[Tim Martens]

http://www.aniwa.com/renvoie.asp?type=1&id=101809&cid=103053&com=1&animal=0&lang=2&session

interesting article with lots of pictures going back through the history of the GSD...

 

[Woody Taylor]

http://www.aniwa.com/renvoie.asp?type=1&id=101809&cid=103053&com=1&animal=0&lang=2&session

interesting article with lots of pictures going back through the history of the GSD...

Showline history, right?

Edited to say...Ch Klodo V Boxberg is a pretty, pretty dog. Too bad they don't look like that anymore.

 

[Bob Scott]

Thanks Tim! Very interesting.
Woody, there was no huge distinction between showline and working line up till the "improvement" :roll: in the breed during the 60s-70s.

 

[Jeff Oehlsen]

You can blame it on the sickly, but attractive Lance of Fran-Jo here in the states. What a piece of shit this thing was. %ucked like a rabbit, and so influenced the American showlines crap we see now. Shame on them.

 

[Jeff Oehlsen]

Ch Klodo V Boxberg was a fear biter. Good start right? Good thing he was pretty.

 

[Woody Taylor]

Ch Klodo V Boxberg was a fear biter. Good start right? Good thing he was pretty.

Just talking about the appearance of the dog. no idea about his temperment.

Yeah, I know about the showline schism from past postings...but what I was saying (asking) specifically is that this lineage chart is a showline run of dogs (referring to the last few generations with the roach backs, etc.)?.?.

 

[Jose Alberto Reanto]

In my opinion, thread title should have been "The DEVOLUTION OF THE GSD".

 

[Stacia Porter]

Ch Klodo V Boxberg was a fear biter. Good start right? Good thing he was pretty.

Just talking about the appearance of the dog. no idea about his temperment.

Yeah, I know about the showline schism from past postings...but what I was saying (asking) specifically is that this lineage chart is a showline run of dogs (referring to the last few generations with the roach backs, etc.)?.?.

Woody, you are very right: that chart was showline. Most of those dogs on that chart are in my dog's pedigree.

As for the de-evolution comment: to each his own. I must say I've wrinkled my nose at the looks of more than one working line gsd...