Lord v. Gleisdreieck - Page 1

While researching Trommel kennels, I stumbled across an old video of Lord in training. 

Lord was born in 1983. The video is datestamped October 1995. That means Lord was 12 years old when the video was filmed!  What an INCREDIBLE dog!

It's fairly rare to find videos this old on YouTube, and thought some of you might like to see it! He was an important sire in the old DDR lines. He also carried the recessive gene for the reverse face mask. Just about every time you see a current working line dog with the reverse mask, Lord will be somewhere in the pedigree!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI-jqq_Fea0 

Nice reverse mask in your avatar Sunsilver. Care to give details.

Love it!  Thanks for sharing.

Koach, no, that's not a reverse mask. [edit] Holy crap! YOU'RE RIGHT!   I had that dog for 14 years, and never realized it!  Well, at that point in my life I wouldn't have know a reverse mask if it had bitten me on the butt!

She was a stray my room mate picked up after someone dumped her in the streets of Scarborough. She lived to be 14 1/2. (Maybe she DID have Lord in her pedigree!) Although her conformation wasn't great, she had true GSD temperament, and was the only dog I've had so far that actually attacked someone who came on the property (a guy delivering flyers early one morning.) He was okay, as he was wearing a leather jacket, but I think he might have had to change his pants...  Unfortunately, she wasn't safe with kids, and sometimes took a dislike to adults, especially if they got right in her face on too short an aquaintance. She was also fiercely protective of our cars when she was inside them.

The best known examples of the reverse mask is the Littlest Hobo dogs, owned by Chuck Eisenman. He kept their pedigrees a well-guarded secret, as he didn't want anyone to exploit the dogs. And the picture editor will NOT let me upload photos of them! 

This video's been out a few years, but I had no idea he was 14 at the time.

Daryl, he wasn't, from the description of the vid: "This footage was filmed off a TV Screen hence the 1995 date"
 They don't actually say how old he was in the vid, but I doubt he was 12.

Ang

There is no way in hell that dog is 12yrs old in the video.... do me a favour, great dog; yes. But the dates are out either with his birth or the date of the video.

Mark

sunsilver , I bred several reversed masks, but I doubd lord is behind them , I will check it anyway, thanks for posting it
one of mine reversed masks at young age

The reverse mask comes from a dog much farther back: Ex vom Riedstern  and probably even further back than Ex himself