DDR growth chart - Page 3

And just to echo Susie, those 'basic domestic dog' type canines found the world over generally do not grow very BIG ... the average feral 'village dog' is smaller than a standard sized GSD. Even something larger, but less closely related and more 'breed/type specific', like the African Painted Hunting Dogs, are nowhere near as heavy.

Maybe you are thinking more "wild" 'wolf' than 'dog' ? But even the larger strains of wolf, while they may get bigger, overall, than GSDs, do not weigh in at the extreme weights featured here by some posters intent on promoting oversize in W/Ls or any other 'type' of GSD.

[Obviously so they can do Personal Protection, IPO or KNPV - not !] 

41 kg a joke,...realy , the dog is very agile and atletic with long legs and a straight back he can do jumps from the belgium ringsport what 99 percent of today GSD CAN,T DO....( in the old days GSD were much more atletic we all know), but breeders/judges make dramatic choices to change the standard with less atletic and agile dogs , so for me the today GSD standard is a joke
if you look to the today GSD anatomy. IMO.

Ask people outside the GSD world their opinion about the GSD anatomy maybe some people will open their eyes.............

But Susie if you think breeders can replace easy the good properties in their breeding system beacause its the biggest breed in the world you are realy blind . GSD today have too much(health and other) issues
if breeding was so easy.One of the reasons is they make the wrong choices in their breeding standard(SV) and breeding system., they also went a good looking dog and this has a price....

Yes Susie GSD is one  the biggest dog breed in the world  but also one  the biggest commercial  dog breed  in the world  but not only about how they work....

The beauty is for me how the dog works, not how he looks ( with good hips,ellbows, back and clear  stable in his head)

 

Re. the current anatomy of the GSD,  my show line female is an inch oversized, my working line girl is much smaller, and weighs only 55 lbs. She can jump about 6 ft. straight up in the air, and in protection, hits the sleeve like a rocket. When she lunges at the decoy during line bites, I have a MUCH harder time holding her than I do holding my much bigger show line dog. Bigger dogs may be much more intimidating, but as far as agility goes, the smaller dogs are better. That's my opinion, anyway...

Black, re read your post - you wrote "82 kilos", not "82 pounds"; that's what I called a "joke".
41 kilos is pretty common nowadays...

Just for the record: for ME a GSD is breedworthy when the dog works well, looks well, and is healthy.
Neither for breeders nor for owners there is any reason to ask for less -
and in case a breeder is only able to find one single stud out of a special bloodline that is able to work well, and this breeder decides to use this dog for breeding, although out of any reason it doesn't fit the standard, the breeder in question should think about this special bloodline as a whole instead of continuing the drama.
Same with females - in case a breeder does not own females fitting the standard, able to work, he already failed and should think about to either stop breeding or buying new dogs -
sorry, but the GSD is a breed with a breed standard, not any mutt able to work.

Breed standard for what ??? FCI standard ?? Who cares what the breed standard was a century ago ???!!! Everything evolves...

Everything evolves, so does the Breed Standard.

The current version was NOT written a century ego..

And, WHO decides which part of GSD evolution is desired, and which is not? Individual breeders?

Thanks everyone for your response and tips.