Continued from PART 1 Adding The Row ‘Emma’ Now that we have added a second row to form a column, a comment is in order that will greatly reduce your labor. Look ahead to the completed Table 3 e, for a moment. If you draw a diagonal line down the matrix from the cell …
September 12, 2001 start: It is always difficult to begin writing, whether it be a book or a short article. But this time it feels like I am trying to push an enormous boulder up a hill. The heavy weight of tragedy is there, the onslaught having occurred on the …
[note: this first appeared as “Cryptorchidism in the German Shepherd Dog,” but is applicable to all breeds.] The most common congenital* anomaly of the scrotum and testicles is the apparent absence of one or both gonads. I use the word “apparent” because the missing testicle(s) usually are actually present inside the body cavity of the …
Hope that you never have a litter with cleft palates. But if you do, this may explain the cause of at least some cases. Let’s start at the beginning, with a short review of the birds and the bees. The sperm cell, with half the chromosomes needed for a new pup …
updated November 2011. The subject ailment is an imbalance in mineral assimilation resulting in abnormal deposits, sometimes between bones, often in layers of the skin or integument. Calcium deposits in the skin can be the result of injury, of metabolic changes, or of unknown factors. Since mineralization (calcium deposits) in skin can occur in a …
I recently led a tour of Europe for a small group of people from all over the U.S. and even one from Germany. The center of focus was the German Bundessiegerzuchtschau (“Bunde” can refer to a German club, you know that “Sieger” means “winner”, and “zucht” means breed or, in …
The Front Variously called the front assembly, forequarters, or shoulder, the whole combination made by the shoulder blade (scapula), upper arm (humerus), breastbone (sternum), and their related soft tissues is at the heart of much poor movement in German Shepherd Dogs the world …
NBHA Amateur Championship Trial, April 2004 by Fred Lanting There are many “registries” in the world of dogs. A registration organization is one that takes care of the paperwork regarding the ancestry and other details about the dogs belonging to a group of fanciers in a given association. On the 31st of …
Schutzhund-Versatility Test Level-1 (SchH-1/VPG-1) for working dogs. (IPO is identical) Three divisions: Phase A100 points Phase B100 points Phase C100 points Total:300 points SchH/VPG-1, Phase “A”, TRACKING Search (unguided): at least 300 steps, 3 legs, 2 corners (approx. 90°), 2 articles belonging to the dog handler, the track at least 20 minutes …
Revised 2012 German Shepherd Dog Myelopathy, also known as DM for Degenerative (chronic and progressive) Myelopathy (spinal cord disease), or CDRM in the UK, is the first disorder that comes to mind when German Shepherd Dogs and spinal lesions are spoken of together. Almost peculiar to Shepherds, the first symptoms are usually seen at more …