when you buy a show quality dog what does that mean.
does it mean that the dog will be an easily won champion, a select , a V1 , a SG 46 ?? what?
the overbite was very evident -- but my history dealing with ASL in the very early years , this over bite was not such a rarity, it did crop up , now and again.
Experience also taught me that from those lines there always seemed to be a correction, the lower jaw did catch up and by 8 or 9 months be a proper scissor bite.
I have not seen it in the working lines .
Often the entire head set was a more narrow , longer type .
The pups were called Andy Gumps or Shark jaws,
Another thing I saw was the occassional alarming wry mouth .
I learned that the head is basically in four parts, each of which may grow out of synch with another .
In the overbite the lower jaw falls short of the upper jaw (chinless wonder)
In the undershot the lower jaw is forward of the upper jaw , example the bull breeds which are exaggerated .
It is more likely for a overbite to correct itself than it is for an undershot jaw .
So that takes care of two plates, the upper and lower jaw, but the head also has a left and right side. In the event that either side does not grow in harmony with the other than one side will be longer and the other shorter causing a buckling effect , or looking like he smacked into wall and broke his nose. Depending on the difference in the sides it can be minor or drastic . Generally a minor deviance will correct itself .
I have seem some real bad cases from a breeder that was in my area when I first moved in . (same vets office -- and later ran into some of her dogs in matches and obedience classes).
Usually you will see these as family patterns.
Carmen
Carmspack Working German Shepherd Dogs