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Originally Posted by Doc

An award winning and recognized influential dog from the past.


A more recent dog from the same lines.

These all look like more recent photos. The older photos of large dogs show much more clean body lines, square with less angulation. The "new" giant dogs look fat, heavy and awkward. Some of the young dogs you posted look like giant Welsh Corgis.

Although there were large (super oversize compared to the standard) dogs in the past, I would be interested to see the working ability of modern "giants".

If everyone has an excuse not to follow the Standard and just do their own thing, why have one??