how is this balanced beautiful gait restricted? do u want more angles like todays gsd?

This dog isn't paralyzed and he has amazing muscles are you blind.

@@artiicom Looks like paralysed. And where do you see muscles?

The American GSD is trash in the show ring now imho. The rears are egg beaters and their butts drag the ground.

Aww, do you have pictures or a video? I'd love to see. I've often found that dogs which embody what the breed is supposed to look like, tend to embody the temperaments they're supposed to have as well.

this dog wasn't just a show dog,and this gait didn't lack power...while many of today's German dog's do lack power. This dog was working dog and was one of the best German Shepherds in the German Show bloodlines. If only todays dogs would've retained his traits they wouldn't be looking the way they look now.(not that its bad but because it could help as far as functionality goes)

lol. you have absolutely no idea.

Susan A. you're embarrassing yourself. This dog worked. Yet another moron heard from. Funny how it's the people who know the least who judge the most.

He wasn't JUST a show dog. He was a very good working dog as well. And he was very powerful. This slow motion vid low key did him dirty. This gait is just for show either. It's for herding, which is the GSDs original purpose. It allows the dogs to cover the maximum amount of ground with the least amount of strides. It preserves energy and stamina and gives better control over the sheep.

Because we care about the Breed!

@@bryanhuggins1299 show line GSDs are a great example of the breed and are bred for the ORIGINAL PURPOSE of this breed. Herding. GSDs we're not meant to be intense guard dogs like the doberman.

+Brian Loopy Pure-breeding has been ruining a number of dogs for decades now, including the GSD. Beginning in the 1970s, dog fanciers began preferring GSDs with a low croup and hocks, i.e. a sloping back and angled hind legs. This could have been to increase stride for the "flying trot," or to promote a permanent dramatic pose when standing (like a hero coming over the rise) - both for the show ring, not functionality. In either case, that modification is ruinous to these dogs, which now have difficulty standing, walking, and jumping. If you look at GSDs from a century ago, they had normal, level toplines like other dogs and wolves. The best thing would be to return to that as soon as possible.

nothing was wrong with this dog. He was actually an excellent dog with perfect health, he lived a long life and was a titled working dog. If you looked closely he was actually much better than today's German showlines

Rex German Shepherd No, canids are not supposed to have sloping backs like hyeanids. There are still fine working line German shepherds and other landrace German herding dogs, but all of those have normal, level backs, and not distorted toplines like this one.

***** this dog didn't have a disorted back like the ones from the bloodline today. Btw something I don't like is when people dont use the right terms to describe the dogs. This is not sloped it would be considered curved. A curve is not bad but a roach is and todays dogs unfortunetly do have roaches which is unhealthy. Plus I never said it was how they were suppose to look, just saying that this individual dog was great compared to other German Showlines.

Paz & Rex the German Shepherd Yes, although I'm a biologist, sometimes I use slang terms to speak more plainly. You sacrifice some accuracy that way, but you appeal to a broader audience. Anyway, canids have had level top lines for 40 million years, and it's a big mistake to breed GSDs with curved croups, just like it's a big mistake to breed dogs with flat faces, droopy ears, long backs, deep wrinkles, etc. It's bad enough that most breeds are inbred, but breeding for freakish bodies adds another problem, and that is mechanical dysfunction. All dogs, be they stock dogs, sled dogs, guard dogs, or just pets, should have a normal canid body plan. Yes, there are sadly worse GSDs out there now than the one in this video. But if you look at the landrace and even purebred ancestors of GSDs like this one, you will see that their top lines are straight, and they are more agile and less prone to hip dysplasia because of that. Breeders should just keep domestic wolves (dogs) normal and stop messing around with them so much. They're not art, they're animals.

***** Do you realize that this is a German dog, not American?? That's actually pretty spectacular movement lol. This is how they should move, not the VA dogs we have now.

+Buffyjosmom You sound like a parrot ignorantly spewing words they do not understand but merely mimic. You couldn't be more clueless if you tried. I love it when people like you who know nothing but believe they are "experts" open their mouths and identify themselves as the misinformed blowhards that they are. Your vitriol may impress those who know even less than you, but it does nothing but reveal how uneducated about this breed you are to those who actually do have the knowledge you pretend to possess.

I mean I agree on American line show breeders diverting from the original intent of the GSD...but this dog is not that lol.

Darlene Molina I know GSDs, they are my favorite breed besides Dachshunds. I know what a GSD is supposed to look like thanks. Its because of GSD show idiots ruining the breed that I show doxies instead. I won't be a part of aiding in the destruction of the breed I love. Why is it everyone but GSD breeders can see it? You guys are like Emporer NERO, people are telling you you are killing the breed like they told Nero he was killing Rome but you won't listen like he didn't.

+Buffyjosmom Helloooo? Are you reading?? THIS IS NOT AN AMERICAN SHOW LINE DOG!!! I loathe show lines. You seem to not be able to see that this is NOT a show line GSD. THIS is what they SHOULD move like! Didn't you see...he's SV, SchH III, and the SG rated him the best. That's NOT the US!!! The working line breeders see this video as a GREAT example of movement.

Lynette Watson Clueless... Sorry but had to say

+Lynette Watson The GSD was originally bred for herding and as each breed has its own unique way of herding livestock, so does the GSD. They are meant to be a moving fence line and able to gait all day long encircling the herd and keeping them in one general area. This means they need to have the type of movement that produces the greatest amount of space covered with the least amount of effort exerted. It's not about speed. It's about endurance.

Lynette, GSDs were bred to be trotting dogs. Not runners or walkers, trotters. Their length allows them to cover a large distance with each step with little effort, and trotting allowed them to move herds over long distances, or constantly corral livestock in a defined area without tiring. That's their utilitarian purpose and that's what they were bred, created and designed to do. Before posting a comment, think. Try to reason things out. It's muscular dog and it trots...ask yourself why those traits would be intentionally bred into a herding dog required to move livestock ALL DAY LONG. If critical thinking isn't your thing, Google it, or go to the breed websites and read about why this animal does what it does. It's okay not to know something. It's not okay to bask in your ignorance than make uninformed comments online just because you can.

@@allfiner this is not an efficient, economic trot though. your reasoning is fine but the end result should not look like this. See Dr Fischer's work.

The GSD was bred for herding, more specifically tending (aka acting as a living fence, keeping stock in boundaries rather than gathering or moving them), and the flying trot as well as rear angulation was bred in to help the dogs cover the most amount of ground with the least amount of strides possible, saving energy and making for more efficient herding.

He still is considered the best mover of all time, regardless.

In pursuit of the long stride trotting gait seen here.

The hip bones aren't lower, but the croup does have more angulation. It helps the dogs cover more ground with the least amount of strides. More efficient when tending to sheep, which is this breeds original purpose. Older GSDs lacked this and bc of this, couldn't do their work as well as modern day dogs. They were bred for temperment rather than health and structure.