Be honest : Is this your dog? - Page 13

Thank you, Candace. You are here way too seldom.

Your answer makes me aware once again WHY I always want to see sire and dam of my prospective puppy in real prior to buying...

Mithuna you are a rude guy when people correct your many misconceptions.

If you don't believe people here but believe everything you are told on alpine , it begs the question of why do you post here?

I had two mambo daughters... One produced 70 pound females and 80 pound males. The sister, bred to the same male, produced 50 to 65 pound females and 65 to 70 pound males.
Bred to a male of complete out cross, that female still produced on the lower end of the standard for size.

As for drive, my progeny out of the second mambo daughter is what I would consider high prey drive. Even offspring from Czech ped male is every bit as high prey/hunt as by a WG/ wusv multiple competitor, the offspring from her all have strong nerve, clear heads and are easy to live with.

Thanks Susie, I usually lurk but just have to comment every now & then.

The Mambo offspring I have seen were that size-females right around 65 & the male 70-75. They were all med-upper med prey drive, high hunt drive, strong nerve, clear headed, & balanced dogs. The one owner I talked to a bit said his female was easy to live with also.

Candace

Mithuna - instead of having posters here argue FOR a GSD that falls within breed standard, why don't you make an argument AGAINST the standard, and one that is fact-based, not based on hyperbole or "internet chatter".

Because it's easier and makes you look smarter when you make other people answer the questions. Its a well known control technique.
As long as you keep the other person explaining, defending and answering your questions you appear to control them.

I appreciate everyone's efforts but I still maintain that I personally prefer a bigger dog and that such a dog can be bigger than the standard allowed for both males and females because it is still POSSIBLE for those dogs to be functional. I gave the example of Drago V Patriot ( listed on working dog eu as weighing 97 lbs). It is obvious to someone with even an inkling of reasoning that these weight limits must be gradational ( convergent ). As you move away from the upper limit functionality is lost but no one on here can produce an absolute figure for that " outside the upper limit range ". If we take this understanding it becomes easy explain dogs with anomalous size data.

The yelling, screaming, and arguing ad hominem is not required.

But semantics are 'required' ?

So what's the purpose of this thred, mithuna. You don't care what anyone says, you have the answers, you prefer oversized gsd...so do most pet owners who want to use their dog to impress. But then when the oversized dog develops HD, they complain about the breeder producing HD in their dogs...well what else is new. Breed for oversized gsd, take what comes with it.

I recall a few months ago a " newbie" was asking for info about where she could find someone to help her replace her GSD , whom she had to re home due to housing issues; the user posted pics of her large dog who was muzzled at the vet, and in one pic he had the muzzle on at home. That user was screamed off pdb ( never seen them again ) by some of the cronies here , especially one who seems to descend from the woodwork with jizz of anger ...like she probably missed taking her vicodin .