ummm do u agree with this statement. - Page 1

no this isnt to bash anyone. im wondering if im seeing something wrong. but i do not feel this dog deserves the statement she is getting. she looks like she can barely stand up imo.  no i am not saying all showlines are bad dont think that i have seen some stunning ones.


to me it just seems that this dog is literaly about to fall over in her back end. and she has the banana back roach going on

She has extremely sound structure and lots of bone and is "a" normal with excellent elbows - lots of substance.  is the comments with the dog.

her stak is horroble...... look at her expression.... she is offbalance and staying still to be obedient.

stop bitching about the stupid stacking ...... it shows ignorance on your part.

There is more than one way to show your ignorance...........

The stack does look awful.

I think the bitch in question has no problem. I see good bone size, even of the rear limb, but she seemed awfully starked. Again, the shot's(picture) perspective is unprofessional and i think, it actually places the bitch in bad light.

Ironic though how SL people always say it's the stack and not the dog........sometimes it really is the dog

Maybe it's just a bad stack. but I cannot stand that over angulated look. It's JMO, nothing against the dog. If her comments are true, great for her.

Why is it that with over three hundred breeds of dogs world wide, the gsd is the ONLY breed made to stand in such a bazar manner? Not even the hyena, with it's NATURALLY low rear, stands like that. It's not just the show lines made to stand that way. Many, many of the work line dogs are pictured with the handler actually pushing their hand down on the butt to make the dog look like it's a drag ass. It is UGLY !!!

First of all, as a photographer, this photo is taken  from a bad angle.  When taking a picture of anything.. you are taking a 3-D item and projecting it on a 2-D plane.  In this case the photographer is ahead of the dog and to the side.. and so the rear end looks small (further from the film plane) and the front and head look oversize (closer to the film plane).  The lens also adds distortion.  A 35mm lens on 35mm format will make this look WORSE (for instance). 

The stack IS bad.  The dog is not even in front and the rear is off to one side.  The angle of the camera to dog and the bad stack contribute to net being able to see any definition in the area of the stifle on the left leg.  

From this image, I cannot say the dog is over angulated behind.  From this angle she looks to have an extremely short femur and a long fibula by comparison.  That may be the case.. or not.. a better stack or even the dog set up square (not stacked) would tell you a LOT more.  What is REALLY best is to see dogs in person. 


Nancy  

Actually I think she is quite nice aside from the awkward stack,,

GSDguy08 said, "Ironic though how SL people always say it's the stack and not the dog........sometimes it really is the dog "..

Really??..I am growing weary of these kind of comments,I have seen the opposite actually,,The "SL people" from the database are IMO fair in their critiques where angulation is concerned...

Ruger1 I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.