The issue of what is a correct head comes up every once in a while. I believe the reason is because the percentage of newer people in the sport and breed increases and changes steadily, and they often come into the family without proper tutoring by knowledgeable elders or sufficient study of their own. The …
A lady told me that she had spent thousands so far in raising a small litter (six pups to four months old) and the costs had not yet finished mounting, even though she paid no stud fee or shipping, since she owned the sire, too. This was her first attempt at breeding and will probably …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Revised December 2011. Years ago, in the age of print media, there was a situation in the German Shepherd Dog Club of America in which people were striving in vain to speak out about the GSD Breed Standard. In many cases, members were not allowed to express their opposing opinions on the breed Standard in …
Revised 2012. As the author of “Canine Hip Dysplasia,” and an international lecturer on orthopedic disorders, as well as a dog show judge, I am frequently asked to comment on similarities and differences in the procedures used and information obtained when radiographs are taken for OFA and other leg-extended positions as compared to the PennHIP …
© Copyright June, 1998, 2004 by FRED LANTING and LELAND CARMICHAEL, DVM, PhD, (Professor at Cornell) Reprinted with permission from Fred Lanting and PureBred Dogs/American Kennel Gazette, August 1988; pp. 88-93. Copyright owner: Fred Lanting Breeders’ responses to early puppy deaths vary. Some expend a great deal of effort, while others “let nature take its …
Revised 2012. (As They Relate to Function and AKC & UK Breed Standards, with Special Attention to Leg-length Ratios and the Tendency toward 13-, 14-, and 15-inch Cairns. Plus, Comments on Other Short Terriers.) Several people over the years have commented on my article “A Matter of Proportion” first published in magazines, and later on …
Sometimes an advance in knowledge is unfortunately brought on by problems. A decade or so after the new Century dawned, we started hypothesizing about the alarming increase in failures in the dog breeding community that we had been hearing about for the past 10 or 15 years. I know I was not the only one …