Pedigree help inbreed? - Page 2

welp, since this thread is still at the top, I would have to ask what has/does the breeder contribute to even knowing what are the good characteristics of a GSD as compared to the standard of the GSD.

does the breeder do LE/Mil, Sport, Show? I have serious doubts about "breeders" who do not present their dogs to be evaluated against what others are doing in that venue and what they claim their GSD are.

and really, I have my own opinion what a GSD should be, but I have never kept my opinion in the back yard.

seriously, if the breeder takes their dogs out of the back yard and stacks them up with what others are doing in the same venue, then you have a base level of comparison, for whatever the breeder is claiming the dogs are good for.

if not, then it is just a yakker selling pups to folks who don't know better, which I kind of think is happening here, but I'm always open to education.

jmo,
Rik

Yeah, I think I want to come back in, mainly on KitKat's post. Firstly, while of course its true a lot of buyers don't know anything when it comes to the ancestry, I don't think its entirely true they are all completely uninterested in the contents of the pedigree ! Many are very proud to know if there are Champions or Trials winners on there, (lol), even when they know nothing else about the dogs' performance, or their lines !

And as Sunny pointed out, there is a lot of missing info on health tests etc which these days more puppy buyers WOULD like to have, even without a full understanding - and breeders should be encouraging that.

Secondly, on the point of having qualifications - in any venue that sets one example of a dog against another, in any way - it may be true that a dog without high honours can still be a perfectly good dog for family purposes, and not every dog that enters can win ... but I'd be suspicious of any 'breeder' who wasn't trying to qualify their stock in anything. That shows their own ignorance about the breed. And to my mind might be excusable in an established person who has done the hard yards and has a background in producing good dogs, and is maybe now getting older - but not in someone who started breeding 'last year'.

 

I am good with what anyone does with their dogs. Show, Sport, LE/MIL, obedience, dock diving, rescue, whatever. I have my views and opinions but try to respect other opinions and experience.

but folks breeding dogs and making claims without either the breeder or the dogs having any accomplishments in those claimed venues is absurd to me.

it's kind of like someone needing serious legal advice and getting it from someone with no legal experience. (think that's called "solicitors" in other parts of the PDB world.

jmo,
Rik