Here is the extended footage of the gsds at the Manchester show taken for the Pedigree Dogs exposed programme: http://www.dogmagazine.net/archives...eleases-extended-footage-of-german-shepherds/ Personally, I find the way they are walking pretty shocking (although I know that straining against the leash makes it look worse). Is this the usual standard of the gsd show dogs in the UK, or are these an extreme examples? I really hope it is the latter.
Have to say I saw this on another forum. I was shocked it just didnt look like a normal walk for a GSD the back legs looked quite deformed. I was wondering if perhaps it was because they were pulling on the leash or something. Still didnt look a normal movement though.
i saw this on another forum- i think the floor and the straining against the leash makes it look slightly worse but nevertheless that is the desired standard amongst the show fraternity. they do it purely for the side gate of the dog ie. the dogs back legs largely over track the foreleg foot print
Sorry about the dodgy link, I think that the dogsey system automatically edited it, but I don't know how to fix it.
At the show there was 122 dogs/bitches entered JH as admitted that she 'cherry picked' the footage she is anti- WG lines and as been targeting them since 2006
That may be so Wildmoor, but those dog still look pretty bad. Are you saying that those dogs are the exception to the the WG showlines, and most are not as extreme as that? I hope so.
If they are anything like the dog that won, then I thought the movement was absolutely appalling. If one of my dogs moved in such a way I would be worried it had a serious injury.
Whether she chose the worst examples or not, it is shocking that dogs are deliberately bred to be 'disabled'. I am sorry to use such a strong word but it is shocking and I feel the dogs concerned are disabled. Poor, poor dogs, I couldn't believe what I was seeing when I saw them on the original programme and found it horrific.
Yes I am saying that I have 2 WG line dogs one from a Belgian sire and 1 from a Korean bred dog, mine are in the fields from 8wks old, no problems with hips lol 1 even as 0:0, no problems with hocks. Well werewolf I can assure you it isnt dissabling not like severe HD or ED, Epilepsy etc etc. yes there are problems in movement with some dogs the breeders dont deliberately breed them like that!, 1 of mine was loose in the hocks as a youngster but time and exercise corrected that fault so by the time he was a juvenile he was fine and extremely agile esp if it comes to rabbits or hares. Niether of his parents had any problems with their length of hock, and he is the 1 with zero hips before anyone asks. There are many more problems within the breed that do affect quality and length of life much more seriously than this and predominately in other types.
that reminded me of a wee pom mix pup from another forum i'm on, he has osteomyelitis and his hocks are very similar to those GSDs though to a worse degree.
GSD only tend to get juvenile osteomyelitis in the fore limbs normaly called panosteitis, or occaisionaly in the back as far as I am aware there as only been 1 reported case relating to the tibia and fibula and it was caused by an opertunist fungus Phialemonium obovatum.
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