Piper recently turned 1, YAY! However, I get people asking me ALL THE TIME if she's like 4-6 months old. When I tell them that she's actually a year old, they're always like, "But she's so small, is she sick? What's wrong with her?" It's pretty disheartening if I'm being honest. (coupled with the fact that everyone thinks she's a collie, aussi, belgian, etc. and will fiercely argue with me on her breed)
I measured her just now and she's about 21" at the withers, and definitely still growing. I know this is close to breed standard, albeit at the lower end. As far as I know, though, she will continue growing for at least another month or so, and she hasn't gone into heat yet so there's definitely some development left to happen.
I think it's because around here people have enormous shepherds that are well out of the breed standard range. ~90-110lb is common to see.
I guess I'm just wondering if there are others here that get those kinds of questions often about their breed standard/lower end breed standard dogs and how do you respond?
Some pictures: (When she's standing right up against that red bull thing, her withers are right at the middle of the middle shelf piece which is ~21")
Does she look freakishly small to anyone else?
*** Images removed by ADMIN due to size ***
apologies for the bad quality. it's hard to catch her standing still.
I measured her just now and she's about 21" at the withers, and definitely still growing. I know this is close to breed standard, albeit at the lower end. As far as I know, though, she will continue growing for at least another month or so, and she hasn't gone into heat yet so there's definitely some development left to happen.
I think it's because around here people have enormous shepherds that are well out of the breed standard range. ~90-110lb is common to see.
I guess I'm just wondering if there are others here that get those kinds of questions often about their breed standard/lower end breed standard dogs and how do you respond?
Some pictures: (When she's standing right up against that red bull thing, her withers are right at the middle of the middle shelf piece which is ~21")
Does she look freakishly small to anyone else?
*** Images removed by ADMIN due to size ***
apologies for the bad quality. it's hard to catch her standing still.