The East German Breed Survey

 All Information Supplied by Jona Decker

1st Digit Body Type 2nd Digit Constitutio n 3rd Digit Structure 4th Digit Temperament 5th Digit Sharpness 6th Digit Courage & Hardness 0 Little Resemblance Delicate, Weak Cryptochid, etc. Nervous, Afraid, Very Shy ----- ----- 1 Poor Representative Deficient Sexual Charact- eristics Poor Angulation or Poor Chest Spooky, Timid, Noise Sensitive None None 2 Too Fine Teeth or pigment faulty Faulty proportions Insecure, Fearful at times, possibly shy, sharp Some Some 3 Too Tall Coat faulty Average angulation Reserved, suspicious or aggressive Sufficient Sufficient 4 Sufficient Maturing problems Good angulation Aggressive, sharp, hard, dangerous Good Good 5 Average Ideal Excellent Relaxed, friendly, hard when provoked Very Good Very Good 6 Powerful Coarse, resilient Good build, good chest Relaxed, friendly, hard when provoked ----- ----- 7 Too Short Weak muscles, including ears Long bodied Relaxed, friendly, sensitive ----- ----- 8 Heavy Soft Over - angulated Relaxed, friendly, indifferent, little sharpness ----- ----- 9 Coarse Crippled Excess in any of the above Soft, indifferent, depressed ----- -----

An Example:

A Dog is surveyed and scored as follows: 655645. This roughtly equates to:

 1st Digit--Body Type Powerful

 2nd Digit--Constitution Ideal

 3rd Digit--Structure Excellent

 4th Digit--Temperament & Hardness Relaxed, Friendly, Hard when
                 provoked

 5th Digit--Sharpness Sufficient

 6th Digit--Courage Very Good

In the DDR system, the dog's numeric evaluation is listed alongside his or her name on the pedigree--so down the line it is much easier to get a good picture of each dog's temperament, and the heritability of different temperament components.

While this may not be as descriptive as a full critique, it certainly gives you a good picture of the dog's physical and mental qualities, and this is always useful, particularly when the dog is a few generations removed.

The information on this page is supplied by Jona Decker. She has a site called the Malinut Page - check it out. It has a lot of good information. Jona Deckers Homepage on Malinois - an excellent site.