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Posted on Sunday, January 13 @ 03:47:13 UTC by stephen
During a recent general discussion regarding size we researched the book The German Shepherd Dog in word and picture by von Stephanitz 1925.
Von Stephanitz
“The racial type allows about 24 inches average height for dogs and bitches with about 2 inches allowances either way”
To convert inches to centimetres multiply by 2.540
When you convert inches to centimetres this puts
24 inches at 60.96 centimetres.
26 inches at 66.04 centimetres
This fall in line with our current breed survey requirement of a maximum of 61cm for females and maximum 66cm for males.
However, when the standard was converted from the imperial to metric system, this resulted in a reduction in the limits to a maximum of 65cm for males and 60cm for females, this is a slight deviation from the original ideal.
The issue of size has been with us for a long time and will be with us for many years to come, we must not become too fixated on size and loose sight of the overall quality of the animal. The overall picture should be one of strength and harmony and balance.
Von Stephanitz
“In his general appearance the dog must correspond to the racial type in size, strength and shape. In this respect also it is to be observed whether dogs or bitches show the appropriate hallmarks of their sex which were described in Chapter 3., the more powerful body build, the stronger teeth, the more powerful head and the beginnings of a mane for the dog, and the finer slimmer form for the bitch, the more pronounced these features are, the more favourable will be the verdict as to suitability for breeding.
The racial type allows 24inches average height for dogs and bitches with about 2 inches allowance either way. These dimensions are to be aimed at for all medium sized service races as correct, whether the dogs are used for the flocks or for any other service.
The service dog, like a good cavalry charger, must be indefatigable, enduring and capable of maintaining a persevering, even, quiet, but also a rapid gait, that is to say a trot, and also a gallop further he must be mobile, capable of turning easily, and skilful in overcoming obstacles, whether by jumping or climbing.
For this it is necessary to possess a certain size combined with strength.
Dogs being conspicuously smaller than the average animal, lack this strength when ever they are proportionately built, because they are to light in build; or else they stand ponderous and thickset, but on small legs, in which case they lack endurance and power of movement.
The same is true with animals that are too large.”
The ideal picture of the German Shepherd is one that is noble and majestic in its appearance.
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