Serious hard GSD - Page 11

Joan what are you doing with "so many" serious dogs?

Mith, define 'so many', please.

I have 'serious' dogs because I prefer them to 'soft' dogs.

To be absolutely honest I am not impressed with most Czech line dogs.

LOL @ baerenfangs, it is all about the individuals you meet

What impresses you, if not Czech 'lines' which are all direct decendants of DDR dogs, some pretty close. For example, Gabi pohranicni straze sire is DDR Bohar schatterhof and gabi's granddam is ddr.
 

my guess is baerenfang is impressed by BSP and WUSV winners

Well there are some of those in the Czech dogs, too, so must be sompthin else. Just a guess.

for one person 5 is enough if you live on open land.
if you life in urban NYC 2 at most.

And that whole Tom/Querry/Orry line is coming down from DDR Ingo Rudigen through Robby ; and Ingo is 3-2 on a well known serious DDR dog Ex.

Mith ~ ' for one person 5 is enough if you live on open land.
if you life in urban NYC 2 at most.'

There are no restrictions in this county, some hunters I know have ten to twenty dogs, more when they have litters they're raising and training.

How many do you think a breeder with an actual breeding program should have? Say they have been breeding dogs for fifteen years and five of their dogs are retired for two or three years and are ten or eleven years old? If that breeders holds back pups from a litter to raise them and see first hand how they turn out, health and temperament...now they might have the dam plus three or four senior pups, plus five seniors, and assuming they've held back females from previous breeding to raise for future breedings, and in case they own their own stud, too....see where I'm going? Dog population is dynamic in a breeding program.

Of course, if a person just imports preg females, sells the litter, breeds the bitch again and depending on how fast they pups sold, they may keep the bitch long enough to sell the second litter, and sell the bitch too, before they are unable to market her as a 'producer'....and then start all over again. No getting involved with taking care of old dogs that way. Me, I prefer to keep my retired dogs.