United Schutzhund Clubs of America-Recent Issue - Page 1

The November/December issue of the U.S.c.A. magazine has the second part of the "Illustrated Standard of the German Shepherd Dog" for your perusal. The article was written by Ms. Linda Shaw MBA, and demonstrates the effects of correct and incorrect angulation, and offers several graphic examples of its effect on movement. A couple of months ago, the first part of this article appeared. This second part is a critique of the physical structure of the Ambred show-line dogs and is presented factually, fairly, and in a way that is easy to understand. I posted the information about the first part a couple of months ago, and sent U.S.c.A. an e-mail, requesting them to place information of this type on their website. Of course I received no reply, and no action was taken. There is also a good article about dominance written by S.V. judge Hr. Werner Rapien. The modern dog is compared to his very distant ancestor, the wolf in an explanation of the types of dominance and how the dog learns to find his place among his own type and his human family. These inclusion of the articles shows an improvement in the type of information published by U.S.c.A. and I hope that it continues. I know that we discuss both of these topics frequently on this messageboard, and for those of us who are not members of the U.S.c.A. should investigate and see whether they can buy the back issues of the magazine. Bob-O

Perhaps someone may be able to scan the articles in and post them?

Flygirl, that magazine is protected by copyright, and permission would have to be secured through U.S.c.A. Bob-O

he he that artice about dominance is a joke,do not agree with that article

Bsp- what dont u agree with, and why is the study about the dominance of a GsD being traced to an ancestor which is very much were out dogs get their traits that we struggle with in the high prey and high food drive dogs. These traits that start at a puppy stage are important to know where they come from because if u dont address them correctly at a puppy age between 4 months old and for some traits earlier in the birthing box you will spend a lot of wasted time trying to correct bad behavior when it could be dealt with by your knowledge of these traits of dominance and pack alfa and order of the family. How your dog responds to the human is very very critically inherited.

I love those articles about "Illustrated Standard of the German Shepherd Dog", looking foreward to more from Ms. Shaw. I'd be interesed in one about German Show vs working lines.