GSD best of breed debacle

[MikePal]

After watching the video...they surely need to do something..

THE KENNEL Club was forced to swing into damage-limiting action after the German Shepherd best of breed at Crufts attracted widespread criticism.

KC footage of Stuart and Susan Cuthbert’s Cruaghaire Catoria (Tori) moving was edited out of Saturday evening’s Channel 4 coverage of the group; every other breed was televised. But footage could be found easily on the internet, and it drew scathing and dismayed comments.
And 24 hours later the matter was discussed at length by the Channel 4 panel – KC veterinary advisor Nick Blayney, KC secretary Caroline Kisko and Crufts commentator Jessica Holm – with judge David Hall taking the brunt of the criticism.
Mrs Kisko said judges who were not doing what the KC asked would have to be ‘sorted out’, and that she hoped next year’s GSD judge would be ‘doing a very different job’.
Mr Blayney said he was ‘quite frankly appalled that a dog like that should be put up as a good specimen of the breed’, and that Mr Hall had ‘widely disregarded’ Breed Watch advice to judges on the GSD.

http://www.dogworld.co.uk/product.php/154591/

I should hope so....

“The KC Charitable Trust has recently funded a study by the University of Surrey looking into the conformation and movement of German Shepherds, as part of our commitment to improving the health of this breed.”

[MikePal]

Some further information on the controversy...

Commentator Jessica Holm said: 'When you see [a dog] come into the ring that is so hyperactive the judge couldn't get a hand on the dog, was being handled as such that it could not move properly even if it was capable of doing so, the performance it was put in gave us all concern.


'It did not look like a healthy free-moving dog.'

Clare Balding remarked that she thought Catoria looked lame, and vet Nick Blayney said: 'I was quite frankly appalled that a dog like that could be put up as a good specimen of the breed.
'I'm quite disheartened as there's been a huge amount of work going on in the background to try and stop this very event, and somehow this has slipped through.'

He went on to say that the Kennel Club judges had ignored veterinary guidelines known as Breedwatch to prevent inbreeding from being prevalent at the competition.

He said: 'Everything that's wrong with that dog is recognised in Breedwatch as something we should be steering against.'

Secretary of the Kennel Club Caroline Kisko said the judging had worried the club just as much as it had worried everyone else.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...est-breed.html

[Hunter John]

Doesn't look right does it.?

[Ugo]

That GSD is a mess! That said, it is but one of the breeds that have been bastardized.
"SHOW me the money!"

[Mount Sweetness]

Poor thing

[MikePal]

Tell you the truth...couldn't see the difference between the two finalists....both looked crippled to me.

[Cass]

How that dog can even walk is baffling. Poor thing. GSDs are one of my favorite breeds, I've always wanted one. But certainly not a show one, they're deformed.

[bardern]

idiots all. bulldogs, pugs, cocker spaniels, GSD, irish setters, golden retrievers, standard poodles. the list goes on of breeds ruined in the ring.

[bellerivercrossbowhunter]

Cali says "what the?"

[terrym]

I have actually seen quite a few GSD that have those crazy looking hips. I think that breed is probably in trouble. Hopefully they reverse the trend.