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Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jantie! What a wonderful animation! What does the starting point of the animation represent? A wolf, or an "old fashioned" GSD?

I remember you from your paper, "The Bottleneck of the Century". If anyone wants to visit Jantie's website, here is the link (from her previous posts on that paper.)

http://www.bloggen.be/hd/archief.php?ID=23772

BEEN CALLED A HUNCH BACK AND A HUMP BACK. NEVER BEEN CALLED A ROACH BACK.

from what i could see from her pedigree and her , she looks to me like she will have a straight back.
roach  has  a round look to it.
she is young and yes it can change yet.
the demo  is really good on the right kind of back.
it always stays straight.
i have a female with one of the straightest backs i have seen in a while.
she looks like the herding style shep.

Hi all!
Due to the sudden demise of both my Dad and my down-syndrome-sister Martine, I have been knocked out for quite a while and had to take care of the rest of my family. Thus my latest Paper, which would have been released for Christmas, will be published only in a couple of days or so (both in German AND English).

My paper will elaborate on different items that went completely wrong within the SV, and offer testimonies of some very important (resigning) gsd-fans. Hope you all will be able to read it soon.

I wish to add, just for fun, another animation taken from my paper, which is showing what would have happened to another "trotter", should horse breeders have taken the same road as the SV did.
The animation shows the same wonderful back of the GSD as it slopes down, nice and easy! Isn't that a wonderful creation? Isn't it pleasing to the eye? Doesn't it enhance the working abilities of this animal? Judge for yourselves!
And ask yourself, why your last GSD had CHD.

I would hate to be the jockey of this one!
 




At Sunsilver: the starting point of the first animation is the (wonderful and healthy) profile of the GSD as it was featured on the judging cards of DDR-judges (the so-called "Boniturkarten") until, as far as I know, the moment the DDR ceased to exist and Germany was united (1989).
It can be found in different books like the ones from Werner Dalm.
Hi Animules! Hope all is well with you too!
Talk to you all later!
Jantie (John = male)

Jantie,

That horse is too funny!  But it gets the point across!  Looking forward to reading your paper.  So, so sorry to hear about your Dad and sister.  That would knock anyone out for a while!  Thanks so very much for taking time to respond to my thread.

Deb

Jantie--Awesome animations...poor horse!  My Kali has a back that very gently slopes when she stands naturally, & when stacked, & I don't ask for an extreme stack, her back slopes just a little more, but it is a gentle slope, not a curve, until you get to her tail. I've been told her topline is almost perfect...my working line male's back is level, until he trots, then his haunches seem to lower, and you can see that slope. Even stacked, he looks level backed.

To the OP, you have a very handsome Showline male, with a nice topline...if he were stacked you might see a little 'slope'...that meets the standard. If you stacked him in an extreme stack, I'm thinking you would still have a fairly sloped back, but that could change as he gets older. He's very cute though, why worry about it? Tell your husband he meets the standard, and that's all there is to it! Enjoy him! jackie harris

Excellant! thank you so much for sharing! I read your blog fondly.

Great animations, Jantie. I'm sorry about your father and sister. That's enough to delay anyone for a while. Until I read your reply to sunsilver, I thought the starting point of the GSD was the 1960s style GSD - they looked a lot like the DDR dogs back when GSDs all pretty much looked alike. I look forward to reading your paper.

Bob-O is sensible as usual and a breath of fresh air.

Keep in mind also that when a dog, any dog, is nervous or scared (heaven forbid any of our GSDs should ever be!) but when they are, dogs tend to hunch up which makes them look roached. Labs look roached when scared, just to mention a breed that doesn't have a problem with roached backs.