Well my Choc lab who is 14 weeks old on friday, weighed in at 14.5kilos last week...

Meet another choc lab puppy this morning who is the same age bar a few days and Minstrel was no word of a lie over TWICE the size of her, the vets said she is doing fine and not overweight, just big, her paws are massive...

Jeanb who has a yellow lab, told me hers is 5.5kg....

IS this ok to have such a fluctuation of weights?

Don't worry about it, like people, some dogs are bigger that others. Weight can vary a lot due to bone and muscle. If the vet says your girl is not overweight and healthy, that is the main thing.

My black lab bitch 12months old is 30 kilos and my 18 month akita bitch is approx 45 kilos

I wouldn't class my lab as big although vet reckoned she should weigh a bit less

12 months and 30 kilos, everyone can stop calling tess fat now have to take her of the diet, thatll please her :) shes 4 and weighs 30 kilos
jack, 10 month sprocker weighs 15 kilos and toby 6 year cavalier between 7 and 8 kilos

i have black lab he weighed 10kg at 8wks, at 6mnths he weighed 27kg, he is big too but the vet is very pleased with his progress, he isnt fat and also has big paws like yours, if the vets ok with him i wouldnt worry they would let you know if he wasnt ok.

yeah I suppose as long as she is healthy and fit, And I am not exactly the tallest of people aswell!!!

Thanks, interesting though the differences in weight...

I wonder if food is part of the reason, ie not amount of food but type of food puppies are feed on, mine is on Eukanuba and sometimes natural organice fresh food....

Toby is on Bakers. :-)

hiya, funny enough i`ve just had mine weighed today shes 12 1/2 weeks old and weighs 11.2 kgs so I was interested to read the different weights. (shes also a lab)

Its a bit like the baby clinic!!!

Hilary

Bradley 6 month old boxer is 23kilos not and stitch of fat on him

my 6 month old rottie is 28kg (over 4stone) the vet says that an ideal weight for her age, cant wait until she stops growing!!

My skinny boney springer weighs 18kg but I cant see how, I have 2 litter brothers (springers,) one weighs 20kg and is like a giant eeyore the other is tiny and weighs 14kg.

6 yr Gsd weighs in at 31.9Kg and my nearly 6 month GSD weighs in at 28.5kg i know that the pup is going to be bigger than the adult by the size of her paws and also she is now 2inches shorter than the adult. Both bitche's

My 6 year old Springer, Bess weighs 16kg and I would say she's ok for her size (she's quite small).

Ok don't laugh...my two 17 week old Bichons weigh in at a huge,gigantic,enormous .....2.5kg and 2.8kg respectively. Size isn't evrything and don'y they knowit.:) At the other end of the scale I also have a petite 3 year old golden lab of 24kg (only I might add after plenty healthy exercise and careful diet!) :D

Bradleys got rolls of skin to grow into has your rottie got the same?

My rottie (Mia) hasnt really got roles of skin anymore she used to have loads looked like she was Anorexic with all the roles of skin, but all of a sudden shes got really big and muscular, overpowers my boyfriend and hes 15stone!!!

i think its just one of those things with rotties i was worried at first thought i had got a bum deal from the breader but shes now six months old and definitely looking like a fully fledge rottie.

how old is your Bradley?

Mprse is 1 next week and weighs a lanky 23kg.

Murphy is almost 10months old and last month weighed 35kgs. He's a bit more now but he is a biiigggg lab!:) He's got skin to grow into still....oh no!
At a dog show a couple of weeks ago, the judge picked up a handful of skin and shook it!....poor Murph. But I can feel his ribs so he's okay - I think!)

TTFN

Ruth

Chance was weighed a few weeks ago at 13 months. He was 31.6kg. He feels a lot heavier when he's sitting on your lap! ;)

Bradley is 6 months and is already very strong. We use a head holter on him when we go out walking so i can get control of him. When he has his collar on he drags me around like a rag doll.
Im not very familiar with rotties what sort of charector traits do they have? All I know is our local kennels will not board Rotties why I don't know

In my opinion rotties are the most wonderful dogs in the world regardless of all the bad press they get about being a “devil dog” Mia my 6 month old hasn’t got a bad bone in her body I think the worst thing she could possibly do is lick you to death, as for character traits, well all I can really say is that they are human but with four legs, I’ve never known a breed of dog that needs so much love and attention, Mia is my hot water bottle on an evening, its sort of become a routine, we both lay on the couch and snuggle up to each other, she has so many characteristics its unbelievable, she has this habit of walking up to you and burping, not very nice but very funny!, she also has to bounce all over the place even when I take her for walks and let her off her lead, she loves all the excitement and if I don’t take her out in a morning for her walk she lays in her basket and sulks, her bottom lip comes out so far it nearly touches the floor.
I was very dubious about getting a rottie especially when I first saw Mia’s parents, her mum was two years old and 10 stone and her dad was 3 years old and 14 stone, so when the vet told me that Mia would average between 11 and 13 stone it came as a bit of a shock but I’d never do without her, she has become my best friend even when she does squash me on the couch!
I cant understand why your local kennels will not board your dog, our local kennel loves Mia to bits and always asks when she’s coming back, maybe your local has that black and white vision of a rottie being nasty, to be honest I’ve met nastier jack russels.

Steph.

Ive only ever seen rotties from a distance never up close and personal. I don't listen to to much press coverage i like to make up my own mind. I do have a rather large fear of gs's to be truthful, but thats because i was attacked as a youngster.
Does Mia sit on your lap? Bradley does this, I think it stems from the summer when we took him out to the pub and he got a little chilly so i would let him curl up on my lap to keep warm. Now he keeps me warm. He is a very cuddly boy who I would never be without. Love him to bits.

Mia sits anywhere she can, when she was younger and we didnt have her outside i would come home from work and find her on the couch, had to wrestle with her to get her off, now shes getting big i think she is incharge, i'm 5.5" and she can put her paws on my shoulders even when i'm wearing heals, its quite scary really, seen as i've been told that she wont stop growing until she's 3. is Bradley a good boxer? i wanted one before i got Mia, the only thing that put me off boxers was the drool factor, does Bradley drool?.
were you badly attacked by this dog when you were younger?, the only thing i've been attacked by is a cat, still cant understand why i've got three of the little rats!!
Mia also has a craving for Macdonalds chips!!

my appolgies for the msg i sent regarding your local kennels not wanting your dog, thought he was a rottie for some reason, cant get brain in gear today, even more confused now that i know hes a boxer, i bet your local kennels only take in little dogs.

there is no way a balanced, correctly built rott should weight anything like that, theyre either grossly oversized---or very very overweight, ---and where excactly do they take a rottie supposedly 14 stone to get weighed. ?????? cant be the vets. as im sure theyd explain something was wrong

I am worried that my labrador is too small and that i have bought him from a bum dealer and that he is crossed with somthing smaller as he is 20wks and weighs only 10kg

Rachnew are you sure he is only 10kgs,is this the weight from the vets scales or your own as they can vary alot with vets being more accurate??When i got my gsd pup he was 10 weeks old to the day and i was really worried when he only weighed in at 6.5kg,he was really ribby too with not much of an appetite but now im pleased to say he weighs a healthy 18kgs at 17 weeks.If he was advertised as pedigree and you have good reason to doubt it then go back to his breeder and ask them about his parents/pedigree if you didnt see them, and if he is registered with the kennel club then contact them with your concerns giving details of his parents if known.But check all possibilitys first as he could just come from very small lines.

my rottie troy is 6mths and weighs29kg

My Malamute is 20 months old and weighs nearly 8 stone :D :D

I am glad some-one else has a larger dog, my DDB x Bloodhound is one in a couple of weeks and weighs in at just over eight stone (52 kgs), you certainly know about it when he decides to sit on your knee!! :D :D

8 stone blimey I can remember when I weighed 8 stone.

So can I remember when *I* weighed 8 stone...think it was July 1969 ;)

(Smirks smugly ;) )
:)

Skinny bints can leave this thread right now!! Not looking at ANYONE in particular JG :D

I would look daft being 8 stone ..I am nearly 6' tall (thats my excuse and I am sticking to it)

How daft do you think that my 20 year old son looks at 6' 3" and only 9 stone :D

Daisy

My oldest son is the same :D

The size I am now it must of been my birth weight (poor mum):p

Yep - me too :) - but only ever weighed it once :D

Daisy

I can too.I think I had bunches and a school tie then.<sigh>

I had huge problems putting weight on when i was younger. When i was 20 i weighed 7 stone so i covered up because i was so skinny. Now i cover myself up, so i don't cause offence to the passing public as im built for comfort not for speed.

Even after having two kids I still only weighed six and a half stones. My doctor told me not to worry, just wait 'til I turned 40 and be back looking for a good diet. :) He was so right :o Last time I checked I was 9 and a half :D (don't want to look)

Emma, when I was 20 I weighed a whopping 6 stone 7 lbs and I'm 5ft. 7. I ate 3 meals a day, a small breakfast, a 3 course meal at lunchtime and then my mum wd. do my tea for me. Now my mum is one of these people who doesn't think a meal is a meal unless the plate is fully covered and it's about 2 foot high!! I'm now 32 and weigh just over nine and a half stone.

My partners father is a chef and my partner runs an Italian restaurant and he's Spanish so you can imagine the food culture in my house. We go from one meal to another, we are constantly eating ive had to learn to do things with my feet as my hands are constantly holding food (or wine). I love it:p

The DDB dog puppy is 6 month and is about 7 stone plus, Britney is just over 12 month and is around the 9 1/2 stone mark, P.J. the newfoundland dog is off the the scales but last time we could get him weighed he was over 12 stone they can all knock us off our feet, P.J. sticks his head over the 5 foot fence at the bottom of the garden,the farmer alway's say's the same thing "would not have to feed that B****R, he used to be a small fluffy teddy bear but now he is a large grizzly, but has a beautifull nature and really has no intention of knocking you flying

my dog is just 3 kg! [jrt @ 13 weeks old]

Jestony, thanks for your reply.I had him weighed at the vets when i went for his worming tabs. It was the vet who originally put doubt in my mind if he was a pedigree of full lab as he has prominent white mark on head. Not KC reg, spoke to breeders who asure me he is, but i have my doubts. i dont love him any less just that i think i have been taken for a fool!!