HI Rachel, I went to your web site. Your dogs are very nice. Unfortunately your colors page doesn't open...but looking thru your pages, one thing I don't see is movement pictures. I am VERY willing to look into breeding my girls into NEW gene pool...however, I will not give up my American type of shoulder. I want Ruby's gait to NOT at all be compromised, and I have yet to see a working dog move like that. AND, I do know that a male should not move like a bitch, but I do not see why they can't come close. I love drive, temperament, work-ablity, great underjaw, rich pigment....but, and I have tried breeding German into my lines... I loose something everytime. Tari Kridler http://members.aol.com/kridlersgsd Home of 2003 Amer. & Can. GVX Ch. Kridler's Ruby(and her Honky Tonk pups) & her father 2 x Sel. Ch. Kridler's Quno ----- Original Message ----- From: Rachel Anderson To: showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:40 AM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: explanation of type... The SHOW ring in Germany, yes, but the limited gene/phenotype pool elsewhere? Cookie cutter type? No way.Families may be stamped with"a look", but that's normal. It's the show ring where exhibitors feel the need to breed the "type" that is currently winning, here in the USA and in Germany...just my uneducated, what do I know observation. If that were not so, then we wouldn't need to seek out judges that like our type, or try to breed something they or the National Breed warden will like. I have imported dogs from West german show, schutzhund, police lines plus Dutch police and schutzhund dogs, East (DDR) german show and schutzhund dogs, belgium show and police dogs, Czech Republic show dog, and the gene pool is alive and healthy! (and diverse)!! Here's a link to the 2002 (BSP) German National Working Dog Championship: just click on the first 5 dogs with pictures includes longcoat, sable, bi-color, bl/tan and several body types that prove the argument last week that the problem with european dogs is that there is NO consistency of type production.. http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/workresults/2002.html Here's a page of my very own "cookie cutter dogs" from the limited (good natured, now) gene pool of all the above, as well as good ol Am/Can lines in there... http://segensreich.homestead.com Also, this page of my kids: http://segensreich.homestead.com/colors.htm Which 7 dogs are American/European cross. (see answers below, but try guessing first) ----- Original Messages ----- "My contention has been for years that the argument that we are ruining the gene pool and limiting the genetic potential of the GSD is better made for our fellow enthusiasts across the sea than for our diversity of type in the US of A." "they are also going to be more dominant for getting > what you > see in their phenotype even in an outcross ( which is typical of > their breeding to > begin with ) as compared to a closer line breeding that we might do > with our > more diverse dogs?" 7 dogs American/Euro cross: Dog #1 and #40: a blend of 3 Double Siegers (84-85,86-87, 90-91 and 1989 sieger, plus Ch Janry's Chivas Regal and GV Cobert's Trollstigen dtr. Dog #15 west german work/american show Dog #20 american police lines/west german work lines Dog #29 East German work/American show/obedience Dog #30 american show lines/obedience lines, west german BSP lines Dog #37 american show/obedience lines/west german work lines Rachel & the genetically/phenotypically diverse Ark http://segensreich.homestead.com Aaronswoods-Segensreich http://www.workingdog.org ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2004. 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