Best venue for evaluating and selecting breeding stock - Page 1

In your opinion:

As stand alone venues which do you believe is most likely to select (as the highest achievers) those dogs that are the best specimens of the breed and hence; the best suited for reproduction and continuing to live on in future generations?

Obviously, all sports and activities with dogs have their relative merits and focus on different qualities/training/abilities.
But the question is which do you think is the best, in and of itself, in determining the best dogs of a particular breed?

I suppose there will be many votes for SchH or for PSA or for KNPV  or for the various Ring sports.
There might even be some votes for the show ring.

As an aside, I would ask, if you'd vote for one of the venues that test multiple breeds- are you saying the distinctions between those breeds isn't of primary importance? (Example: Do you feel that what makes a great GSD is the same that makes a great Dutchie or Mal?)

I know the temptation would be to say "a bit of this and a lot of that" - but what I'm trying to get at is this:

Which venue is the best - as it stands - at selecting the best breeding stock?

Finally, do you feel that it is the state of many simultaneously existing venues that is the key to the greatness of the GSD?
Perhaps you feel that the various competitions encourage separate strains of dogs, hence; guaranteeing other sub-pools of genes that can be used for periodic outcrosses (in other words the concept of the GSD as a GROUP of related "sub-breeds" rather than one breed).

To state the obvious: it would be nice if no one made an ad hominem argument.

All of the types of training and trialing which you've mentioned are nothing but mere tools for use by someone that has the experience to evaluate what they've seen...In other words...you can use all of the above as a way to tell what could be ways of telling which dogs possess traits that would be worthy to pass on to future dogs...
Then the problem is...just because a dog has very breed worthy attributes...doesn't mean for a minute that they will pass them on...Just because a dog is a great working specimen doesn't mean that he is worthy of breeding...Only time can tell that...

~Bob~

There are always two considerations: genotype and phenotype.

What the individual dog looks or behave or can do and what (what percentage of) its ancestors looks, behave, or can do.

For my money, the best venues for evaluating dogs are the parking lots at the WUSV, BSP, BSZS and FCI Championships.
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Oh, did you mean something else?
Sorry. Couldn't resist.
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