Banner, the young male Newfoundland is 17 weeks in the early series, and is also shown a year later once he's larger than Anchor, our 9 1/2 year Leonberger. Anchor is a small female. The location is the Cascades trail of Ohiopyle, in southern Pennsylvania.
Neither Banner, the Newfoundland, nor Anchor, the Leonberger, are large for breed standard.
Banner, at age 29 months, is now 130 pounds but is quite fit because of the water and draft work he trains in. Banner's littermate Manny, is 5" taller than Banner, and is a full 30 ponds heavier. Manny and Banner are contrasted below, in baby and adolescent images.
Anchor, 108 pounds, is simply small for Leonberger standard. Anchor has a congenital benign tumor within the lumbar spinal cord. The tumor is known as hemangioma, and it was resected by a Purdue neurosurgeon in 2016, when Anchor was 6 years old. The tumor probably played some role in determining Anchor's small stature, as she's had neurologic deficits since birth. Anchor is contrasted to her littermate brother, the Late Aslan von Alpensee, when both dogs were 7 years of age. Aslan was a tall dog. Aslan is world famous for, literally, thousands of hours of in-hospital bedside therapy work. Aslan's impact on the lives of the sick was hard to measure.
