She looks fine to me---3/4 of a stone is a lot on any dog.

Daft judge I would imagine.

rune

Thanks. Thats what we thought.

I don't think she looks overweight from the photo, but some terriers i see are really thin so maybe hes just used to seeing them. I think (i will double check) she is similar weight and height to her twinny!! I worry that rex is a little over weight as he used to be quite abit lighter when he was younger but he is 8 now and he did used to be really thin. Heres a piccy when hes wet so you can see his shape abit better

Rex is a very similar shape to Tilly (Rex's twinny. Love it! ) so it would be interesting to know his height, weight etc.
I think you're right on him being used to seeing skinnier dogs. He was judging on working as opposed to pet terriers so a smaller, leaner dog would be seen as a better worker I would imagine.

I just checked, he is 18 inches to the shoulder and weighs 15kg in his younger days he weighed 12kg but he is alot more musular now though. So i suppose they are quite similar

Thats good to hear. So sounds like they are very similar build. Tilly was a bit slimmer in her younger days too but she's always been quite stocky, (not fat!) so I reckon she's fine. Would love to see the twinnys side by side. Be like two book ends!

We're going up that way in a couple of weeks!

Ooh are we going that far?

With Parsons and Borders you should be able to span them, if you cant, they are too big.

Certainly doesn't look 3/4 of a stone overweight! You would be getting people accuse you of cruelty if she lost that much weight!

A terrier show we went to once Parker had won best male terrier and it was between him and the best female terrier (Welsh) for best-in-show. The judge gave it to Parker because she said the bitch was a bit overweight. The owner was really offended and stormed off-wouldn't shake hands with me! Funnily enough Parker had just been on a diet to lose a pound or two but your dog doesn't look overweight at all.