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Jim

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After years of complaints and investigations, this cruel organisation still promotes breed standards that cause pain and suffering. Not only is this GSD deformed it also shows bad character for the breed, yet it wins best of breed, :doh: which will ensure someone gets extremely rich while all that is bad in this animal will be passed on to literally thousands of offspring.
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I saw the dog for a few seconds as the judge was picking out dogs from the group. I said then that it's back looked wrong. I have had 2 GSD's and neither of them stood like that, and one of them was the descendant of a Crufts Best in Breed in the '70,s.

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Wasn't the over emphasising/breeding of certain breed characteristics why Crufts and the KC were subject to a backlash a few years ago? Did that not result in the withdrawal of sponsorship and TV coverage contracts due to those concerns? Does this organisation, which claims to operate in the interests of dogs, never learn?

As a household with 3 dogs, I dont watch Crufts, but those GSD pictures have now rubbed me up completely the wrong way. The KC organisation and the breeders should be ashamed of their exploits in both inducing and supporting what is effectively man made deformity.

Have English Bulldog heads reduced enough in size to allow natural birth yet? Various other breeds with breeding induced breathing problems. As you may of guessed, this annoys me somewhat.
 

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i agree.
this is what a working GSD looked like in the 50's.nothing like the show dog of today,that clearly would never be able to do the job they were intended for.
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I know nothing specific about dogs or breeds, but I am a dog lover, and that German Sheperd didn't look happy, and it's rear hind quarters didn't look natural at all. :( Not a nice site.

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In case anyone hasn't seen the footage of this poor dog, have a look at the video clip.



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Its difficult viewing and about time crufts stops this freak show.
 

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GSD's suffer with their back legs anyway later in life and I suspect the Crufts winner will suffer a lot earlier (if he/she is not suffering already):(
 

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That GSD looked terrible.

And what about the gundog winner - a Gordon setter which just happened to be owned by the judge's sister??
 
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I don't know a great deal about GSD but that is just wrong in every way.

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If you read the whole article, all parties agree there is an ongoing problem and it's not being swept under the carpet.

I still think Crufts should be scrapped.
 
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If you read the whole article, all parties agree there is an ongoing problem

They know there is a problem because they have been told about it for 30 years that I know of. That they still ignore it and have not changed the breed standards is the real issue.
 

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Police and security forces are finding it harder to source GSDs that are clear of these inbred traits, some are now using other breeds such as Belgian Malinois. The kennel Club have a lot to answer for their so called breed standards.

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There are so many Scatty, nervous and crippled German Shepherds around. That poor dog exhibited everything wrong with the breed today.
 

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Our GSD was a rescue dog we got as a pup, first thing we did when he was hip scored and found to have hip dysplasia, was to have him neutered so no chance of passing on the faulty gene. Thankfully with hydrotherapy etc he is still managing to get about at 13 yr old
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I find it obscene that some will pay vast amounts of money for so called 'pedigree' animals, as far as I am concerned a dog is a dog not a toy or an ornament.

Buying such animals propagates the system that leads to deformities such as this.The only exception to this in my opinion are working dogs.

Every dog we have ever owned has been a mongrel and mostly rescue dogs, of which there are plenty.

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These practices will continue for as long as people continue to go out of their way to buy these poor animals at extortionate prices.... deliberate mixing one breed with another seems more prevalent than ever just to accommodate a human's desire. (obviously not meaning accidental or Heinz 57s)
 

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This made me feel sick and quite desperate on behalf of that poor dog.
The video discussion talked about removing the breed from competition.
The judge should be removed.

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We watched it and were shocked the dog looked crippled, not that I claim to know anything about dogs and personally cannot stand GSD's Border Collie for me everytime.
We were in Nuremburg last year at a campsite next to the exhibition centre and there was a huge GSD show / competition taking place. The campsite was packed with competitors from the show all with their GSDs and sadly most of them looked exactly like the one at Crufts.
Not a pretty sight.
 
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Some years ago a friend of mine was breeding dalmatians, the kennel club insisted that any pup that didn't make the grade was put down before a pedigree certificate was issued. :(
 

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In case anyone hasn't seen the footage of this poor dog, have a look at the video clip.



Jock.

Jock - I looked at that clip not having watched the programme and I honestly thought it was a scam video - the dog looked as if he had been dragged in off the street, and didn't have a clue as to what was going on! His back looks as if it's been broken. What a terrible competition - and as for the gun dog winner being owned by the judges sister......... the whole thing stinks!

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Some years ago a friend of mine was breeding dalmatians, the kennel club insisted that any pup that didn't make the grade was put down before a pedigree certificate was issued. :(
Unfortunately that's a common thing I think. I worked with Hearing Dogs for Deaf People years ago and the same thing was done when they started to breed Cockerpoos, Springerpoos, etc etc for deaf people who were asthmatic. They had to put a lot of puppies down before they bred the pups that didn't shed hair. :(
 

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These practices will continue for as long as people continue to go out of their way to buy these poor animals at extortionate prices.... deliberate mixing one breed with another seems more prevalent than ever just to accommodate a human's desire. (obviously not meaning accidental or Heinz 57s)
Mixing breeds produces mongrels which traditionally are healthier although fashion does play a part, Labradoodles spring to mind but they aren't a bad dog and they aren't supposed to drop hairs!

But our Charlie is a Border Terrier Jack Russell cross and looks more like an original Border Terrier than the modern versions which seem to have been selected for having the shortest possible nose.

A old Border Terrier.

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The afore-mention mongrel, hiding behind a memorial - fortunately there was no sign off Top Gear.

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A "modern" Border Terrier.

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Where does the sawn-off nose come from?
 

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