Working line dog movement.

[BlackGSD]

Thought it might be fun for people to show trotting (and stacked) pics of their working line dogs so people can see the difference between them and the other lines.

Siren will go first. She is 9 1/2 months old, and 3/4 DDR/1/2 Czech lines. . (This is a free stack, hence the reason that she is over stretched and her right front looks a little "wonky".)




A couple of "movement" pics. Not the greatest, but...... It IS hard to do this alone, and she rarely trots and rarely has her face off of the ground . Usually she is going full blast, and that is the only time she isn't sniffing or tracking SOMETHING.

[Castlemaid]

Cool idea for a thread!

Of course, no real stacked pics - but here is one of Falkor showing his overall structure quite well, except that his feet are hidden by the snow:

Falkor, at 7 Months:


Like you were saying, hard to get good trotting pictures from the side if you are taking pics on your own - you usually get pics of your dog running after something your threw, or pics of them running back at you!

But here is a favorite of mine. Falkor at 4 Months. Excuse Mr. Filthy! We had Pine Sap, Mud and Sand happening all at the same time:

Graceful and Balanced:

[TRITON]

Few of Harley stacked



Gaiting-she's always had very nice movement I think...


Can see her movement working also Ignore the handlers movement

[DianaM]

Ooooo I like Falkor! I bet he'd look awesome in a full trot. I think Siren would also look very nice if she got her head out of the mud! Harley too, beautiful gait.

Great thread idea.

[SunCzarina]

Siren
*edit* photo bucket is wacked out tonight, will add more when I figured out what the **** I did...

Otto is all DDR and 7 months old so most of my movement pictures of him are goofy.




Morgan is a rescue, she's 7 and believed to be west german working



Luther was also a DDR

[BlackGSD]

Just for grins, this was Siren at 9 weeks.


"Reverse" free stack.

Trotting.


And another trotting one at 12 weeks.



And at 7 1/2 months. (AGAIN with the "tracking" )

[VectorSketcher]

Wow! Siren looks so different from when she was a pup! She is such a beauty!

[Vandal]

A little blurry

[hudak004]

Harley has beauuuutiful structure!!!!!!

[Liesje]

I am no expert, keep that in mind! Kenya is working lines, I believe primarily west German and some east German (pedigree: http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/...ee/401054.html ). Her father was KKL2 and I don't believe her mother was Koered. She has good hips and is a UKC CH. What I like about her movement is that *to me* it looks fluid and balanced. When she moves, it's like her back remains level and she just floats (unlike the video of Arex where you can see his back doing like a rolling motion). She is not cowhocked at all so I love watching her move from the rear. She does not have the reach and the pretty gait of a show dog, but still I feel her reach in front and rear is balanced, and to me that is more important than the amount of reach, b/c if it's unbalanced it looks bad and is unhealthy. From what I understand, her front reach is not so impressive because she has a steeper shoulder, flat wither. Her gait looks effortless though, like she is just floating over the ground and could do it for hours on end without even panting. My favorite things about Kenya are her hips, the absence of cow-hock in the rear, and basically her neck and head from her wither up (I LOVE her ears and ear set). My least favorite things are poor front feet, flat wither, and steep shoulder.

I would love to know what others think.

Somewhat stacked







Movement