On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:06:21 -0600, Kathleen
> wrote:

>pure kona wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:19:40 -0600, Kathleen
>> > wrote:
>> e photos!! We must have gigantica BC. Mollie is huge but
>> just as sweet as your dogs look. Love BCs.
>
>Scully is 30 pounds, Zane is 40. When we first started playing flyball
>almost 7 years ago Scully was one of the smallest BCs we saw. But
>because small dogs bring lower jump heights there has been a strong bias
>towards very petite females. These days it's not uncommon to see 25,
>even 22 pound females.
>
>The need for fast height dogs was also the driving force behind the
>first generations of purpose-bred sport crosses. The border-jack was an
>attempt to transplant a border collie's intelligence and drive into a
>jack russell's body.

Kathleen, did you mean that they are breeding down the size of BCs?
Ours must weigh close to 85 pounds. Too big to pick up on our scale
today. But when we got her I read everything on BCs and remembered
that one book said they have a real range of size and thee is no
standard, according to the AKC- I think, for a BC. But every BC I see
now, seems to be oh so petite and that is why I call ours a gigantica.
Lovable and wonderful and in a big portion.

Thanks.

aloha,
Cea