Roughly 800x600 is good for any forum
Your images in the dog thread came through as the "end-of-post expandable thumbnails", if you click on them when viewing the post they will get larger.
When attaching an image from this:
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you have the option to choose how you want it to appear on the forum

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"inline full size image" will probably give the result you were looking for