15 month WL female - critiques please - Page 1

I'm interested in critiques on this girl, if anyone is game. She's just turned 15 months. Right now, she's only 22" tall, but weighs 58lbs. According to the standard, she's a medium weight, but a small height. I'd be happy if she grew another inch, but at the same time I am not opposed to her size and height right now (obviously within standard). Has anyone ever experienced a late growth spurt after 12 months? Also, she is out of coat right now. Thanks in advance :-)







 

She's not small, she's within the FCA standard size -55 to 60 cm.

I like her - nice head and expression, very nice ear set, medium dark eye, very good feet. Next time try not to stretch her rear so far, try to keep the back hock perpendicular to the ground. Also try to set her elbow directly under the highest point of her withers. Pretty dog.

Thanks Blitzen. This was probably the 50th some odd time I stacked her, so at that point I was grateful she stood still lol.

I say small only because she's barely over the smallest allowed height. Perhaps I should say smaller side of the standard? You are right, though, she is not small. My head just wants to assume that for her height she'd weigh less LOL

Nice color, beautiful length of neck and topline, looks balanced for her age with nice rear angulation a bit of a steep croup, but still OK.  a very pretty face.  Nice girl.  Good luck with her, not sure about the growth patterns in the working lines, have experienced growth in a german show line male later after teenager months but wasn't much height, mostly filling out and muscle gain.  Nan

Blitzen said: ​ try to set her elbow directly under the highest point of her withers

Highest point of withers is marked with the red arrow


I think Blitzen is correct in her note so that you get her in correct position for evaluation of her front assembly a anglesngles.
If you follow up what She said the perpendicular line from highest point of withers to ground is the Cayan colored line below


To set her in correct position you have to push her elbow from red line arrow point to Cayan line arrow point, this way her withers point to elbow point to pastern point will be all in perpendicular lining as Blitzen said above. But I think you will not be able to do that in the case of this female. I will explain why below.

In this case, in my honest opinion, the fault is in the females's shoulder blade, not in you wrongly positioning her. Her shoulder blade is forward placed, if you look at the red arrow it shows the position of mid point of shoulder blade, when correct position of her mid point of shoulder blade should be where the Cayan line points, an that is why you will not be able to get her elbow perpendicular with her withers.



 

Red is the actual, Cayan is the correct





That is my take on it, I could be wrong

Medium dark sable GSD female of medium size and strength. Correct proportions. Good strong head, good earset, medium dark eyes and good width of skull. Good strong neck. Good high withers, shows a dip behind her withers, good strong back, slightly long loin and slightly short chest. Good croup length and good angle, good tail and tailset, stifle needs more turn, good hocks and good tight feet. Good underline. Stands straight on front legs, good strong pasterns, needs more fore chest development, good long front upper arm but slightly steep, shoulder blade forward placed, hence the dip behind the withers. Allover a very nice looking young female.
I have a doubt you haven't measured her height from the highest point of the withers, hence you say she's small. To me she looks medium sized, maybe if you recheck her height you confirm that to us. A beautiful girl.

Ibrahim

Ibrahim, there's an AKC "trick" used mainly by sporting dog  handlers. If they have a dog with straight shoulders, they never set it up with its head held too erect. Instead, they lower the head and push/pull the dog forward as much as they can without making it look too obvious. That gives the appearance of little better shoulder layback when the dog is in show pose. When it moves out, if the judge is a good one, that image is destroyed, but many judges never see that. Perception is reality in the dog show ring.

Shoulder - smoulder.
 Can she kick ass?