Size of GSD Pups - Page 2

I will search for the links and post them, hopefully link mentions the author of the chart

http://www.german-shepherd-lore.com/german-shepherd-growth-chart.html

This link says it is FCI chart

http://www.total-german-shepherd.com/GermanShepherdGrowthChart.html

Hhhmmmm... both pages claim their chart has FCI origins;  both issue from America as far as I can tell, so there's a possibilty of what the AKC Standard

dictates having crept in somewhere;  but both pages also point out these are only recommended averages and not to get too tied up about them;  and the

Comments at the end of both pages show the very real, and very large, variation in posters' actual dogs.

Personally I was unaware the FCI had ever issued such a chart.  The FCI website I always find pretty inpenaterable (sp?) so I have not bothered to

visit it to look for  a chart.  SV seems to have avoided putting one out, like the Standards, weight seems to be such a vexed issue nobody wants

to be hard and fast about it !

This is how I got to the figure I gave Sunsilver  (have not weighed EVERY dog I've ever been around, but many have had weights noted because its

been measured at the Vet  pre surgery etc):

 

Dogs wholly owned by me:  1   Vida  GSL b.  Medium size & strength, always reckoned to be right on the UK & German Standards,  height  56 cm.

She was always 27-28 kilos all her adult life'  I got to know her at 7 months but I don't recall or never knew what weight she was then.

2   Taz  GSL m.   Medium strength, sl.oversized at  66.5 cm.   Weight aged 11yrs @37 kilos;  heaviest he's been, in his prime,  39 kg.  Again, aquired

at 17 months so not aware how much he weighed at 7 months old,

 

Dogs in my mentors kennel - where both of mine were bred - all GSL based ;  all similar sorts of weights, as far as I ever knew, certainly nothing hugely

oversize.

 

Dogs belonging to my ex-employer:  much more varied, both in origins and sizes.  Biggest dogs there were:  1  male neuter home-bred, English based on

German lines around 3 - 4 generations back in papers,  weighed aged c.8 years for overseas transport,  44 kilos.

The 'Shiloh' -Saxon-  who was about 75 cm tall,  but even he only weighed around  42 kilos dripping wet (and neutered).

A home bred longcoat who was a very big GSD all over, stood about 68 cm, but  he  weighed only 43 k, I think.

Further example:  3 Puppies aged around 6 months, 1/2 siblings to longcoat above, also weighed for overseas transport,  around  39 - 41 kilos each  (can't

be more specific, thats from memory and was about seven years ago).  They would appear to be heavier than average for the kennel, but they were pretty chunky pups;

and we had fattened them up a bit to help them cope with the journey !  Mum was one of the home-bred lot so quite a large bitch, sire was a GSL from another breeder.

 

All these dogs were well-fed and in good condition.  Though some 'pet' people might say they are 'too thin' they were actually - as far as me and Vets were concerned - a

healthy weight,  good muscle tone, ribs just covered, etc.

Here's a shot of him standing You can see how very straight he is in the rear! His name is Owen. That's a Corgi he's playing with.