Just curious how many ppl have GSDs weighing over 100lbs....
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not me! Too big!
my 5yo male is about 26 1/2" and about 85 lbs.
Good size for a GSD.
100+ is too big in my opinion (and according to the standard as well)
100+ is quite large. My boy is over the standard at exactly 100#..love him to death
My male and both females are one generation off all european blood. they are 84, 70, and 62.My male is 104 lbs - he is European My new little girl is 4.5 months old and already weighing 40 lbs - she was bred in Germany!
A tending dog is a fence with teeth. .
Keep in mind that he never weighed the dog himself. He never went along to the vet for check ups. He had no idea what a scale would say. He just looked at this dog and thought, "He weighs close to 105 lbs.". And the people he passed his opinion on to took it as gospel truth.
I am the one who took Jackson to his check-ups and I knew how much he officially weighed. He fluctuated between 82 and 85 lbs. for all of his adult life.
Yep. The thing I have noticed is that men tend to overestimate weight, and women tend to underestimate. Whenever I get an inquiry about grooming for a large breed, I ask the owner how much their dog weighs. If a man, he will say "About 100 pounds". If a woman, she'll say "About 65" The truth lies somewhere in the middle; I mentally add 15 pounds if I talk to a woman, and subtract 15 if I'm talking to a man...fortunately, I have a scale in my lobby so I can test my own intuitions, and I'm rarely wrong.A lot of people do overestimate weight. More than once we've been out and about with 80lb dogs and had people swear they must be 110, 120, etc... Likewise I've encountered many people who swore their own dog was well over 100, but seeing the dog myself I knew they were overestimating by at least 20lbs.
Most of them would be my guess.And I wonder how many "super sized" GSDs are no where near as heavy as the people think they are.
Sheilah