Look of Eagles - Fire in the eyes - it's unmistakable when you see it - Page 3

The pics were Ava and her sister Rory( K9 Rory now) at 4 months old. This is Ava at 2.5 yrs... still has that intense look about her.

Melissa

Best defined as being able to see the size of an animals heart in its eyes

Thank you, Preston, Ibrahim and Sunsilver! LOL... my pants are still holding up, but a few ripped jackets and t-shirts, as well as some nice bruises on my arms.... And yeah, the house is still standing! He excells in bite work, but obedience wise he is rather a bit resistant because of his dominant demeanor.

All have posted some really nice pictures! Love Theo standing on that rock, and Ambii, yours has a very nice expression of dont mess with me! Yes Preston, there is hope!

MIrasmom, what sort of a harness is that on your dog? It reminds me a lot of the one Prager's Timber was wearing in the old photo I found of him.

Wow AmbiiGSD and Lief, those are just beautiful dogs!

Astro vom Kalibeck....  jackie harris

Great looking dogs everybody!

So intense.

Michele

Shadow waiting his turn on the field with Ivan-1999
 

All these GSDs have this ideal look.  The photos from Ambi, Melba, Lief and Kalibeck are impressive.  I love the photo of Kalibeck's open liftgate with her two GSDs ready to go.  This kind of temperament is what the breed desperately needs.        I always wondered why so many GSD breeders and show folks don't seem to know about this or if they did didn't seem to care.

This is my Xena...she sure has an intense look to her..(at least she does in my opinion)

The female in my sig photo had weak pasterns, hare feet, poor bone, not enough muzzle stop, and the muzzle was too long and her ears too big. Her rear end was as high as her withers. She was a rescue of dubious ancestry, but let a stranger wander onto the property uninvited, and she would attack without hesitation. She had a high energy level and could run like a greyhound. I wish I'd known about schutzhund in those days...well, I DID know about it, I just didn't think we'd be able to do it, as I thought she had to have papers for it.

One night, a large dog came running out of someone's garage to attack my husband while he was riding his bike. Tasha and I were already down at the end of the street when he called her name. She broke from heel, and came racing back down the street. With teeth bared, and hackles up, she backed the much bigger dog off the road and into the garage.

Roger spoiled her rotten for the next week or so...

Of all the GSDs I've owned, her temperment was closest to the ideal, but fire in the eyes? I'm not sure I see it. 

Here she is at the age of 12, on a hot summer's day in Algonquin Park.  We were a little more than halfway through a very rugged hike. Roger had just said the word "squirrel" to get her attention for the photo. We've both gone grey since the picture in my sig, which was taken when Tasha was a year and a half old.