Liesje
Posted : 1/9/2008 8:36:35 AM
DumDog
however i think the clubs have exaggerated it beyond the point of being stupid.. no dog should stand like that unless they are in the process of peeing...
It's really just certain lines though, and of course those are the only dogs you will see on TV b/c most of the time the public sees GSDs it's just the top American shows. I would say, most of the GSDs I see from ANY type/line are not so extremely angulated in the rear.
Look at Kenya, and she is a conformation champion (old pic of her from her younger, showing days):
This is another dog from Kenya's breeder, conformation grand champion (UKC) and on her way to AKC champion. Not too angulated, IMO:
I really like a lot of the EurosportK9 dogs, but they always seem to overstretch their stacks in their pics (rear leg too far back:
And this lovely black sable (Czech import, someone told me), doesn't appear very angulated and won ribbons at a show I was at: