Weight Up-Date vol.2

[Kyoko]

Looks like we lost the weight up-date discussion some how.
I enjoyed checking into it every now and then, so I decided to make a vol. 2.
Charlie was 13.7lb @ 10 1/2 wks, 19.7lb @ 15wks, 22.3 lb @ 16 wks, 30lb @ 23 wks, and now 35lb @ 27 wks.

[Jarka, Monty & Auggie]

It's hard to say. My Auggie was 21.5 at 12 weeks, but he is very lean. My older one was 18.5 lbs at 12 weeks and is now 90 lbs at 3 years. I don't think Auggie will ever be 90 lbs. Just depends on the body build. And if does get big, there's all the more to love on. :-)

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

8.5 weeks, 3.5 pounds  (Kona was the runt of the litter of 10.  All of his siblings were 6 to 7 pounds at 8 weeks)

3 months, 9 pounds

4 months, 15 pounds

5 months, 19 pounds, 15 inches tall at the whithers

6 months, 19 pounds, 15 inches tall

6.5 months, 22 pounds

 

I'm anxious to see where he will max out.  He stayed the same for over 2 months!  Then a little spurt in the last few weeks.  Vet predicts 30 pounds max.  Parents:  Mother is 40 pound F1B GD.  Father is 18 pound multi-gen ALD

 

 

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

Kona at 6.5 month and a little over 15 inches tall.  I'm guessing he'll end up about 17 to 18 inches tall, so he'll be a knee high dog rather than hip high like Dash! 

[Jennifer and Luci]

Luci is 33lbs at just 2.5 years, perfect size for us.

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

Look at that adorable smile!!!

[Jessica and Ava]

Ava is 35 lbs and 22 in at 20 weeks old.  Any predictions as to how big she will get?

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

There are a couple of different rules of thumb to go by.  You can either take her weight at 4 months, then double it and then add 5 to 10 pounds.  Or, take her weight at 6 months and view it as 2/3 of her final weight.  For Kona, he was 15 pounds at 4 months.  That would make him be between 35 to 40 pounds at adult size.  Or if I go by the 6 months rule, he was 19.5 pounds.  So by that rule of thumb he'll end up being 19.5 + 9.75 pounds, or about 29.25 pounds at full adult. 

I suspect that Kona is going to be closer to the small end of things, so the second rule of thumb seems to be coming true for him.  Maybe you use the second rule of thumb if your puppy had a mini for at least one of its parents, and you use the 1st rule of thumb if your puppy is from standard parents.

 

[Stephanie Neufeld]

Our "medium sized" labradoodle, Sadie, was:

9lbs @ 9 weeks

12lbs @ 12 weeks

15lbs @ 14 weeks

Our breeder said she should be between 25 and 35 pounds as an adult because the mom dog was 25 and the dad was 35, but by how fast she is growing now it looks like she might be bigger!!  My husband is happy as he always wanted a bigger dog (full size labradoodle), where I wanted a mini labradoodle, so the medium was our compromise, haha, but it looks like she might be on the larger side now!

[Jules and Zoey]

Zoey is 6 months old today! She weighs 33.8lbs on the vet scale today. I haven't seen any slowing down yet, hoping she's start to slow down soon actually!

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

Kona was 7 months old yesterday and weighed 22.8 pounds and 16.5 inches tall at the whithers.  So I think he's going to max out at 30.  Perfect for my little house without being too small that I worry about him being frail. 

[Juliana & Hadley]

Hadley is supposed to be around 40 lbs. Her mother was an F1 Goldendoodle- 35 lbs and her father was a small standard poodle 32 lbs. I have used puppychart.com with each weight for her estimated adult weight, so that will be listed as well. PCE= Puppy chart estimate.

9 weeks   11.4 lbs PCE 38.4 lbs

13 weeks 18.3 lbs PCE 40.4 lbs

14 weeks 19.4 lbs PCE 39.1 lbs

15 weeks 20.8 lbs PCE 39.5 lbs

16 weeks 22.2 lbs PCE 39.0 lbs

17 weeks 23.4 lbs PCE 39.1 lbs

18 weeks 25.2 lbs PCE 40.1 lbs

19 weeks 26.4 lbs PCE 40.0 lbs

20 weeks 28.4 lbs PCE 41.5 lbs (growth spurt, she had been up at night wanting to eat)

21 weeks 29.2 lbs PCE 40.7 lbs

She is now almost 22 weeks. The vet seems to think she will be bigger, but maybe she didn't realize that she was supposed to be a medium.  In July, she said come back in September to have Miss Hadley weighed because she would likely be more than 50 lbs by then and need a different dose of her heart worm pill. She was 22.2 lbs then. I am not sure why she thought Hadley would gain almost 30 lbs in 2 months. I said well I hope not, the breeder figured she'd be around 40 lbs full grown. She looked at me like I had 5 heads?? It appears that she is on track with what the breeder and Puppy Chart says. The double your 16 week weight would put her around 44 lbs. The breeder figured she wouldn't hit 40. I love Hadley's size now. We took her on vacation with us, she just sat on the front bench seat between my husband and I. She travelled a lot easier than the kids!

Here she is on a boat ride, with my 6 year old son. 

[Gwyndolyn Morasko]

Hadley and your son are adorable.  

My vet also looks at me like I have 5 heads when I told her that I didn't think Kona would get much bigger than 26 or 27 pounds.  She is convinced he will be a 40 pound dog.  Well....He will be 11 months old on Friday, and he bounces back and forth between 23.5 and 25 pounds for the past 5 months depending on his exercise level.  My small medium has decided to be a large mini and I'm fine with that! I adopted a little scruffy white goldendoodle a month ago and she was exactly Kona's weight.  Since then, Kona lost a pound from all of the running and wrestlng, and Maggie has gained 3 pounds from having a loving family that gives her food and hugs!  I think she'll max out at about 30 to 32 pounds.  So I'll have a large mini and a small medium.  

I think vets aren't used to estimating doodle weights.  Especially those with mini's in their background.  They tend to quit growing much younger than your typical lab or Golden, and that's what they are used to.