People take actions based not so much on logic and reasoning as on emotional bases. This is something I learned in some 33 years in the business of chemicals marketing. I saw the same thing in my experience as a breeder since the ’40s, a handler since the ’60s, and a judge since the ’70s. …
Bathing During or following the semi-annual major hair loss, you can bathe the dog, if he still needs washing, with a good pH-balanced shampoo especially formulated for dogs. Baby shampoo will do as well, and as long as you don’t wash him too frequently, plain old hand soap is good enough. Bathing will help loosen …
INTRODUCTION Before we get into the meat of the matter, let’s review the OFA-type definitions of canine hip dysplasia, referred to here as HD. Mild HD: Significant subluxation, only partial coverage by the acetabular rim, and usually no arthritic changes (yet). A fairly recent development in OFA’s operating rules is that if a dog rated …
THE EASIEST METHOD Get some “Dr. Scholl’s” type shoe inserts designed to give comfort if you have bad shoes or bunions. Use a scissors to cut a roughly-triangular shape that will fit inside the ear. At the wider base of this flat triangle, cut a small inverted narrow V shape out so you’ll be able …
It truly was a great pleasure for me to lecture in Estonia in mid-spring of 2007, and to judge part of their Sieger Show. Exhibitors came from all over the Baltic region: Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Sweden, and I believe a few from Russia (handled by Russians, if not). As one of two SV judges, I …
Continued from PART 1 GENETIC EVIDENCE The finding of CDRM in several littermate pairs, combined with the acknowledged high incidence of the disease in the German shepherd breed in general suggested that a genetic factor may well be involved in the aetiology of the disease, as previously suggested (Clemmons, 1989). Due to this unusually high …
Most German Shepherd Dogs (the full name of the breed) are colored, and these are listed as: 1. sable (see Fig.1), 2. black-and-tan (let’s call this one “B&T” referring to a dog with a black saddle, Fig.2), 3. black-and-tan of the Rottweiler-type coloration (usually called “bi-color”), and 4. solid black–including black hair under the tail …
Our dog Donar was a German Shepherd Dog, a first-class, purebred dog with a first-class pedigree. Still, he was once declared not worthy according to the Breed Standard of the German people. Our dog belonged first to a master chimneysweep. The chimneysweep had a passion for hunting and wanted a hound. Donar was not of …
This article is not a detailed, complicated study of coat color genetics. I have written other pieces to answer that need. Here, I would like to aim this toward the beginner, though it should be a good review for the veteran breeder and valuable to people whose experience is only in one or two breeds. …
As a kid during the war (the big one) I used to read comic books and later watch movies with Charlie Chan (no relation to Jackie) that had mistaken ideas of the way Chinese talked and acted, no doubt holdovers from the fabricated fancies of the late 19th-Century novels about building the railroads in the …