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by Sunsilver on 07 January 2013 - 16:01
Hundmutter, yes, there are a lot of 'wannabe' Shilohs out there that are nothing more than poorly bred mixes! Some of these dogs even have unknown ancestors in the pedigree. When Tina was alive, she'd go into fits about this. You can't establish a new breed by constantly outcrossing, as some of these people are doing.
Like I said, caveat emptor!
Hundmutter wrote: (although yes there still have been some big bitches about).
[bites tongue]
[backs away from keyboard.... ]
Like I said, caveat emptor!
Hundmutter wrote: (although yes there still have been some big bitches about).
[bites tongue]
[backs away from keyboard.... ]
by Hundmutter on 07 January 2013 - 18:01
LOL
by roblew1 on 08 January 2013 - 03:01
hundmutter, I do not post for drama. If you are wright then you are right., no big deal. I come here first to learn.
In the south they call it soda and the north they say pop, no matter what its a drink. Im just stating what is see in my area. happy new years and stay positive to alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
In the south they call it soda and the north they say pop, no matter what its a drink. Im just stating what is see in my area. happy new years and stay positive to alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
by mrdarcy on 08 January 2013 - 14:01
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by Rico on 08 January 2013 - 15:01
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by Sunsilver on 08 January 2013 - 15:01
What a gorgeous head! Is that a King shepherd, Rico?
by DanicaBeckefeld on 08 January 2013 - 16:01
It's not a marketing ploy. People are fed up with horrid sloped back GSDs and are trying to make a healthier straight backed GSD. The GSD was and is meant to be straight backed. I have very old books that have detail drawings
and old black and white pictures showing straight backs as right and sloped backs as faulty. Stupid show people who did not care about their dog's health bred their dogs to have severaly sloped backs as they liked how the sloped backed GSDs trot around the rings like little horses. I say if they like the horse like trots so darn much, then they should get out of dog breeding/showing and into horse breeding/showing. Those sloped backs are the reason for hip dysplasia and other joint problems in GSD now. It's gotten so bad that many in police, military and private security companies have stopped using GSDs and are now using other straight back dogs like Dutch Shepherds and Belgian Malinois.
So true GSD lovers have no choice but to try and save the breed by breeding it to other straight backed breeds. Thus the true reason why there are King Shepherds, Shiloh Shepherds and other new GSD cross breeds. These sloped backs dogs, bring nothing but ruin to the GSD. If you really love the breed then stop breeding, buying or showing those sloped back mutants. They are not sound and usually have horrid temperments as well. Not to mention the severe inbreeding in them causes even more mutations and health problems.
and old black and white pictures showing straight backs as right and sloped backs as faulty. Stupid show people who did not care about their dog's health bred their dogs to have severaly sloped backs as they liked how the sloped backed GSDs trot around the rings like little horses. I say if they like the horse like trots so darn much, then they should get out of dog breeding/showing and into horse breeding/showing. Those sloped backs are the reason for hip dysplasia and other joint problems in GSD now. It's gotten so bad that many in police, military and private security companies have stopped using GSDs and are now using other straight back dogs like Dutch Shepherds and Belgian Malinois.
So true GSD lovers have no choice but to try and save the breed by breeding it to other straight backed breeds. Thus the true reason why there are King Shepherds, Shiloh Shepherds and other new GSD cross breeds. These sloped backs dogs, bring nothing but ruin to the GSD. If you really love the breed then stop breeding, buying or showing those sloped back mutants. They are not sound and usually have horrid temperments as well. Not to mention the severe inbreeding in them causes even more mutations and health problems.
by Hundmutter on 08 January 2013 - 16:01
Lmao. Danica you are parading your 'instant expertise' yet again,
it really isn't as simple as you make the issues sound, sorry.
[I have yet to see a horse with a sloping back, btw.]
Can we straighten out these basic points:
1 No the GSD breed was never intended to look structurally like
ASL-type Show Dogs have become; but:
2 Having said that, a) you need to take a closer look at the dogs
in the flesh, because the slope is greatly exagerated when dogs
are placed in 'stance' for photographs and judges;
b) nor were the original dogs ever intended to stand 4square and
flat backed like coffee tables. You have to read the original Standard
and surrounding notes in Von Stephanitz and others' books, not just
look at old photos.
Even if your version were true, WHY would the production of Kings
and Shilohs have involved crossing in extra large and giant breeds eg
Newfoundlands and Malamutes with over-sized GSDs, just to get a flat
back ? Plenty of others available. It is well known in dog breeding that
first crosses are often bigger/taller than their parents are; so anyone
breeding JUST to 'improve' shape would have taken that into consideration,
don't you think ?
PS you declare the sloped back to be the 'cause' of HD. Please go and read
some medical textbooks, HD has been with the breed since its beginnings.
it really isn't as simple as you make the issues sound, sorry.
[I have yet to see a horse with a sloping back, btw.]
Can we straighten out these basic points:
1 No the GSD breed was never intended to look structurally like
ASL-type Show Dogs have become; but:
2 Having said that, a) you need to take a closer look at the dogs
in the flesh, because the slope is greatly exagerated when dogs
are placed in 'stance' for photographs and judges;
b) nor were the original dogs ever intended to stand 4square and
flat backed like coffee tables. You have to read the original Standard
and surrounding notes in Von Stephanitz and others' books, not just
look at old photos.
Even if your version were true, WHY would the production of Kings
and Shilohs have involved crossing in extra large and giant breeds eg
Newfoundlands and Malamutes with over-sized GSDs, just to get a flat
back ? Plenty of others available. It is well known in dog breeding that
first crosses are often bigger/taller than their parents are; so anyone
breeding JUST to 'improve' shape would have taken that into consideration,
don't you think ?
PS you declare the sloped back to be the 'cause' of HD. Please go and read
some medical textbooks, HD has been with the breed since its beginnings.
by Sunsilver on 08 January 2013 - 17:01
That's true, Hundmutter, but it is much more common now than it was. I forget the exact figures, but around the time hip x-rays were started, a VERY high percentage of GSDs were dysplastic. (And of course, the x-rays were being done because they were the only accurate way of diagnosing dysplasia.) I think a large part of the cause was breeding to popular sires that were either dysplastic or carriers of dysplasia.
Yes, I know, even that is an oversimplification. Diet and exercise also play a role.
As for outcrossing to other breeds, I can tell you why it was done with the Shilohs, since I'm familliar with their history. When all the dogs out there that are available to breed to look like this:
yeah, you'd be tempted to outcross too! If you blow up the photo a bit, you will see the dog went 'Excellent-select".
The American shepherds from this era were small and lightly built. I've heard of one breeder who got out of the breed after her future champion broke its leg running down a hill.
Both Tina's father and grandmother had bred GSDs in Europe. Tina quit school, and began working for a show kennel when she was just 16 years old. She then went on to purchase her own kennel. During the '80s, she saw everything her favourite breed had become and hated it. She wanted big, strong dogs with good bone, good hips, and solid temperaments. She wasn't seeing that in the American show lines.
She tried to bring in German lines, and paid $5,000 for a promising, well-bred young male. He turned out to have just about the worst hips the vet had ever seen.
She also wanted to preserve the distinctive look of her dogs. That wasn't going to happen unless she removed them from the AKC gene pool.
Finally, she decided to take the leap, and outcrossed to a dog that was part giant malemute and part American GSD (Secret Samson Woo).
Yes, I know, even that is an oversimplification. Diet and exercise also play a role.
As for outcrossing to other breeds, I can tell you why it was done with the Shilohs, since I'm familliar with their history. When all the dogs out there that are available to breed to look like this:
yeah, you'd be tempted to outcross too! If you blow up the photo a bit, you will see the dog went 'Excellent-select".
The American shepherds from this era were small and lightly built. I've heard of one breeder who got out of the breed after her future champion broke its leg running down a hill.
Both Tina's father and grandmother had bred GSDs in Europe. Tina quit school, and began working for a show kennel when she was just 16 years old. She then went on to purchase her own kennel. During the '80s, she saw everything her favourite breed had become and hated it. She wanted big, strong dogs with good bone, good hips, and solid temperaments. She wasn't seeing that in the American show lines.
She tried to bring in German lines, and paid $5,000 for a promising, well-bred young male. He turned out to have just about the worst hips the vet had ever seen.
She also wanted to preserve the distinctive look of her dogs. That wasn't going to happen unless she removed them from the AKC gene pool.
Finally, she decided to take the leap, and outcrossed to a dog that was part giant malemute and part American GSD (Secret Samson Woo).
by Rico on 08 January 2013 - 17:01
Hello Sunsilver,
Aslan is a upperlarge GSD and for us he is a real KING! A
As well as his father, mother, brother and sisters he has the best hips and elbows.
HD A normal, ED A normal.
He is social, very healthy and gives very beautifull strong-boned puppies.
puppie 6 weeks old
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