The top post on this blog today is the one where I describe the FCI Landseer. In fact, it is breaking the record for a post receiving the most hits in one day. I wondered why. When I consulted Google, “Landseer Newfoundland” was the 46th most searched term! Now, neither of those words is commonly used, so I wondered why someone would be looking for this term.
The answer was interesting, and a good example of what happens when a story like this goes viral.
It turns out that in North Dakota, there is a Landseer Newfoundland named Boomer who stands 36 inches at the shoulder and is 7 feet long. He weighs 180 pounds.
He may be the current record holder for the world’s tallest dog, a record previously held by a Great Dane (German Mastiff) that stood nearly four feet at the shoulder.
Judging from his looks, Boomer is something like what I’d expect from a Landseer Newfoundland. Occasionally, Landseer Newfoundlands are born that don’t develop the typical heavy Newfoundland body type. If you look at an FCI Landseer, you can see that they are more lightly built and less feathered than the typical Newfoundland. This trait sometimes pops up in Landseers in the AKC Newfoundland bloodline.
He looks almost like a giant large Munsterlander.
Maybe he’s actually large Munsterlander that got a touch of the chemical that made these rabbits get huge:
Update: We had a record 2,990 hits on the blog today! And the original FCI Landseer post had 496 hits!
Very BIG Newfoundland also this is really nice post ;)