thoughts on my dogs pedigree would be appritiated thanks - Page 1

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=2625081-carolin-vom-earlvill

What sort of info are you looking for? This is a German showline pedigree; I am far more comfortable critiquing working lines, but your dog at first glance appears to be well-bred (both parents are titled, which is more than I can say for the majority of breedings in the USA).

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/dog.html?id=2625081-carolin-vom-earlvill

Can someone more experienced comment on that level of line breeding.

Jen is right, classic West German showline breeding
Osterberger Land / Tal ( one breeder family ), well known for their females
The linebreeding? Not that close
Esko good for hips, not that good for pigment
Yasko good for color,drive and aggression, not that good for croup and upperarm

Good, concise info, Susie. I should file this away. Sometimes family or friends want a showline dog and ask me about them and I know very little!

TY VK for fixing the link. There is no really close linebreeding; this is a fairly typical modern German / European bred litter. Sure you aren't getting confused by the amount of one KENNEL shown on the dam's side ? Consistent breeding through, say of a bitch line (great-granny, granny, mother, daughter ) by one kennel, without all the assortment of names seen in many US pedigrees, is not at all unusual, its more the way things are done over here and the way dogs are registered and named. You can see much the same with 3 named generations of Devat bred bitches in Taz's pedigree. Plus in his case a couple of the earlier bitches don't carry the Kennel name, except maybe as a Suffix, but they were all living at the same breeder's, and all bred without over-close line breeding, or being tightly related other than on the mother/daughter basis...The coefficient shows the line breeding is on 4 different dogs, so there are crossings-in from other family/kennel lines, right, left & centre. Any other repetitions of dogs are so far back (beyond Generation 7) that they have much less effect.