Temperament Test Now Mandatory - Page 1

Last summer, I had my female temperament tested, and she did very well. However, I still have not received the certificate, so today I called and spoke with the owner of the kennel that hosted the test here in Ontario.

He told me something that gladdened my heart. The test included all the aspects of the AKC temperament test (gunshots, aloof stranger, friendly stranger, aggressive stranger, etc.) This was followed by testing the dog's confidence in traffic ( jogger passes, then a bicycle with the rider ringing the bell, followed by a car, toooting its horn, ) and in a mob of noisy strangers. They pressed close to the dog and were hooting and hollering as if their favourite team had just scored a goal.

This test is called the TEC (Temperament Evaluation Certificate), and will now be MANDATORY before a Canadian GSD can receive the Excellent Select title!

Way to go, GSDCC!!  

He also said he likes the more moderately structured dogs, and was hoping to see more of them in the show ring. He owns a stud that is a champion, and a mix of German and American lines.

If only my German/American girl had turned out as nice as Fury!  

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/dog.html?id=722150 
http://www.lorettokennels.com/ourmales.html

I have been meaning to comment on this for several days now. I just think it is awesome. Maybe the motivation to do so will carry south to the AKC. I bet we would see a big difference in what was bred and what wasn't..............I'd vote for it. Thanks for sharing that. Nice looking dog by the way..................

I REALLY like Fury's looks, too!

He got his Canadian championship last weekend, and the photo from the show made my eyes pop!   

WooHoo Big Congrats and yes he is a hunk........................Thanks for sharing.............

It's too bad this new format distorts everything...................

Vonissk, is the photo above distorted? It looks fine to me!

vonissk, it doesn't distort "everything", it just does not adjust the proportions of a downloaded picture automatically, so there is a point where your browser will be too small for a certain sized photo, and that is when you get the distortion. This is most noticeable on smart phones, and minimized browsers. And I would venture to guess that is why there was a limit put on the resize box. Oli said he made it bigger by request, so I am just guessing that the previous limit would have prevented distortion on phones, but then it would have affected the photo sizes, to be smaller on full screen computers. So, try this, expand your browser to full size and see if it is proportionally correct. And then one could always make the size box smaller before submitting, but I don't remember what the optimum size was to maintain proper proportions on most phones/computers etc..  400x600  maybe?

And that dog does look "Hunky" to me too! LOL






OK, humor me, I want to see if I am correct, lol .... I just entered the same photo where I changed the Height x Width:  400 x 551.  Sunsilver's download showed... 800 x 581 ....

Does it now look better to you?

*Edited.... I made the same changes using Sunsilvers  *new cropped* picture...



Here it is again, sized h x w,  316 x 400, to see if it looks correct on my iPhone....

Okay, I just redid the photo, as I realized there was a border around it (the two black lines) that was causing it to display as larger than it actually was.

Does it look better now?

Yes. Oli adjusted the size so some of us could post pictures again, but actually that distortion was present before he changed it on my phone, & not at all on my PC. Both pictures above look distorted on my phone, but the first is worst.
as far as the topic at hand, the dog is handsome & the ruling is wonderful. jackie harris

Glad I saw the 1st pic, Sunsilver's edited version, cos he looks great on my
laptop monitor (never a smartphone).   Bee's photo  makes him look longer
and short legged.
He is nicer than I usually expect from Canadian SL.
Not a pedigree I'm at all familiar with, altho' I see Eko-Lans in there.

Congrats on the CH.

BTW before I got into comparing pictures -
I was going to say:  that TEC description sounds uncannily like
some stuff I've got on what is expected in BH  ?