The Art Of Stacking A Dog--How To!!! - Page 2

If you need to, stand behind your dog while stacking him/her for the picture, and then get someone to Photoshop you out of the scene. It's done commonly enough. Oh, and while you're in Photoshop, don't forget to adjust the color until your dog is orange as a carrot. LOL. Sorry, I'm being a smart a$$, but I swear some people posting pics on this site just don't know when to stop adjusting the color balance. Hee hee.

A correctly built GSD will stack itself. The only ones that need stacking and complex handler fiddling to set them up into a so called "show stance" are GSDs that have incorrect proportions (usually too long in back or loin, or have a pushed-forward front assembly which is improperly laid on with litle posternum, and a long lower thigh). If your GSD doesn't quickly walk into a proper "show stance" by himself with no fiddling, then you do not have a dog with good enough confirmation to be a top winner (unpleasant as this may be that's a fact). Professional American handlers of AKC GSDs typically overstretch GSDs to make the topline look "better" to the judges and say it is necessary to "win", but these show poses display the front legs sloping forward from the hock to the shoulder (should be straight vertical), and this makes the upper front leg and the lower front leg look like one straight bone (very ugly in appearance). A properly constructed GSD usually stands in a proper show stance when on lead or at rest standing. A tough standard to meet but this is one very important part of what defines a top winning GSD in the show ring. When you see any handler in an SV confirmation type show or an AKC confirmation show or a GSD confirmation show of any other country repositioning the legs of his GSD and messing with the dog, the GSD is faulty in structure, be sure of this.