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To: HairOfTheDog
Wow! I don't know any field dogs around here anywhere near 100 pounds. I bet it's the summer heat in Georgia that keeps 'em small and skinny.

Tori is probably at the small end of the scale - she's about 1/2 inch taller than Shelley but MUCH longer in the back and about 10-12 pounds heavier (Shelley looks chunkier because her back is almost six inches shorter than Tori's - we measured) - but around here our field trial bitches tend to be about 55-60 pounds and the boys around 75-80. But of course they are very thin, they are kept lean on purpose, on a lot of them the ribs are visible. 90 pounds is considered a way big dog -- one of the guys in the club wound up with one, good old Ranger, who is a sweet dog but TOO BIG.

180 posted on 07/10/2006 6:36:09 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: AnAmericanMother

My friend's field chocolate next to my black Logan, who was an inch taller than the standard, BTW.

They liked him that big up here. I've seen a lot of them.

181 posted on 07/10/2006 6:53:56 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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