Oh hmm I did not know this.
I was, ah um, just generally perhaps fudging the average weight so that I could push my most beloved dog on anyone who will listen :D
I know, they are fantastic, and very underrated, even if officially top of the charts for decades. Never get the attention they deserve. You’d think they were rare the way the media avoids ever using them.
But, these people want to RV travel. Small is better, especially when you are older and God forbid have to help the animal in an emergency situation. At 45 I know how hard it can be to help a virtually crippled large dog. How many times I thought this last year how much easier it would be if Tara was a small dog; I could just pick her up, cradle her in my arms and go. And she was a proper-sized GS, not the behemoths people brag about but are oversized.