Good topic... and a toughie too!

 

BEST

Best "

1. Independence and Loyalty

2. Smart and Clever

3  Survival instinct and Endurance

 

Worst"

1. Sensitivity and Shyness

2. Territorial instinct and aggression

3. React too fast....,  able to read your thought and react faster than you can stop/ managed him and become PAIN IN ASS

Hehe,

as I am stucked in Prague,

I can just laugh at Serges PAIN IN THE ASS...

and hope my dog is ok.

hehhee!!

How dare you let a 7 mths pup fools you ?????

It makes me wonder a bit to see that DS is mentioned more than once as one of the buttom 3 sides to the TRD... We should feel blessed that the DS outcome normally is below or around 25% - It can be spotted right away and after surgery the pups can look forward to a long healthy life.

 

On the opposite dogs with severe DS its not discovered till later and the prognose of a good dog life can be very slim as there is no cure as such to make them 100% healthy again.

 

Or dogs with eyeproblems that go blind at a relatively young age ...

 

All in all i think DS is a problem YES!! no doubt about it but not really an issue that ill list as a problem to the breed.

 

 

My opinion on best and worst features:

 

Best:

Adaptability

Size

"Primitive dog" Behavior

 

Worst:

Agression /territorial instinct

Speed

Extremely well developed doglanguage. (Most other breeds are way rougher in their language and may provoke a situation without intending to, and thereby trigger agression)

 

 

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Sorry i misread the starting post ...

 

Yes i can only agree then that if you are able to work on cutting back the number of DS pro litter that would be great - I dunno what other breeders do but i plan to fit in a pasus in my sales contract on eventual DS Ridgeless pups, that they should be neutered/speyed  before they get 1 year old - to avoid .. Ooops litters with DS parents.

 

Regarding the extremely well developed dog language (Is that the right word??) I do not believe we should try to work on killing that in breeding, i also think thats one of their finest assets - Im  merely stating that it may be the reason for their aggression towards other dogs..

 

 

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