dreamily remembers a GSD of childhood, it is
overwhelmingly the TEMPERAMENT, AND CHARACTER, that is the hallmark of that
memory, that fondness for the dog. Second only to breedtype. I can NEVER
recall a person (John Q. ) saying to me, "Oh yeah we had a GSD years
ago....boy could that sucker sidegait....we didn't even mind that he was a
nervous
wreck" LOLOLOL..
We are one of the few countries that doesn't require MORE of its top
conformation dogs, it top representatives for the given year. We
(collectively)
seem to want to rest on the laurels of well...it passed enough to make a
champion under 3 judges.....or we can't be bothered , or surely judges would
never
put up a spooky / nervous dog, and surely breeders would never breed to an
unstable animal???? Then we wake up.
If nobody is breeding to dogs of faulty temperament, and the some owners
aren't entering them, and the some judges aren't putting them up......then
where
do they come from?????? And why wouldn't we want to eliminate the dogs
(that apparently don't exist, ) from contention for top honors at our top
show?
What are we afraid of?????"?"?"?"??
Kathy
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