LOL, I don’t know much about Dobes, but your diagram is so much as we sometimes see accompanying GS standards. I don’t know what you think of Dobe standards today.
Honestly, I don’t think there is much wrong with the “AKC” GS standard (or pictures), as most AKC-haters do.
I think it’s like the Constitution - it’s still officially there, and some even pay lip-service to it, but they don’t actually abide by it at all.
That is the problem. As long as there is a power clique that decides what it likes, they control what wins, etc. Doesn’t matter what the document says.
The Dobe standard hasn’t changed in a long time...and they still “allow for 4 missing teeth”.
I remember when *1* missing tooth got you booted from the ring.
[in Europe, it still would]
Other than that, I think the -standard- is just great.
Too bad breeders and judges never read it.
When Odin’s papers came, the time-worn “AKC perfect Dobe” was pictured on them and I had to laugh.
*Nobody* anywhere looks at that drawing and then looks at the current dogs?
The standard still calls for level backs, strong necks, “square bodies”, tails which look like an extension of the spine, etc etc etc....and then dogs who don’t even remotely resemble the standard win in the ring.
Talk about cognitive dissonance and radical disconnect.
Sheesh.
I stopped watching Westminster and stopped going to the local shows because I started to worry I’d blow an artery the next time another freakish thing won breed...LOL
Same thing happened with Ibizan Hounds but in an incredibly short amount of time.
Nobody knows which came first...judges who had no idea what they were looking at or breeders who disregarded what they knew was incorrect in favor of pleasing the judges who didn’t know what they were looking at.
The blind leading [or following] the stupid, I reckon.
I’m whooped.
I just gave the dogs their first-ever fresh deer legs and they all “went native”.
I got so tired of listening to the snarling and barking that I went out and fiddled with the snakes’ enclosures for a while.
[they’re so nice and QUIET]...LOL
Then I came back in the LR and took away the deer legs and put them in the freezer.
Maybe in a month or two I’ll be more in the mood to have “Wolfen” being re-enacted in house.
[canine atavism...what a thrill]
;D