critiques please on this male - Page 1

Are you thinking of using this male for breeding?  Or for show in the American ring?  The reason I ask, is he has some good qualities, but some not so good IMHO.  I guess it depends what you are looking for. :)

That male may "bank" the north american/canadian "ring". Muscular and look powerful, good in looks but with a slightly smaller head. But i have my reservation about him winning in a german ring. This dog can win in north america/canada but'll not see the germanshow ring. Why? This comes to the question: which is the real GSD? German showline or workline, east german workline or czech or the north american GSD? "Beauty's in the eyes of the beholder"

Very eye catching;  so photochopped I can't tell what is him and what is not.  His pasterns are weak (one of my pet peeves) otherwise unless you can see a video of him moving to see that all is going in the right direction and critique his gate;  I really cannot tell anything else;  may I ask how old this male is?  As his head does seem small for his body or maybe he is overweight??  Nan

Is definitely wooing the crowd and the judge in this picture.  Very expressive and showy.   I like that.  Nan

The most obvious faults I see in that photo are his pasterns look to be long and rather weak. I cannot see his feet, so it's a bit difficult to judge this accurately.

His head could be more masculine, but many American showline dogs have heads like that, so I doubt this would be a problem if you showed him in AKC conformation.

His hock is not straight, but slightly curved. I believe this is called a sickle hock.

His back is completely flat, with no hint of a roach. Again, many American dogs look like this, but he wiould likely be penalized in the German show ring, where the curved back is preferred, as they believe it to be stronger. (Note: there is not an iota of scientific evidence to prove this.)

It looks like his right hock is resting flat on the ground. This type of loose ligamentation is very common in the AKC conformation dogs, but not so common in the German show ring. Whether he is penalized for this would depend on how his hocks look when he's moving. If they wobble all over the place, he will not place well in the show ring, especially in SV style shows.

Despite these flaws, I think he's a very handsome boy!  I really like his shoulder, and he has a very well muscled thigh. What's his pedigree?

Hmmm. I know nothing about what they look for in the American ring, but I saw his head and thought it was the camera angle making it look somewhat small; look at the way he is angled, just slightly. I take thousands and thousands of photos and have taken some of my own dogs (who do not have small heads by any stretch,lol) and they have appeared "body heavy" like this, so I chalked it up to angle. 

thanks all for the critique he is a BIS CH and he is american lines he is 3 years old and no he is not over weight and i added a photo of the dog moving so you all can critique his movement !!!!

As said before the picture was ptotoshopped, Beautiful type, medium sized strong built male, perfect proportion of height to length, a small head on a thick and strong short neck, high withers, strong straightl back, short croup, slightly high tailset, beautiful hind angulation, strong hocks, tuck could be better, weak pasterns (that is what the picture suggests, but as the fore legs are not straight under his withers and placed backward, this impression of weak pasterns could be wrong, especially his overall ligaments look super in gaiting), deep chest, good fore chest development, slightly short and slightly steep front upper arm, good lay of shoulder blade, I say he's very good for bettering the substance, proportions and ligaments, shouldn't be bred to bitches of small heads and or weak pasterns (if they're really overangled).

Ibrahim

Thanks so much Ibrahim  i must post my other male for you to critique i really like this i know my dogs faults but its nice to get others opinions as it keeps a breeder from going kennel blind !!!!