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I haven't read the standard. I wonder what it actually describes? I know in goldens we have had things that became popular, even tho they did not really follow the standard. (coat for instance!)
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156 posted on 07/10/2006 1:16:09 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)

See:

http://www.gsdca.org/Noframes/standard/IllStan1.htm

I'm not sure from the standard if that kind of build is really called for.

160 posted on 07/10/2006 1:25:27 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)

You describe EXACTLY what happens in GS. I fear it happens to every breed.

On both sides of the pond - the standard as is is basically UNCHANGED from 50+ years ago. Both are perfectly acceptable standards. However (referring much to my "cliquish" comment to you bryt elsewhere), it seems the network of high-level high-power breed fanciers decided what was good and right, and the standard be damned.

To me, it's just like the the Constitution.

The powerful all insist "we conform to the standard", until everyone believes it.

Then you can continue on your non-standard path even while the words are written plain for all to see. Monkey see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. It's become a sham.