If the Standard is so dang important and powerful, why in hades are we in the dam mess we are today? If that is what the Standard produces - something is bad wrong.
It's hard to say the breeder is only a good if they breed to the Standard and then say the Standard doesn't matter when it comes to such and such for the German shepherd. I have seen many dogs in AKC events that were way bigger than standard. For example, a 27" bitch ended up just over 23" and placed very highly.
A balanced German shepherd can come in many different sizes and not always fall within the Standard. So if a breeder chooses to call their German shepherds "old-fashion" because at some point in the history of the dog, there were many German shepherds that were over the standard, why discard the breeder and the dogs? The breeder never says that her dogs are bred to the standard so the breeder is not lying but actually being truthful. But because the truth does not conform to the Standard - the dogs and breeder are a bad representation of the breed.
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