Interview with Reinhardt Meyer-2008 - Page 1

Interview with REINHARDT MEYER
S.V. DER VEREINSZUCHTWART/NATIONAL BREED WARDEN
by David Haydon
“A REGENERATION OF THE GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG BREED“

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Good read, thanks for the link.

Rik

so does this mean that there is going to be another thread soon about the golden middle??

extract from:
Interview – Reinhardt Meyer 2008
The Role of the TSB

The GSD is bred as a working dog, never merely as a show dog. One may formulate this by saying: it is a working dog, which can also be shown.

As in the past, the GSD still enjoys wide popularity as the best and most versatile working dog in the world. His character and qualities of temperament have made him what he still is today: a working dog, which, in comparison with many other breeds, is universally useful.

The assessment of the T.S.B. features is the central element in assessing some significant areas of mental strength. Consequently, it is a basic component in the breeding of a working dog and fundamental in the selection of a working dog.

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Extract from “Interview – Reinhardt Meyer 2008”
Two populations

I represent the opinion that we do not have two populations in our breed. One might perhaps formulate it thus: we have two differing lines of breeding interest.
The term ‘population’ is a technical term in breeding for a type or breed, that is bred according to agreed, specified principles.
If there were two populations in the GSD, then we would also perhaps need two standards, but we do not have that. The GSD as a working dog is bred to only one standard. This standard has been practically unaltered since 1899. Certainly in a club as big as the S.V. there are members with different interests in their involvement with the GSD – that is clearly the case.
On the one hand, we have members who incline more to the world of breed-showing and on the other side there are members who feel more at home in the working sport. But they all breed on the basis of one breed standard, with differing breeding emphases, i.e. priorities.
I believe that the size of our society makes it absolutely possible to justify these varying breeding emphases. But all breeders must clearly operate within the regulation and rules of the prescribed breeding parameters.
In that way the versatility and usefulness of a working breed is guaranteed to a great extent.
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Extract from “Interview – Reinhardt Meyer 2008”
Importance of the Survey
A properly worked-out temperament test of the necessary thoroughness does not occur. Consequently, it is not possible on the day of the survey to select the essential degree of excellence. These minimal statements, therefore, do not offer the engaged breeder a satisfactory level of information so that he can select the cream from among the breeding animals himself.
At this point, I should report that all the committees are already working with the future in mind to modify and optimize the survey in various areas, especially with regard to the mental qualities of the dogs presented.
The idea of a survey panel comprising 3 surveyors is also being considered. In this way the validity of the survey reports would be freed from an aspect of subjectivity and be based on a broader consensus.
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Extract from “Interview – Reinhardt Meyer 2008”
Oversize in dogs and bitches
A problem which has pre-occupied the SV for years if not for decades. Incidentally, this is also a problem apparent in other breeds, where there is certainly often more latitude in the breed-standard.
The size problem has already been tackled in the breed-committee under the leadership of my predecessor. However, I have demanded the strict implementation by all breed-judge colleagues of the directive from our breed-committee: namely, to unequivocally demote those dogs which very obviously exceed the tolerated parameters, and thus to send a signal to breeders and exhibitors.
The SV has always followed the way of proceeding in small steps and this been justified, leading to success in the medium term.
I will adopt this method with the size-issue. It is important that, with this matter, decisive selection occurs at our chief breed show, i.e. the Bundessieger Zuchtschau. Here we have the greatest possibility of demonstrating responsibility towards the breed and of taking care that the future representatives of breed, i.e. the representatives that are used extensively, must be right to a considerable degree in the criteria demanded – in every important aspect.
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There is considerable interest in the expressed viewpoints of Reinhardt Meyer.
many thousands have visited this webpage over the last few days.
There appears to be considerable support for his statements

so bald wie möglich veröffentlicht
Ein interview mit REINHARDT MEYER und nachträgliche Diskussion - 2008
“EINE REGENERATION DES DEUTCHEN SCHÄFERHUNDES?”
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