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Introducing Sumo!


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A few pics from the Adelaide Royal. Unfortunately none of us in the ring as OH had the camera on the wrong setting and they're all super blurry :( But nevermind.

Sumo didn't win anything but he had an absolute ball. I discovered he LOVES kids! He was getting plenty of attention in his allocated booth where we sat all day, but I know not everyone likes to invade your space and ask for a pat, so for some extra socialisation I took him over to the Advance food stand, where people know that they can come up and pat the dogs and talk to the owners. He was like a kid magnet! :D They all flocked to him! At one stage he was sitting there giving kisses to a couple of 4 year old twins, then a just-walking toddler wandered up and he immediately dropped and let her pat his head. It was just beautiful to watch him behaving so gently with the kids. He hasn't been taught that, it's just the breed and his temperament. I was so proud! :)

As for his size! :laugh: It was hilarious, we had some people genuinely interested in Saints chatting to us and asking questions. When they asked what he weighed, I told them 43kg, but he would grow to at least double that. They looked at me totally puzzled and I said "He's not quite six months old yet" well their jaws dropped! They thought he was an adult! To me it's funny because I know the breed so he clearly looks like a puppy, but I guess to other non dog-savvy people he's enormous and therefore must be fully grown. We got a lot of shocked faces when we mentioned his age actually :laugh:

This is Sumo and I on the Advance stand.

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Such a handsome boy & a temp. to match by the sound of things. Beautiful pic's. Love the one of both of you. You should get that one framed or something cassie. He didn't win anything at the show this time but you still got to take home a champion :)

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Hi everyone, thought I'd post an update on my little Sumo man :) We've been out of the show ring for a while due to the silly boy injuring his leg, but thanks to lots of rest and some supplements he is now healthy again :) He has his next couple of shows in two weeks time so looking forward to that. He is 7 months old now and over 60kg.

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I love Sumo's imitation of the bear rugs, he is such a cuddly boy, 60kg's at 7 months, what you expecting at full grown. 110kg?

110kg Saints (fit, healthy specimens, not overweight) do exist, but we're expecting Sumo to be around the 90kg mark once matured. They don't fully mature til around 4 years old.

He is the best cuddler ever :)

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