[ SHOWGSD-L ] Your Lyin' eyes.... breed type vs style
- From: GSD0110@xxxxxxx
- To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:04:18 EST
There is an old country song about a guy who was parked behind a bar with a
woman who was not his wife; however, his wife did show up and see him with the
other "lady". When he gets home he tries to tell his wife that regardless of
what she saw it was NOT him. The title of the song was "Are You Gonna Take
My Word Or Believe Your Lyin' Eyes?"
Why are the words to a song which never became a popular hit relevant to
German Shepherd Dogs? The answer is simple: eyes do often lie.
I remember seeing a dog in specials at the National a few years ago. Before
they went in the ring, I thought he was the most correct beautiful dog I had
ever seen. After watching him gait; however, I saw that he pounded the
ground in front. That incident taught me that even though my eyes said that
dog
was correct; his movement told me otherwise. He was so pretty that he went
Select that day....Being a pretty Select still didn't make him correct but it
did make him a popular stud dog.
I have one criteria for picking puppies from a litter.... movement.... I'll
take a chance that the "ugly" puppy who can move will grow up to become
"pretty" ;because I know that the pretty puppy who can't move will not grow up
to
be a mover. Because no matter what my eyes tell me when he/she is
standing...movement doesn't lie.....he/she must BE correct to move correctly.
And it
doesn't matter how pretty a dog is: if he doesn't move correctly he isn't
correct.
Gary Lewis
Garter GSD's
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