Measurements

 Last night I was chatting to Sam who has Marley about the importance of size and how the dogs are measured, anyway, I remembered this video that Ian took at the Midland Regional. We don't all have expensive measuring tools, but Steve had made me one years ago when I had my Louis paranoia! I needed Louis to grow, I need Meerah to slowdown. Anyway, in the video you can see the judge measuring Beti's height at the wither, which was 59cms, and her depth of chest in correspondence to her overall height. The length of the foreleg should be greater than the depth of chest. He described Beti as over medium size, medium strong. Bitches should be 55 - 60cms with a leeway of a cm either side permitted. The ideal size for a female is 57.5cms - hence Beti is over medium size, but correctly medium strong! Hope that makes sense!