Originally posted by Smilla
That Whippet in the picture above is just gorgeous, for example, but it's back looks a little sloped to me. Do they have the same issues as GSDs?
As far as I know whippets and greyhounds are naturally built with the sloping hindquarters, the GSD slope is different.. I'm not sure how to describe but in some of the AKC shepherds I've seen, it looks like their butts/back legs are dragging the ground, when they walk it just looks really odd and unnatural. I haven't personally researched any particular problems with greyhounds/whippets but I have never really heard much about health issues with them in the way I have about some breeds.

I agree the conversation got quite a ways off topic. I know for myself, some of the things I've said I have wanted to say for awhile now and just never got up the nerve to before now.

In my brief time in the dog show world, the people were just as varied as in any other organization. You had your haughty, snooty, better-than-thou types and the down-to-earth true dog lover types. I saw some treat their dogs like objects and others who had all their dogs in the house with them sleeping all over their furniture because they were family members. I knew some that had no qualms about inbreeding if it would produce a winning dog in the ring and others who were as horrified at that as I would be.