[ZULU]

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.

[the OlLine Rebel]

THANK YOU for posting that hypocrisy. Even in the "illustrated standard", the GSDCA STILL shows a '50-era dog.

There was talk the other year of updating the illustrations. Guess it hasn't happened yet. Thank God. Maybe someday Joe Schmoe will call the snobs on the carpet for their hypocrisy.

Exactly what I meant when I said the snobs ignore the standard while telling everyone they follow it!

[brytlea]

The withers are higher than and sloping into the level back.

I'm not an expert on shepheds but it would appear to me that THIS does not describe many of the show dogs I've seen in the ring. I would describe the topling as sloping and then dropping away in the rear.

Of course, watch the dogs move in a trot and you will see why they breed for that extreme rear. The flying trot is wonderous to behold. However, I don't know what the purpose is.

susie