Weight Question?
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OurBentley
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Bentley turned 3 months old today (Apr. 16th) and weighed in this evening at 26.5lbs and measured in at 16" at the withers. He's on the BARF diet (always has been, and I mix my own), and is now eating between 1.5 and 2 lbs of food per day. He doesn't look heavy, but when you pick him up, it's like picking up a stone!! Does he seem kinda big for his age?
Upstatestuff
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Seems perfectly normal to me! They all grow at slightly different rates. 
Our vet has told us that we should go by her parents' weight and that she is going to be big for a female(the males are slightly bigger), apparently her paws are huge but that all puppies grow at different rates. Her mom is like 75 and her Dad is 100 so I guess prob like 80 or something. She told us that you really can't compare puppies to see if one will be bigger than the other because one could be 20 lbs at 12 weeks and 85 lbs at adulthood, while another could be 25 lbs at 12 weeks and only be 65 lbs at adulthood. YOu just never know!!! Its like my brother and I! I was always taller because I grew faster, but then I stopped growing around 7th grade and all of a sudden in 9th grade he shot way past me!!
As long as they are not under or over weight, and they look good, all is well
Right now Kit is barely 13 weeks and weighs about ... 22 lbs I would say. But that is with the accuracy of me weighing myself standing on the crappy home scale with her. She definitely looks lean and "feels like a stone," when you pick her up, as you said about Bentley.
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sounds like your bentley is about a week younger than my Kit.
Krysta
Our vet has told us that we should go by her parents' weight and that she is going to be big for a female(the males are slightly bigger), apparently her paws are huge but that all puppies grow at different rates. Her mom is like 75 and her Dad is 100 so I guess prob like 80 or something. She told us that you really can't compare puppies to see if one will be bigger than the other because one could be 20 lbs at 12 weeks and 85 lbs at adulthood, while another could be 25 lbs at 12 weeks and only be 65 lbs at adulthood. YOu just never know!!! Its like my brother and I! I was always taller because I grew faster, but then I stopped growing around 7th grade and all of a sudden in 9th grade he shot way past me!!As long as they are not under or over weight, and they look good, all is well
Right now Kit is barely 13 weeks and weighs about ... 22 lbs I would say. But that is with the accuracy of me weighing myself standing on the crappy home scale with her. She definitely looks lean and "feels like a stone," when you pick her up, as you said about Bentley.
.sounds like your bentley is about a week younger than my Kit.
Krysta
Upstatestuff
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loose skin
Oh yeah and about that loose skin thing everyone has been talkin about. Kit has 3 little "butt rolls," as we call them but only when she stands on her hind legs.. You can kinda move her skin back and forth. I guess thats another way of knowing they are not done growning! If their skin isn't tight yet. Or maybe that has nothing to do with it. I am sure by age 3 they will all have tight skin, or maybe earlier!!!
Oh yeah and about that loose skin thing everyone has been talkin about. Kit has 3 little "butt rolls," as we call them but only when she stands on her hind legs.
. You can kinda move her skin back and forth. I guess thats another way of knowing they are not done growning! If their skin isn't tight yet. Or maybe that has nothing to do with it. I am sure by age 3 they will all have tight skin, or maybe earlier!!!Harley2nva
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Daisy is 13 wks old and weighs 30 lbs.
Daisy-white boxer
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sarah_bailey
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Bailey is just 7 months, we took him vets the other day and he weighs 55 lbs now
otismom&dad
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Our Sadie is almost 7 1/2 months old and she weighed in at 54 lbs the other day. I don't think Otis weighted that much at that age and he's now 75lbs, so It's just a wait and see kind of thing.
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