When was she born? - Page 2

   DO not blame me...lol

   I am the only Yellow here!!

   I am not old enough to know those pictures....OLD ENOUGH IN THE BREED>>>>lol
   that is.....

  

   Yellowrose

   The first picture is a very good illustration of what should be..

  and ALF also

  YR

Sunsilver, thanks for the article on the '55 Seigerschau.  That one picture of Alf, Hardt, and Ceasar together  in one picture is great.  ecs

Yeah, Sunsilver, thanks for that link (and to Ferrum for putting the report on for posterity, in the first place.)
Very interesting to compare a view of a Siegerschau of that time (I was one year old, then !) with reports read
over the years since I got involved with the Show side / '80s .

If I couldn't cheat at this game,

then I was going to guess the first dog as being born about "2009"
and being of east/west working lines.

She is beautiful, I want all my dogs to have her look, not too exaggerated.

Below is a pup I bred born April 16th 2012, I think she has just the right structure with
no extremes to the head or hind end, her name is Suzie Q!
Bloodlines are some DDR, but also linebred on my 11 1/2 year old Mira, that is 1/2 American
certified search & rescue lines, 1/4 DDR, 1/4 working West, sounds confusing but dogs I have known and met in person as far back as 1982.
 She is a confident firecracker!
Hope her body stays in proportion when she's all done growing!

Notice that the first dog "Betty" has a longer body than some dogs seen today,
I like that look, after all the GSD should be longer than tall...

First of all - sorry, Yellowrose and Sunsilver! I apologize! Was reading a lot of articles last night and screwed up the names...

Interesting pup, mirasmom, would be nice to see updates in maybe 10 months!






I loaded up these pictures, because people always say the German Shepherd changed that much during the last decades, and not to the better side...
Please compare the pictures, on the left side the "old" pictures, on the right 2 of my favorites, still alive and high V-rated on the Siegerschau.
It´s a pity the angles of the pictures are not the same, otherwise they would look even more similar.





I know there are extremes like everywhere, but in my personal opinion the "normal" high rated German Shepherd didn´t change THAT MUCH.

I agree susie, Nice the way you ilustrated it

I'm seeing compact shorter bodies/backs in the dogs on the right compared to their
predecessors.

What about these two?
That´s the dog out of your avatar, definition wasn´t good enough, sorry about that...