Video of GSD Trotting - Page 1

I can't believe I don't have a link to this. Maybe I accidentally deleted it!

There is a YouTube clip of a well-known GSD trotting, both in slow motion and at normal speed, that has been posted several times on this site. I'll be damned if I can remember the dog's name. I thought it was Timo, but searches I've done on his name have drawn a blank.

This video has become the unofficial standard of excellence for showing a German Shepherd at the trot.

If you know the one I mean, can you please post the link?

Thank you!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFpKL0qRQ0

Is this one it?

Yes, that's the one! Thank you!

The dog is Dingo von Haus Gerro.

Thats real interesting.

I'll save it.

Yup[, that one's certainly a keeper! Worth watching again and again. 

Here's another one. What are your thoughts on this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQNAuTfAwEE&feature=player_embedded

Absolutely stunning. I always liked that clip.

Brings to mind a question I've had for awhile about gaiting though. If you watch, his right hind tracks inside the forefoot while the left hind tracks outside the forefoot. My old eyes can't tell from the video but is this just because he's turning slightly? I see a lot of dogs tracking that way, like they're not quite moving straight but crabbing a little bit. I'm a grumpy old horse person too so I tend to notice things like that.

This is taken from a movie made years ago about the anatomy and movement of the GSD and I believe the male trotting is Dingo vom haus Gero.I do not know if the full version is available on DVD but it would be intersting to find out.

Mobjack, after miles walking with various hounds this is something I've also noticed - the line of the spine is ever so slightly out from the line of direction when trotting in a straight line. I did a little investigating at the time &  I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that this is to be expected and perfectly within the standard . Also the legs may swap i.e. left hind inside when changes of direction are called for. I'll try to dig it out sometime...

If you think about it given the anatomy of the GSD (& pretty much all dogs & quadrupeds) there is no way this wouldn't occur unless the hips are much wider/thinner than the shoulders or they had extremely flexible kness and/or elbows and in both cases you'd have a pretty strange looking beast!

AandA

Mobjack, here's what the Canadian Kennel Club breed standard has to say on that:

The overreach of the hindquarter usually necessitates one hind foot passing outside and the other hind foot passing inside the track of the forefeet and such action is not faulty unless the locomotion is crabwise with the dog's body sideways out of the normal straight line. In order to achieve ideal movement of this kind, there must be full muscular co-ordination throughout the structure with the action of muscles and ligaments positive, regular and accurate.