Critique my dog - Page 2

He is quite darling, beautiful expression, lovely headpiece.

Nice yougster, I wouldn't worry to much about his hieght, he has loads of Knuckle and is well down on pastern so if managed his hieght will come.
I would give light exersise on concrete or tarmac. This will help his pasterns and feet. Below is our youngster taken at 20 weeks. We had to keep him on firm ground and manage his exersise but he has come to size and is extremely sound front and back. At this young age it is all about management.

Seems to have long hair..

Angle of the picture is important, but your pup looks like a nice dog.  Pretty big feet.  May be at the top end of the size standard.   He looks a bit like mine did at 6 months:


Enjoy your dog.

Hi all again,

Thank you again for your comments and critique.

I will try to answer few questions in order to stay on the topic:)

1. Truckingdog - At this point I am not worried whatsoever about his pasterns as I think that for his age he is OK with his front and back.
2. Swingfield - heheheh I like you sense of humor :)
3. Ibrahim & Euroshepherd - thanks for your input and comments - I will try to post his pictures compared to average size person 2 weeks from now. I am 6.2 ft so not sure if that is average or not :)
4. E C Street - I think that he is coated so I don't think that the hair around jowls and ears could disappear after his first real shedding.
5. Charlie - Could you please further explain your comment "May be at the top end of the size standard" as everyone else is saying (because of the picture angle) that he appears to be on the smaller size :) I would be happy if he ends up somewhere between 63-65cm

I don't have problem sharing his pedigree so here it is:

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/german_shepherd_dog/para.utkoma?fadir=570090&modir=745122

Nice looking puppy.  Really. :)

Sometimes I read things here that make me shake my head....

"I would give light exersise on concrete or tarmac. This will help his pasterns and feet."
Really?  REALLY?????
And while you are at it you could be impacting the growth plates and rest of the dog's structure. 

OP, Your puppy is pretty and looks good structurally.  Let him be a PUPPY and play on the grass and play with him and enjoy him!  Limit how much he goes up and down stairs and limit work on hard surfaces but don't put him in a bubble! 

If you know what he weighed at 16 weeks, double that and add 5 to 8 lbs. That will come close to his adult weight.

I'd never walk a puppy on a hard surface if the goal were to strengthen pasterns. Instead I'd walk it on soft ground, sand, or gravel. I don't think I'd worry about this puppy's pasterns.

I think he's a lovely puppy. He may be a plush.

Charlie319,

That puppy face expression is stunning, some puppies you can see intelligence in their eyes, That's one of them.

  Nice looking boy you have here.

  Nice structure and he probably will be right at the 63 cm line.

  I looked in his pedigree as I said immediately....Uran v Wildsteigerland  is in this pedigree and he is on both sides....

  nice line up of showlines in the boy.

 YR

  I would show him

forgot to mention....work on his " lazy sit"

 In first pic, you see how he tucks under the leg and is leaning on his hip to the right from front view..??

  always ask him to re sit...when he does that...clap hands and make him come to you with command to sitz.  if he keeps doing the side sit..(.lazy) or work from the heel posiition(fuss)

Just step forward one time resit him and if need be pull up on the leash and say sitz pretty...use those two words each time and then praise him immediately for sitting correctly.

it is a habit they can get into and not good...doesn't mean his hips are BAD, either..NO way
  Cola, my ofa excellent hipped female,  sat that way until she was 1yrs old, us not knowing about how to correct and everyone at Spring Valley schutz club said   HER HIPS ARE BAD!!!

THE day her papers came back we couldn't wait to go to practice that night..!!!
YR

omg, he's a Ballack son...just a couple weeks ago I was wishing to myself that I had the money to buy Ballack!  
Ballack has wonderful work ethics, great bitework, Universal Sieger type dog.  
When I made my previous post, above, I thought to myself that I sure wouldn't mind having your male pup, now I really wish I do, LOL!