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You’ll not find a lot of liberal Dobe owners.

The largest Dobe forum on the net has chat rooms wherein we all gripe about Obeyme, discuss what guns we prefer and agree as one mind that we despise peta and all eco-freaks.

Same with the snake forums.

Very few liberals there, either.

I just watched the breed ring judging.

There seems to be another ‘fad’ replacing the old sickle-hock syndrome; “strange” top lines.

Several of the dogs were sway backed as judged by the standard, IMO.

The standard calls for a “straight top line that slightly slopes to the rear” and apparently they’re obsessing over the “straight” part now, to the point of being flat like a table.

This is not ergonomically rational unless you happen to be a Fox Terrier.

It messes up the gait.

Very few were single tracking, either.

[Fifi leaves ‘one line of paw prints’...she singles like a dream]

There was a nice black male there too that I hope comes back next year.

Haven’t finished watching yet to see if he placed or not.

FWIW, if I were running the world of Dobes, I would -stop- breeding Fawns and Blues.

By the time they’re 4 or 5, they’re going bald and have immune system issues as a matter of course.

That is *not* an acceptable “breed trait”.

[but hey, we gotta have something “different looking”, ya know]

I’m happy that ear length seems to be becoming more sane, as well.

Those trot-flopping full length “Crusader Rabbit” ears are a joke.

I see the standard now allows *4* missing teeth.

The Euros allow NO missing teeth.

Missing teeth correlate to head structure and soundness and should not be allowed here, either.

But, there it is.

*4*.

[in the late 70’s, I remember being horrified that *2* were “allowed”]