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langhaar · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:33 am Post subject:

Have seen old postcards too of tri Gordon's, as for the ones I've seen trialling they were easier to watch on heather.

It's now getting to be a serious problem in Longhairs and it's time the country where it's happening stops burying it's head in the sand and starts to do something about it.

This is why my days of breeding German bloodline GLP's are numbered. Good longhairs will be bred to mediocre ones and the surplus sold as pets, as per norm in the UK. I don't want to see this happen so I'd rather stop now, this breed deserves more. Years of German "engineering " and bloody good dogs will be lost, but who cares in the UK ?

Ghilliegumdrop · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:58 am Post subject:

Isn't it the same in every breed where the dogs are taken to other countries Question

They are then changed to suit the importers idea of what they should be and not the original Evil or Very Mad

There is a tri-colour Gordon, which is almost white, in Malcolm Willis's book Genetics for Dog Breeders. However these people were basing the markings on the black and tan [think I have said that before] Rolling Eyes

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Mike · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:26 am Post subject:

guy · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:45 am Post subject:

langhaar · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:05 am Post subject:

A van der Sluis · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

Why change a breed into some dog you want for your hunting.

Whynot choose the breed who is developed for that kind of hunt you have.

We have to stick by FCI standard. My GLP's are looking like GLP I found in old books. I am talking about the year 1900.
So no more breeding with wrong colours and dog's who are not FCI standard.
Also test your dog for the hunting quality's they should have like the first GLP.
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langhaar · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:37 am Post subject:

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I think you'll find the ground's a bit stony here in the UK Annie, didn't you know we English know everything ! Laughing

A van der Sluis · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject:

Some times I think , Brenda you know everything. But trust me I think I know a little bit more about bloodlines and pedigrees. Wink

Here Puck's lookalike in 1959.
No this is Halla Fortuna.

langhaar · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject:

No my friend , I don't know everything !, who does ? but what I am willing to do is learn from continental breeders who have proved they are breeding to FCI standards and do so by bringing their stock to be assessed over here.

Ghilliegumdrop · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject:

I don't follow you Mike.......if we, in the UK and elsewhere,have brought over continental breeds because we like them, what then is the point of changing them into something different Question

The Brittany was developed in France for french hunters and, presumably, the people who first imported them liked what they saw in France, so why change the breed [given that the majority of breeds, including humans, evolve over the years anyway] Question

Personaly I don't see the logic...but then, I'm not a logical person anyway Twisted Evil

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Ghillie [the Gumdrop] and Merlin [the Demon from Hell] not forgetting Hovis the cat and Mike, the other half [although I'm not sure what the other half is]