His first family named him "Buddy". Its not that creative but it stuck so thats it. Actually it is odd because I used to hate my Grandmas old dog named "buddy", he was stupit little thing. I used to think, who would name a dog "buddy"... He is about 27' tall and around 115 - 120lbs, I haven't checked in a month er so. In the pics he was about 105 - 115lbs depending on the pic.