can this dog even walk properly?????? - Page 2

Wow! SitasMom, if you're going to stud your dog out, you'd certainly BETTER have good stacked photos, and I'd want to see one of the dog in motion, as well!

They can't be very serious business people if they don't care enough to do that!

I got an e-mail from Star's breeder last year, asking for good photos of her, as someone was interested in stud service to her sire, and wanted to know what he'd produced so far... but heck, WE all know this stuff. It's just the idjiits that don't!

Which second photo are you referring to, BTW? If it's the German showline bitch, I think I have another photo of her somewhere.

I agree. I was just wondering what one of the dogs like pictured above looks like when standing normally.

German roach back is what I was asking about.

my Aussie likes to have someone press under her belly and she arches her back up and looks quite roached then.

My dogs are not being bred.

SitasMom, well I don't have another photo of that dog (wrong dog...I was thinking of another). But here is a dog with a similar shape to its back, and the handler is trying to make the curve less exaggerated by stretching the dog out and making her crouch a bit. (It isn't working!)




Hmm....I can't upload the photo. I'm getting an 'error on the page' message. Sorry about that...

darn, I was looking forward to learning about stacking to try to hid flaws.

i'd love to find a source that shows

dog standing normally and stacked with positives and nedatives pointed out.......it would be so educational for all of us.

People may be breeding these dogs, but people are also breeding puggles and maltipoos and shepadoodles.  What I mean is that there are a lot of idiots out there, but that doesn't mean that therefore all pug, beagle, maltese and shepherd breeders are breeding for these disasters.   The 3 dogs pictured here - the overshot black one and the curved-spine one and the Romanian one in the ad - someone bred them, but they are not being put up by judges anywhere that I can see.  If anyone can show where these dogs won a prize or points to a title, please post it.  I'd bet that judges, SV and AKC both, would be appalled at these dogs.

It doesn't matter that winners can be found behind these dogs - not every offspring is quality and deserves to be bred.  Looks to me like the culls weren't.

Vikram, the first dog you posted is very typical Am. S/L and would not be considered anything out of the ordinary in a GSDCA specialty ring.

Look at her pedigree, she is from top winning Am. S/L dogs.

Rik

Here is another gem:

www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/pedigree/566562.html

Looks almost sickle hocked to me.

the last akc dog show that I went to, a dog with bad ears won. one ear was normal, the other was rigid, but rotated about 45 from vertical..........and it won...........

some of the dogs that did well looked like the first photo, and some were more  'german like". maybe akc is now a tad bit more open minded. I didn't see so much of the anteater nose at the show.

i've heard roumor that the akc is trying to slowly get away from the bannana backed anteater......we'll see as the years go on.

"the last akc dog show that I went to, a dog with bad ears won. one ear was normal, the other was rigid, but rotated about 45 from vertical..........and it won..........."

But how was it's body?

Well, if it had one bad ear and the competition looked like any of the other dogs pictured in this thread, it should've won!  (LOL)