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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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To: brytlea
Friend of ours has a Golden that is not fully grown yet, but he's going to be one of those 90-pounders.

He's a young adolescent, still at the all elbows and @$$ stage - and watching him and Shelley play is hysterical! He's probably faster in a straightaway sprint, and he can muscle her around . . . but he can't catch her because she has figured out that a quick change of direction means that he spends 20 feet or so with pinwheeling legs trying to turn! When she leaps over his back and runs off in the opposite direction, he gets this look on his face like "How did she DO that?" Then she runs back and yells, "TAG! You're it!" When they're both exhausted they flop down and nuzzle each other -- it's totally cute.

70 posted on 07/10/2006 10:17:12 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: brytlea
Jake's sire was a big male with a slight tendency toward a curly coat on his back. The female was more standard size. We picked Jake because he had the biggest head in the litter...
At one point, his weight was over 110 but we trimmed this off by reducing his ration and a daily swim in Prior Lake.
74 posted on 07/10/2006 10:19:00 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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