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by hexe on 18 June 2011 - 01:06
When you use the link the OP provided, it only brings up a three-generation pedigree; to see the other titled dogs the OP refers to, you need to view the 5 or 6 generation pedigrees.
Looking at the 6 gen pedigree, it tells us that there is a little bit of everything behind the dog owned by the OP; there's Czech dogs back there, West German working lines, some USA showlines, some DDR dogs, some West German show lines, and some herding line dogs. In the dam's third maternal generation, where we see a Bastin Kolketal son bred to his own daughter.
So, "Good bloodline or no?" is a somewhat loaded question; there's certainly some strong lines in the back of this pedigree, but that's the problem: there's no particular *single* bloodline, or type. There's European show lines & working lines, USA show lines...it's kinda all over the place.
On the negative side, it's impossible to even hazard a guess as to what this dog's strengths and weaknesses are likely to be, because there's nothing to go on as far as third-party evaluations of working ability and conformance to the breed standard are concerned--the most recent titles of any type are found three generations back from the OP's dog.
On the plus side, there's virtually no line-breeding (save for the dog Sr Zeus Micheloby, who's 1-2 on Kaiser von Rossland Pattison), so not much risk of doubling up on recessive traits: you can't ask for a more 'open' pedigree than this, that's for sure. The other 'plus' is that the dog can't read the pedigree, so she has no idea that she's 'neither fish nor fowl'--her only limitations are those that would be associated with her physical and mental soundness, and her handler's ability to teach her.
To sum it up, if you love your dog and she's everything you could have hoped for as your companion and partner, and you weren't purchasing her as a foundation breeding female, then it doesn't matter 'good bloodline or no?' If what you're really asking is "Would you consider this bitch to be a good potential brood bitch?", then my opinion is "No." That said, there's tons of females I have the same point of view regarding (many of them titled and breed surveyed), yet they're being bred time and again anyway, because their owners choose to do so and I have no power to prevent it.
Looking at the 6 gen pedigree, it tells us that there is a little bit of everything behind the dog owned by the OP; there's Czech dogs back there, West German working lines, some USA showlines, some DDR dogs, some West German show lines, and some herding line dogs. In the dam's third maternal generation, where we see a Bastin Kolketal son bred to his own daughter.
So, "Good bloodline or no?" is a somewhat loaded question; there's certainly some strong lines in the back of this pedigree, but that's the problem: there's no particular *single* bloodline, or type. There's European show lines & working lines, USA show lines...it's kinda all over the place.
On the negative side, it's impossible to even hazard a guess as to what this dog's strengths and weaknesses are likely to be, because there's nothing to go on as far as third-party evaluations of working ability and conformance to the breed standard are concerned--the most recent titles of any type are found three generations back from the OP's dog.
On the plus side, there's virtually no line-breeding (save for the dog Sr Zeus Micheloby, who's 1-2 on Kaiser von Rossland Pattison), so not much risk of doubling up on recessive traits: you can't ask for a more 'open' pedigree than this, that's for sure. The other 'plus' is that the dog can't read the pedigree, so she has no idea that she's 'neither fish nor fowl'--her only limitations are those that would be associated with her physical and mental soundness, and her handler's ability to teach her.
To sum it up, if you love your dog and she's everything you could have hoped for as your companion and partner, and you weren't purchasing her as a foundation breeding female, then it doesn't matter 'good bloodline or no?' If what you're really asking is "Would you consider this bitch to be a good potential brood bitch?", then my opinion is "No." That said, there's tons of females I have the same point of view regarding (many of them titled and breed surveyed), yet they're being bred time and again anyway, because their owners choose to do so and I have no power to prevent it.
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