Height and weight

[michaelundinaeichhorn]

Originally Posted by massimo

But I'm also interested to know from you and others if it is "less" advisable to allow the average hight of CSW increase or not.
Should breeders tend to select more compact/smaller/wolfish csws?
Should breeders tend to select more tall/elegant/powerful csws?
From your reply it's clear that maybe for people the second is preferrable.

The breed standart says in short terms that the CSW should look like a European wolf. A male European wolf can have a high of over 70 cm. So for me it is elegant/powerful/wolfish.
I don´t mind if a male is small or tall as long as he is of that type. I don´t have to be afraid that the puppies will be too small because I know that even my smallest bitch allways has puppies of good height. Therefor I only look for a male that fits my female. And I wouldn´t take a male with too short legs, that is too heavy build, with an untypical head, untypical movements, a bad back line or a bad character.
The experience in other breeds show that you get problems if you breed for very tall dogs or heavy dogs. I think we don´t need to have a heightlimit as long as we don´t prefer dogs just because they are tall and nothing else.

Ina