A look at conformation & movement of 2014 VAs - Page 17

Please compare Vegas's video with Dingo's, and you will see how much more Dingo extends his hocks to the rear than Vegas does.

As for the leash argument, I also posted a photo of Vegas gaiting OFF LEAD, and his footfall sequence is STILL incorrect. The front foot is 4 inches in the air while the hock is on the ground.

If a dog cannot do a correct trot, it is not balanced. Fine, reinvent the definition of the trot if you want. I will stlll not be convinced!

"The trot is a two-beat gait, with diagonally opposite legs moving in unison."

ibraham- thx again. heis gaiting in the obedience video. i believe he could have more front extention. but his movement in person is fluid n floating. i didnt get him to campaign him though. i also fell in love with rin tin tin and also roy roger's "bullet". when i met my first shep as a kid i was enthralled. I remember it like yesterday.

when i bought my first and he escaped to find his owner who came over called him once and he was there. he told me thats how a shep is. i never forgot that from 40 years ago!

 

Dear Ibrahim - Always love to read your constructive discussion on the whole VA's n breed really appreciated- You also please put light on the size of Gsd participated in current seiger . As it seems that we are now in to the face of compact size Gsd after this seiger . what you think is it good to have standard 65 cm dogs n chance are less or more that we are able to find more correct anotomy. Topic is slightly going to change so better u made seprate post on it as well about gsd size reducing from 67 to 65 ???

In standard height of male is 60 - 65 cms, I often hear this term from judges " correct medium size" which means aim should be to produce a height of 63.5 cms which is the medium. I agree with you that their seems to be more imphasis on correct size, maybe Susie can confirm that !

No doubt medium size means too lighter dog and helps in agility.

The problem is partially us not only the breed or breeders, average person does not really know exactly what his eyes are seeing. That is not only about anatomy but also true about work ability ( bite ).

I myself am a little less than an average on bite. I did not recognize differences between a good bite and a very good bite, when explained to me then it gets clear and I wonder why I didn't see it myself !  reason is I didn't know what to look for.

Same goes for structure, some people don't know if what they are looking at is a good croup or a very good croup, or even a faulty croup and so on. 

The problem sometimes when professionals and experienced discuss issues related to work side of dogs, they use terms many don't comprehend,  newbies should not hesitate to ask for meaning, almost always they get an explanation .

 

The seize still is a problem. Some dogs are within regular seize, but a lot are not. Correct medium seize right now is a 64 - 65 cm male, not less.
It´s difficult, because a lot of people ( and a huge amount of them outside of Germany ) are looking for oversized dogs, and are willing to pay for them.