Why would anyone do this? - Page 2

Simple photo editing software 

Oh. Thanks for the clarification Jenni.

WOW:  nice artsy, fartsy crop job...

if you look closly at the ear tips you will see the shorter coarser small hairs and coloration difference of it being pit ears
 

What, Newbie, you think they took the GSD ears away altogether
and substituted cropped Pit ears ?  Wow, I thought they'd just done
a nice what-Nans-said, 'artsy fartsy' job on the photo !  Now I'm even
more impressed with the edit suite !


Bebo: Thanks for confirming;  I don't do much youtubeing etc so had
never seen it before.

BTW - if Sunsilver tunes into this thred:  Y'know I'd been trying unsuccessfully
to show you pix of Saxon, the Shiloh in the UK I talked about ?  Well apart from
the lack of ears, and no view of his odd pelvic structure, this one was a
dead ringer for him : face, coat length, colour.

Shilohs ARE supposed to have smaller ears than the GSD, but not THAT small! 
The breed standard calls for small, triangular ears. Due to the large amount of American show line GSD blood in the breed as opposed to the small amount of giant malemute (from just ONE dog) the ears are still a work in progress.

But, yep, that dog definitely COULD pass for a Shiloh!

True confession time: I no longer have my Shiloh. She was so timid I rehomed her to a pet home.

I no longer support the breed. Watering down temperaments to make the dog easier for the average joe to handle is one thing. Watering then down so much that you get congenital spooks, then blame the owner of the dog for the femperament is quite another!   

Sunsilver: Wow, I didn't realize that their temperaments were that bad.

Like any breed, there are dogs with good temperaments and dogs with bad. However, a visit to the Shiloh training forum will quickly make you realize dogs with shy temperaments are a REAL problem!  There are even dogs that refuse to leave their own property to go for a walk, or are afraid to go outside, and bolt for the door at the slightest strange noise. Sometimes the problems disappear with age, and good training. I've had German Shepherds since the early '80s, and I have NEVER had a dog that was so frustrating to train! New all-positive training methods actually may make the problem worse in some cases, because they cater to the dog's fears rather than challenging the dog, and increasing its confidence.

 

A friend of mine got all sorts of grief over this picture asking why he cropped her ears when they aren't...she just has them pinned to her head.