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Does your dog have pedigree papers? Morphology is important for show dogs but not for schutzhund. Also is an american or a european type doberman? $600 for a dobie is not much and probably not from a champion bloodline but do you know how many people own dogs and just because they don't care about shows nobody thinks they are valueble but in fact they are better than many champions? So don't give your hopes up
Morphology is unimportant for Schutzhund? I don't think so! The breed standard exists as a blueprint for the ideal animal to fulfill a purpose... in the Doberman's case, it describes proper working structure. How is that unimportant for the working sports? A dog with improper structure will physically break down.

You need to watch your generalizations. "Nobody thinks they [pet dogs, I assume] are valuable"? Really? A lot of people would take exception to this... a lot of people would be insulted by this! And, in what way are non-show dogs BETTER than many champions?

This may be one of the weirder posts I have read today...
 

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thanx, i was told puppy chow and he is uncropped, i have called many many vet clinics and i am being very picky about his ears turns out i will have to drive about 2 hrs to a place i selected it a clinic the the breeders than angiesdobies use. i am changing his food to wellness, i hear its a good brand and yes there is a club near me but the said to wait about 7 months because a puppys mind isnt ready till hes older
Many dogs have an intolerance to certain grains, corn and wheat being probably most common. Some of the typical results of consuming an inappropriate grain are ear infections, itchy paws, other itchies. The first (primary) ingredient of Puppy Chow is corn. Wellness is decent food... get your pup switched promptly!

You might post your location and ask here for recommendations for ear croppers. A lot of vets, even vets who do a lot of ears, do not do particularly good jobs. You will only have this done once, and you will hopefully be living with the results for many, many years... buy a good job and do well with the aftercare... nice ears are worth it!

If you are serious about Schutzhund, get some info now on raising a sport dog. Most folks who intend to do this or similar sports with their pups will raise the pups some differently than pet pups are raised. Look up Ivan Balabanov and Michael Ellis... they both have info out there (videos and such) on raising pups properly. For example, the bite inhibition training you are doing now would probably not be advisable with a sport puppy.
 

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When switching the puppy food, PLEASE take your time, as it's worse to change foods too fast and cause stomach disruption. Start mixing just a little new food with the old, add more little by little and less of the old little by little until the full switch his made.
The pup isn't even seven weeks old now... how used to anything could a pup get in that time? All things considered (Puppy Chow!), if this was my pup I would just ditch the old food and fill up the bowl with new food.

Changing foods is NOT a bad thing! When I still fed kibble, I used to switch between half a dozen foods with no transition period at all. What can happen is that if you only ever feed one food, you can sort of "train" the digestive system to become inflexible. I think this inflexibility is a bad thing, and routinely advise people against feeding the same thing for any length of time. Eating something different every day is normal and natural, and should not cause any kind of disruption... it is eating the same thing every day which is kind of weird, if you think about it.
 

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Hmm, I'm sniffing eau du troll, at this point--correct use of an anglicized word, but misspelled...syntax changes, hot buttons, yep, this one is fishy.
I dunno. Much of the world is different from the U.S., and English as a second language is difficult.

I have re-read this post a lot of times. It is possible that I mis-interpretted some of it.

The morphology part I did not, but might be willing to concede a bit, anyway. This after remembering an article I read some time ago by a very old-time Saluki guy who was one of the last true dogmen. In the article, he talked about many individual animals with glaring conformational faults who nonetheless in many cases would outperform more correct animals. He theorized some about the reasons for this, and what some of the individual faults may have leant to certain aspects of performance. It was a fascinating article, and almost guaranteed to give conformation folks nightmares LOL!

The part about unseen dogs being superior to champion dogs I think I may have misunderstood. If it is true in the part of Southern Europe where he lives that a breeder is willing to sell the best pup in the litter without any obligation to get that pup out and seen, then I am wondering if this is what was meant. In the U.S., at least, such pups tend to come with contractual obligation to show and title them... if such pups end up in European backyards of folks who can afford them but are content to keep them as pets, then what was written could be a valid point, and I misunderstood.
 
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