Have you ever wondered what is really in a name? I mean what goes into the name giving process? Take the Jersey Cow for instance; it was given its name from the Isle of Jersey, from where it came. The Newfoundland Dog was also given his name from his homeland. In fact even our last names are clues into our ancestral pasts. Names hold the foundational code of pride and purpose. Think about the German Shepherds Dog and its name. The original name was not as so many think the German Shepherd Dog it was the dog of the German Shepherds plural. Thus its name is the German Shepherds Dog.

This dog was given the name of a tough rugged group of individuals. The dog as the men was capable of taking on the weather and land. The dog was Worked to be proven. In most cases today, the dog should be named the "I Sit On My Ass At The Computer All Day German Dog," or the "Sport Field, Ball Crazy German Dog," or the "Fat Bellied Beer Drinkers Talk Board German Dog". In this way the dog bares the name of what it is now bred for and those who are breeding it. You can no more trick Nature than you can con Fate.

We live in a time where soft bellied fools interfere with not only the natural breeding process but the birth itself. They cut the umbilical cord under heat lamps and wipe down the pups. They weigh them and tag them and they are off to the land of useless. The bitch has a purpose as does her duties during the birth.

I am not trying to rock the boat of the doggie people. I am fully intending to sink it. There is nothing I would enjoy more than to save the famous, powerful, faithful German Shepherds Dog. Even the military, a place which should know better has employed these twisted den mothers of weakness in their kennels. We have for so long avoided the truth that we are now too weak to stand up for it. The fear is that we will be called cruel or chauvinist or simply outnumbered by the fools. It is like the McCarthy era of the dog world. No one wants the finger to be pointed at them. Well I suppose you can point that finger here in my direction. After all, if worst comes to worst, your "This Is My Talk Board German Dog" might, just might, get some scrutiny. It is them who can use it; it is you and those like you who fear it.
©Mike McConnery/Baden K-9, 05/20/06

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