What are the limits of a sports-centric selection?
Disciplines such as ring, the mondioring, the IGP or tracking have helped preserve certain qualities of the German Shepherd: commitment, obedience, flair, reactivity. They have their usefulness and their interest, far from us to deny it. But a selection exclusively oriented towards these sports often ends up producing overconditioned dogs, where natural instinct is crushed by training, where aptitude for real life is sometimes secondary.
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Heightened prey instinct, biting that has become a stereotypical reflex, extreme submission, conditioning pushed to the limit... so many traits which, while useful in competition, in no way guarantee a balanced dog in everyday life.
Moreover, it is often confused between the titles won by the team behind the dog and the dog's ability. Simply adding two champions together is not enough. Genetics works in a more subtle way; in our opinion, a more comprehensive approach is required.
We can therefore sometimes favor less titled dogs, but whose instincts we can test for a variety of reasons and whose qualities are concretely verified: in security, in detection, in herds or in real guarding and who remain reliable in the family.
It is these dogs, effective without artifice, that interest us.
