Not just for GSDs...

Loved it!

Specific dogs? Well, there were;

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12 Bloody hell, that is an athletic animal!
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25 It means it!!
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and perhaps the same dog has been on before, 42, that dog can come and live with me tomorrow!! ;)

May I wish all of you a peaceful time? Not all will agree with me, about everything, but this is a lovely section, filled with lovely people, and I hope that next year brings you all that you would wish for yourselves, and your woofers!! ;)

Alec.
 
Didn't count them but was 42 the mal that did the backwards heelwork and then went in for a bite on the thigh, loved him.
Great viewing, thanks CC.
I agree Alec, we may disagree with other people in here but generally are able to have reasoned debate, and if necessary can agree to differ without malice. Happy Christmas one and all.
 
I have since done some intense research on Devon and Gonrad, the longcoats, and I now plan to steal them :D

Indeed Alec and MM (do you think Pickle could turn his paw to Ring sport?! :p) I do enjoy chinwagging with this 'cliquey' pack of 'bitches' :D :p
Hope everyone is having a good one, watching Ice Age 3 with the Floofster :) and B is demolishing most of a cow.
 
I'll tell H to get training him. There have been heelers who have qualified at the lower levels of WT but not sure if any have got as far as PD. Mind you Pickle would be ok with gun test, we fired a party popper and he ran across and caught the streamer things before they even hit the ground. :D
 
Some great dogs there , that one that took off a mile away is fantastic . Loved the look of Conrad ( think that is his name ). As a child I lived on the continent , the last five years were spent in Germany and the police and army dogs( German) didn't look like regular GSD ( or Al-say-shuns , this was the seventies after all!;)) though I always assumed they would be . A few dogs on there looked like the dogs I remember , short , grey black coats . GSD mafia would they be the mals or are they GSD ? Often wondered but just assumed GSD as we were in Germany or would they have been working lines ? CC could you post the link again for that little terrier that was called Jones or something similar , friend is keen to see it and I can't find it .
 
Yes, workingline continental GSDs tend to be dark grey and tight coated (although Gonrad is a floof like mine :p) or black (and sometimes, but rarely floofy, like mine :p)
They are here in the UK if you know where to look for them :)
Their roots tend to be east German, Belgian, Dutch, Czech Republic etc.
West Germany focuses more on the showlines but there are some good West German workinglines too, my fella is mostly Belgian/Dutch on top with a tiny little bit of old English and West German showlines in the motherline.

The mals are the fawn dogs with black masks.

Put 'Claudia Romard/Mr Murphy' into YouTube and you should find what you are looking for :D
 
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They can come in a darker brindly-type colour too but there are a lot of different lines and diversity in the breed.
Dutch shepherds are very similar but they are taller usually and much darker.

Here's a handy guide to GSDs which explains better than I can...
http://www.shawlein.com/the-gsd/the-gsd-family/

Quoted for East Kent :D :p
"This is the true “German Old Style”, a Sieger from the 1920s. The dog’s dry bone, leg length, shallow chest and square proportions make the breed’s kinship with the Malinois quite apparent. The breed’s founder decided that a more powerful dog was wanted, with a lower stationed, trotting structure that was not so massive as to detract from the dog’s speed and agility. These early dogs are the breed’s history and foundation, but breeders have developed better dogs than this, and there is no good reason to return to the past."

VA1 Erich v Grafenwerth
 
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