Trent looks completely normal and gorgeous. He just look like he's stacked three point, whereas GSDs with such sloped rears that are stacked that way just look so much worse. I don't truly expect that people will change that tradition, it was just a bit of a musing of mine, since the three point stack exaggerates the already over-sloped hips.
Oh, absolutely. It's also for that reason that a lot of people focus on how much rear the German Shepherds in the show ring have, but NEVER seem to realize that other breeds (such as Irish Setters) have the same extremes. It's just not as accentuated as much as it is for Shepherds when they are stacked.
On that note, the hips aren't actually sloped
Common misconception/misuse of terminology - the hips themselves are, well, just hips! The incline is in the topline relative to the ground, I don't think the hips themselves can be sloped.
Knox was stacked four point (square whatever) and you can still see his rear is not so extreme. I fully expect him to OFA good or excellent in August as well.
Im going to get a show lead tomorrow and take some better pictures of him stacked properly as well just to show the rear angulation difference.
That picture of him is also a few months old. Maybe two and a half I think.
Funnily enough, Trent does not stack four square (not certain of the correct terminology either, lmao) very comfortably. Both he, Knox, and the GSDs Maliraptor posted have sufficient rear. Trent is capable of being stretched out more than he is in the picture above, but I like Knox and Maliraptor's dogs better, to be honest.
I had a shot of Trent standing four square before, but that's a year and a half old at least and not a very good one at that.
This is Xandra's Roman's sire, Axel, isn't he?
Love all your dogs. Honestly, the perfect amount of rear for me, I don't like dogs that are
lacking in rear angulation, either.