German Shepherd Dog breeder mistakes

How can one say that Stephanitz would be proud when talking about a dog that was bred for looks?

"Our German Shepherd Dogs, moreover, have never been bred for colour which for the working dog is a matter of quite secondary consideration"
"Should any fashion breeder allow himself to persue such a senseless fad..."

What would Stephanitz say about todays German Shepherd Dog breeding and evaluation proceedings?

Answer: "The Belgiums are zealous and clever breeders, but the breeders of the shepherd dog entirely overlook the question of utility and emphase the importance of the external appereance, which afterall is only subsidary. The shape of the head, the carriage of the ears, the tail, the hair, and above all, colour weigh with them. Ererything in hair and colour which does not sufficiently fall in with what any of these paltry little societies consider as ideal in the race is considered as not "race pure". The results of inbreeding which naturally must become more and more inevitable, are bound to appear, because an invigoration of the strain of these dogs, by means of dogs from the country stock, is rendered impossible by such narrow minded ideas."...
This is what Stephanitz had to say about the Belgium Shepherd Dogs at the time when the German Shepherd Dog was accepted as a utile service dog a working dog and was bred only with that thought in mind! Today we live in a world that has changed the shepherd so much that he is now classed as a trotting dog!!!

Stephanitz would be proud of my dog he completed IPO 1 and has the darkest tan you would ever see..

Answer: "The Belgium are as keen trainers as they are breeders; but for all this, they lay stress, by reason of their ineviteable trend of thought, on matters which are entirely beside the point, such as external features, trivialities and circus competitions..."

The best way to show your dog is by putting him on a leash and urging him to strain forward

"the most natural position is when he stands alone. If he is on a leash there is allways a dangeour that he may strain forward and the position of the neck, as well as that of the forehead and hind legs, will be constrained."

The best photograph is by pulling his hind legs back macking his back look ever so more sloped

"Hind legs must not stand to far back it gives a bad effect on the lines of the back."
"Every inteference with the dog's position, which would result in anything like artificiality, must be strictly avoided"
"The back legs must not be pulled back into a position"

A phrase on a wanna be breeders web page: "We breed German Shepherd Dogs for sport not crappy showlines"

"In the contradistinction to the utility and the working breeds, there is the breeding of sporting dogs, which indeed procures a temporary advance, but which, however, is allways succeeded by detorioration"
"The word 'sport' allways means competition for the highest, is true, but this competition reaches its high-water mark in Exhibitions, which, just because they demand no real capabilities, lead people only too easily astray to lay emphasis entirely on external shape and beauty, instead of on what really mattered"
"Sport is supposed to exclude business... The word conceals all kinds of obscure and unsavoury things which have nothing to do with genuine sport"

Another web page boasts "The German Shepherd Dog was large not small like today, our shepherd dogs are larger than any shepherd dog you can find"

"The most suitable size for service dogs is something between 21" and 25" (53.3cm - 63.5cm). Bitches 21"-23" (53.3cm - 58.4cm), Dogs 22.5" - 25" (57.4 - 63.5cm). Many people believe, that their dog gains in value when he is 'very large'. They are often supporeted in their foolish mess by the folly of many buyers who wish to have, not a shepherd dog, but a very cerberus, and who imagine that such a giant dog could retain the shape and the nature of a shepherd dog. Every form of life has its distinct and natural limits within which it may lawfully develop. If it should transgress these limits so as to exceed, or come short of them, it degenerates, cuts itself of from the competition for the survival of the fitest, un must go under"

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