Comments/Critique on this bitch please - Page 3

Very nice ,very expressive.Can't see the eyes ,but it is probably bark.Good mask.The tan could be richer and she has a slight dip behind the wither.Overall ,a very nice female.She would probably produce something good along the way.

Regards,Frank

What sharp eyes you have Frank! 

She does have a dip behind her wither.  Her eyes are very, very dark brown and they dance with mischief! 

Thanks for your comments.

Deb 

Deb,
My showline female is not as wide in the chest as I like to see, and she has skinny legs. Your girl has sexy legs LOL

Enjoy her! She is pleasing to the eye, and sounds like a great sport dog if she's tearing your house apart HAAHA!
(My pup figured out how to slide my guest restroom door open and I came home to half a roll of T.P. all over the bathroom floor, and a very pleased puppy!

I'll be posting for a critique of my (almost) adult soon. She is a showline too, from Germany but we've been building her drives up and she just may turn out alright...Even if she isn't the prettiest LOL

Stacy

Too funny Stacy!!
Echo lives for getting into the bathroom and attacking the toilet paper.  I can't tell you how many times I have found only half a roll still on the tube.  She always bites it on the right side of the roll and chews and pulls so that what is normally a 6in wide roll is now about 3in wide and very damp.  I've also found it piled on the floor and strung in one long streamer down my hallway.  I don't know what it is about paper products but she goes ape over tissue, paper towels, newspaper.  She tries to be sneaky but she gets too excited and blows her cover.  I can see the bathroom down the hall from my chair in the living room and she always stops in front of it, pokes her head in, then pulls her head out to see if I'm watching. If I'm not or don't tell her to get out of there the next thing you hear is the rumble of the toilet paper being pulled from the roll. 

Looking forward to your critique request. 
Deb

Hi

She's a very nice bitch.

She looksabove medium size,medium strong , a very well proportion ,black & tan bitch, of very good type.Very good head  & expression,Shows a good reach of neck. The withers could be a little higher,The back is level and the croup is short and slighty steep. The topline shows a dip behind the withers.                                                                                                                    
The front and hind angulations are very good , with an excellent lay of shoulder  and a very good depth of chest.
Standing the front looks turned out ,(East/West ) and I would prefer a better turn of stifle. She shows a good underline                                                                               
 

I would not want Izzy Bitch in the House and i am lucky she lives outside for if she did it would look like a hurricane had gone through it, She is into everything she can get hold of,
I cannot clean out her Pen without shutting myself inside first for she grabs the bass Broom and a tug of war starts i keep it and she has the Muck Pan in her mouth racing round the Garden
i put the Broom down without thinking where she is and its gone again, she is going round the garden like an express train with it
I finish off the cleaning out and she is going for my pocket worrying where her ball normally is and trying to get it out
 Finally i get her leash on her get out the garden gate to go for a walk,  and she then acts like a calm lady as if butter would not melt
Who would want a Pup like that
Steve1

Sonora,

Thanks for the comments.  Everyone has been very helpful with helping me to understand just what I have as far as conformation.  I appreciate all the comments, good or bad.

Steve,

You are too funny.  Sounds like Izzy is a delightful imp.  I wish Echo would walk like a lady on the leash.  Sometimes I think she is part Husky the way she pulls me along.  I have to admit she is much better than she used to be but she needs a lot of work yet.

Deb

Deb
When we get outside the house she has to, but when i say walk on the leash, she is not looking up so much and staying exactly in the right position it is not fair to expect that and i do not want her too,
She can walk and enjoy herself without pulling me around, when we get about 500 yd from the house there is a grass verge she can walk along when we get to the place where i give her a bit of Obedience training it all changes then,
First she must sit look up and we start then she changes again and her attention is on me left and right turns not in that order say three right one left, two left one right or one of each keeps her guessing and she will watch and focus, In between some Halts she sits immediately at my leg, I say SIT although she is in the sit position walk a couple of paces wait with my back to her, turn and go to her side or walk around her and back to her side, then we go on Halt again i stand in front i say 'Voot' and she will do a bunny jump and turn and sit at my leg. Not perfect yet but coming on good for a 6 month old Pup. Then in between these exercises she gets a treat, after work is done she is let loose and can run in a big area of grass, When i want her to me to walk home i call her have her ball on a short rope in my hand she is soon there to take it off me to carry back home and i pick up the short leash that she still has on and we go off home The leash i may say is a cotton line without a loop on the end so it cannot catch round her leg two nights a week we go to the training club and one time Sunday mornings so thats how i get her to work for me
Steve1

Deb,
Your story had my husband and I laughing... She is too sneaky LOL I can picture her peeking around the corner. I have an idea... Get a second pup and one can "keep watch" for the other :-) Wouldn't that be so much fun? hehehe

Steve,
The same with your story. We had a good laugh about izzy Bitch. When Indi has an accident in the house I have to have Matt watch her in the other room, or crate her, because she tries to "catch"  the paper towel as I'm cleaning the mess... Great fun for her. Not so much for me

Thanks for the laughs guys... These dogs can be the most frustrating, entertaining and wonderful parts of our lives.

Stacy

Thanks for the tips Steve.  Echo actually does pretty good on the training field.  It's the going to & from that she pulls so hard.  She loves training so she drags me to the field.  When we're done she drags me back to the car.  I was sooo excited when I told her to sit next to me in the heel position and when she didn't sit just right I said "fuss" and she did a little hop sideways to move her butt next to my leg.  It was like "YESSS!" she understands.  She spends a lot of time looking around rather than at me and we are working on that.  As long as she is in position paying attention to me I don't need her looking at me but she hasn't gotten that far yet.  She loves the jump and the A-frame and I have her retrieving a ball on a string on those.  She is not quite into the dumbell yet.  She is working on the heeling & the sit while I walk on and the down while I walk on.  Her long down is pretty good while I'm in sight.  She loves the protection work.  She loves to watch the big boys do their protection work.  But she is head strong and willful.  I kinda like that about her but she can be trying.  Right now she is using her nose to push my keyboard shut which is making it difficult to type to say the least.  She says it's time to pay her some attention!  Pest!

Stacy, I know just what you mean about the paper towels and trying to clean something up.  It's not going to happen if she can get a hold of it.  Glad you got a laugh out of our girl's antics.  I about wet myself over Izzy Bitch playing keep a way with Steve.  And you are soooo right about the frustrating,entertaining and wonderful part of our lives, our GSDs.

Deb