Breeding to Scores!! - Page 3

Schutzhund has become a sport instead of a breed worthyness. Hope they don't water it down more by taking away the courage test. Bad enough they took away the attack out of the blind from the SchH1.

    Mark
www.ultimatekanine.com

Schutzhund is used both as a breed test and a sport so its really 2 different applications. Scores are related to the sport aspect. The sport is more of a contest between trainers, and less between dogs. So anyone breeding to the scores is confusing the 2 different applications. No different than confusing a hammer for a screwdriver. Probably better to use the scores if one were breeding the trainers and one wanted a child that would grow up to be a good dog trainer.

I put out 3-4 scorebooks of dogs i like and i let the bitch pick:) Sometimes its good sometimes its not. Normally they like black dogs, cause once you go black..... LOL
On the serious side... I'm probably one of the only people who would ship a bitch to breed to a sch1 dog, so that pretty much sums up my thinking of breeding to scores.
However I do have to argue one point for the high competition dog. It takes a decent amount of nerve, stamina and resilience for a dog to continue to be trained at a level for high sport. Not only qualifying, but to stay in peak condition and to travel to the event and then place high year after year in new countries, new climates, perhaps change of diets.
So the scorebook may be useless but the value in competition is still there... you still have to know what your looking at.
Nothings changed... nor will it ever.

Dan Juros

DDRShep makes a fine and funny point about scores reflecting trainers.  But surely we'd have a pass-fail system if we really didn't think they mattered for the breed?  I only know OB well, but the difference between a dog who earns titles with competitive versus low scores is night and day.  You would not ignore scores in breeding unless you were asking for trouble.

And Gustav - yes, thanks for the reminder.