Height: male: 23-26 in; female: 21-24 in. Weight: male: 65-80 lbs.; female: 55-70 lbs. Life Span: 10-13 years
The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is a good sized, hearty breed who is devoted to his family and makes a great waterfowl hunter and a trusty guard dog. Considered a duck dog he has an extraordinary ability to remember where each bird falls and then will retrieves them all efficiently. Yellow-amber eyes are a unique characteristic to the Chesapeake Bay. They also can swim for hours in icy water and are die-hard retrievers for birds, sticks, balls, or anything you can throw.