Here you have two examples:
FIRST (the photo is not perfect because it is also almost a puppy
but at the moment I have no time to look for better one - anyway it is visible what I mean
:
Here you can see the right (show) position of the legs & the right (standard) angulation. As written in the standard: "An imaginary vertical line drawn from the point of the ischium, would run midway through the hock joint." )
SECOND:
Here you have also the case that the line comming from the ischum goes through the hock joint BUT the legs are not vertical to the ground. WHY? Because of bad angulation - if you would move the legs to the "show possion" you will have to move them very far to the back. What you will get would be an angulation of a German Shepherd Dog. Really bad angulation of a Wolfdog.
Simply said: if the legs of a dog are standing so that the line comming from the ischum goes through the hock joint BUT the legs are NOT vertical to the ground it means only one:
the angulation is wrong.
Now all people will for sure check their dogs
- but the true is pretty sad: really only few Wolfdogs have PERFECT angulation. Most of CzWs are a little bit overangulated - it is not a huge problem if the breeders will make the proper selection. But SAD is that even the extremly overangulated dogs also never get worser notes on the bonitations, dog shows, aso...(In only few cases I saw that a judge gave J5 on the bonitation or worser note on the dogs show. In the most cases the dogs was judges as perfect even if it was angulation like a RABBIT
). Really: almost nobody cares (nobody knows?) about the real angulation of the dogs... And it is the reason for pretty bad situation in this area. It is really worth to start to select it because it have huge influence on the movement (only dog with typical angulation moves like typical CzW). But also the endurance of our dogs depend on it.