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To: brytlea

Goldens seem to be bred, more often than not, for color and big, big size. We had a large male, Prior Lake Jake, when we lived in Minnesota and he was a pretty fare duck dog but was almost too big to get in the boat. At 95 pounds, his leap would almost pitch us into the drink, which is the last place to be on a cold Minnesota duck blind morning. One of my friends nicknamed him "Lard-a**."


58 posted on 07/10/2006 10:04:07 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

95 lbs is probably oversized for a male golden. People DO breed very large ones, but that is not the standard. I don't think you can blame THAT one on show people! My girls run about 50 - 60 lbs. I haven't had a boy in so long, I forget what they weighed at adulthood, but I would guess in the 70 to 80 lb range.
FWIW when I walk my goldens around town, I frequently get stopped by people asking me why they are so small. They are not small, they are within standard. But most of the goldens they have had or seen are larger. I don't get why anyone would want a larger golden, however, people seem to like them.
susie


66 posted on 07/10/2006 10:12:07 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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