I believe heads are often larger in Europe than in the US. I was having this conversation with an RR judge just this week and she was remarking that heads have gotten too small and pointy in the US and we need a bit more size and strength of muzzle. If you look at the South African Rescue calendar, the photographs of many of the dogs there have heads that are a lot larger than we are used to seeing. Kelley, do you remember the big brown nosed dog, Merlin, that Concettta Jez showed so successfully several years back? He had a big head. We in the US tend to go for elegance rather than strength and I am not sure that this isn't a mistake as it seems to be leading us toward the whippety type and away from the original type.
Great looking dogs!
