The standards set the minimum limits for the dogs height,being this size measured at the shoulders. Nothing is easier to decide upon. How about the average size, which without any shade of doubt satisfies all the criteria? How about at 69,70, 71 cms. height? They fulfill all the criteria. Weight. Most of the time It is more humorous than important. Every time I ask a breeder what the weight of his dog is, most of the time I'm told an idealized weight and not an actual one. I've even heard responses thatsome times exceeded more than 10 kilos the real weight of the dog. Recently, a breeder brought a female to my house to mate and saidthat it weighed 75 kilos and, after some consideration we placed her in a box and we weighed her on my scale. Result: 56,8 kilos. It is predictable that he argued that myscale was wrong. I asked him how much he weighed, to which he replied 93, 94 kilos. We then weighed the breeder and the result was 98 kilos. Since then he has decided to go on a diet and it improve his dogs feed in order to achieve the desired weight. How about females weighing around of 52 kilos and males around of 58 kilos? They will be big enough to satisfy our ego for a strong and huge dog. Not to mention that some could be as we human beings are, some with tendencies to be lean and others to be fat. My standard says that according to my height, I would have to weigh 90 kilos. I weigh 120. There are fat people and there are lean people. We speak here of the normal weight. The farmers of old time, who lived in mountainous farms, which produced milk and therefore they did not need to move cattle to long distances, had larger, heavier Filas. UNFORTUNATELY, THE FATTER THE DOG THE LESSER IT EXERCISES. When they raised cattle for slaughter, which needed to travel great lengths, it was noticedthat their dogs were leaner and more muscular. Apt to cover great distances and to fight. QUERO DE SÀO JOSE DA LAPA AKA REDCAPO'S LEO