Brian M
Well-known member
Hi
A general question please probaly to all the breeder experts, why and how does the size of our cavaliers vary so much.I believe the breed standard says 8-12 kg for weight but Poppy, apart from being a big girl size wise is also (totaly my fault) quite a bit overweight whilst Daisy size and weight is approx 10 kg ,Rosie being only six months i would think will be around 11 kg when shes finished growing , but when i look at all the other cavs i see there is a huge variation in size generally.Even before Poppy came to us i devoured lots of cavalier books for information and i thought even then that 8-12 kilo represented a 50% increase in the size over the minimum and that it seemed an awful lot, so out of curiosity can somebody please advise .It got me thinking again as last Sunday morning Luke and i had the girls out for a walk on West Kirby front when we stopped to talk to a couple who had SEVEN Japanese Chins out for walkies and in the general conversation he said prior to showing his chins he used to breed and show cavaliers and that of our girls only Daisy would be to the required show standard so that got me wondering again about size variation.
A general question please probaly to all the breeder experts, why and how does the size of our cavaliers vary so much.I believe the breed standard says 8-12 kg for weight but Poppy, apart from being a big girl size wise is also (totaly my fault) quite a bit overweight whilst Daisy size and weight is approx 10 kg ,Rosie being only six months i would think will be around 11 kg when shes finished growing , but when i look at all the other cavs i see there is a huge variation in size generally.Even before Poppy came to us i devoured lots of cavalier books for information and i thought even then that 8-12 kilo represented a 50% increase in the size over the minimum and that it seemed an awful lot, so out of curiosity can somebody please advise .It got me thinking again as last Sunday morning Luke and i had the girls out for a walk on West Kirby front when we stopped to talk to a couple who had SEVEN Japanese Chins out for walkies and in the general conversation he said prior to showing his chins he used to breed and show cavaliers and that of our girls only Daisy would be to the required show standard so that got me wondering again about size variation.