[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: VA-1 Yasko von Farbenspiel l_o_n_g
- From: Diane Wright <Diwri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 11:31:07 -0400
I cannot begin to add to Susan's critique...she had her hands on him a couple
of times for a few
moments & from her post, you'd think she'd smuggled in a protractor & measuring
tape! ;-) She
understands anatomy & structure far better than I... I only know what I like &
what I don't ;-)
Yasko is owned by someone in FL (I hear) and managed (?) by Bill Fleischer & is
currently hanging out
at a GSD working lines kennel north of Dallas.
His TX guardian was difficult to reach. The rumor mill said that she did not
return phone calls...
through very limited experience, this would seem true. Susan called and left
messages multiple times
for three days with no result. Finally caught her at her job and was able to
make an appointment to
view the dog.
On the phone, Yasko's guardian wasn't too encouraging about seeing him. She
told Susan
(paraphrasing) that he was no big deal and that "he was just a dog... he sheds
& farts". When we
arrived, we were told that they'd put Yasko out in the side yard. It was a
secure yard with tall
cedar fencing with a section of iron bars that allowed you to look inside. I
was afraid we weren't
going to be allowed IN. We were ;-)
Yasko was let into the yard, and then the guardian came over & unlocked the
iron gate. Not a woof as
we peered thru the gate or as we entered. He wagged his tail as the guardian
unlocked the gate
(thinking of a potential car ride perhaps) and sniffed the air to see if we had
brought a female GSD
along. He glanced briefly at us as and that was it.
He wasn't handled, gaited or stacked for us, just allowed to be a (shedding &
farting) dog.
If there was a video dictionary, this dog would've been describing ALOOF. He
was not a Golden. He
didn't drool all over us like we had been separated for weeks. He didn't
display hesitancy that some
people think is aloof. He didn't 'eye' us, he didn't try to sneak a sniff as
he trotted by, he
didn't keep looking at his guardian for advice and he knew VERY well we were
there.
By just saying his name or snapping your fingers, he was at your side. Again,
not in a love-starved
Golden way. I sat on the step of the deck, and he would come up and look into
my eyes, as if he was
trying to determine my temperament. I scratched his chest & found a good spot,
which he enjoyed, but
that was not enough to win him over.
He has a remarkable presense. Occasionally judge's critiques in the Review
will say 'the dog asked
for it'. Whatever Yasko has must be what the judges were trying to put into
words.
You could not take your eyes off him.
It was hard to keep your hands off him ;-) He was 'just a dog' the way DaVinci
just drew pictures.
His photos do not do him justice, the photos do not capture the presense. They
might capture the RED
of his black & red coat. ;-)
His guardian said he was more red when he was in coat. She said he was naked
right now. Yasko had
enough coat naked to make Jack look like he needed Rogaine for dogs. ;-) (Of
course this comparison
helps if you know Jack.... )
I've not seen an awful lot of well-known dogs. I've touched even fewer. So my
2 cents is probably
worth exactly that ;-) I can think of only one animal I've ever seen that
haunted my memory the way
this one does, and that started because of his photo.
Adjectives don't seem to work when trying to describe this dog. To say he was
gorgeous doesn't fit,
because that makes me think sorta feminine... and he wasn't. Handsome doesn't
fit because that makes
me think less than gorgeous... and he wasn't. The only description I can agree
on is RED. ;-)
I don't know diddly about German line dogs. When I first learned Susan was
going to try to see him,
I didn't know who he was. Still don't... yeah, he was Germany's Sieger
twice... but what years?
Who's he out of?? I went with a little more enthusiasm than if Susan had told
me we were going to
see a number one White Shepherd. (Apologies to white Shepherd people.) The same
breed, yet different
enough to not care.
Yasko will be 7 this year and does NOT look, move or act like a has-been. I
don't understand the
German way of discarding their "old" dogs. In that, they must be nuts. In
choosing him #1 twice,
they were not...
Diane
You can see his photo on
http://www.fleischerheim.com/Yasko.htm
if you click on his progeny page... you can see an informal portrait style
photo of him.
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