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I think Hebson was Shetland sheepdogs. There were certainly Shetlands with that affix around 2005 but not, AFAIK, GSDs.
So, he wasn't epileptic - but WAS an epilepsy carrier? Therefore, he was just as 'dangerous' as Quadrille, if not more so, because many more progeny...
I don't know her - but enquiries amongst friends suggest that she also had an affix 'Cartmel' (or something like that) and she used to show...
What you say is an excellent summary - and is almost 100% correct. The only issue I'd take with it is the last statement "It doesn't affect the...
No, I think that Malcolm Willis is an idiot. But then it was Malcolm Willis who insisted that only German SV dogs were 'correct'. (Until he had a...
Well, you certainly know your stuff - NOT. Indeed, Hendrawen's Quadrille of Eveley was known to carry epilepsy - but then his lines go back to Avon...
Please feel free to name them. ROFL. What drivel. They all had good toplines - unlike Elmo who has a distinct roachback. And, once again, please...
The dog was quite obviously happy to be with its owner. Try looking again - particularly round the 1.50-2.00 mark where he talks about 'correcting'...
Unfortunately, the problem with your argument is that the police dogs are almost all German SV derived. Which is why I fall about laughing when I...
OK - so I see a dog trying to get to his owner and/or the sheep but being prevented to do so by either an electric fence or some un-named...
What I said - if you bothered to read it - was that the GSD was known as "Chien d'Alsace" in France. The term 'Alsatian' wasn't, therefore, unique to...
Nor did I claim they were being used as originally intended. They are part of a number of dogs - mainly border collies - that are used, as I...
As a parallel - it's like saying I'm immunised against diphtheria when the country is in the grip of a smallpox epidemic. Health testing is fine - I...
I don't have pictures, they aren't my dogs. What they look like is a proper non-deformed German Shepherd. Exactly like the ones that won at Crufts...
I'm afraid your ignorance is showing. I know of Alsatians working sheep in Wales. And the owner is quite blunt - his opinion is that the Germanic dog...
There's an unbiased opinion. :shock: None of my dogs are 'quivering messes'. OTOH they aren't uncontrollable, vicious or unsocialised like many...
Because there are two quite distinct conformations of dog under the same name. Because there is a bias in judging where the judges will only award to...
One day we'll get a split breed (I hope ;-) ) I know that there were a lot of Alsatian people went to last year's (2011) Crufts simply to wave the...
I fully agree. I've read and re-read his book and I've looked at the dogs he wanted in the breed - to the extent of choosing the 1925 Sieger to be...
Their 'newer' purpose? Would that be the same purpose that von Stephanitz suggested them for pre WW1? How is that 'new'? er - what standard are...
