Doberman puppy owners - track your weight gain here

[Marko1962]

Ozzys weigh in

DOB 9th July 2011
7 weeks - 13 lbs/5.9 kg & 12 inches to top of withers
8 weeks - 15.2 Ibs/6.9 kg & 12.5 inches - Ozzy started with squirty diarrhea
9 weeks - 17.6 Ibs/8 kg & 14 inches - Diarrhea much better
10 weeks - 22.4 Ibs/10.18 kg & 15.25 inches - Nice n firm now
11 weeks - 26 lbs/11.8 kg & 16.75 inches
12 weeks - 31.6 Ibs/14.3 kg & 17.75 inches - recently eaten so knock a pound or so off for a more realistic weigh-in.. (2 months & 3 weeks in old money)
13 weeks - 34 Ibs/15.45 kg & 19 inches
14 weeks - 38 Ibs/17.27 kg & 20.25 inches
15 weeks - 44 Ibs/20 kg & 21 inches - Really packing the weight on now...
16 weeks - 50.3 Ibs/22.9 kg & 21.75 inches (3 months 2.5 weeks)
17 weeks - 55 Ibs/25 kg & 22.25 inches - weighed on scales at local Jollys (pet shop)
4 Calender month milestone (17wks 4days) - 57.4 Ibs/26 kg & 23 inches
18 weeks - 60 Ibs/27.27kg & 23 inches
19 weeks - 64.4 Ibs/29.27 kg & 23.5 inches
20 weeks - 70 Ibs/31.82 kg & 24.25 inches
21 weeks - 75 Ibs/34 kg & 25 inches - weighed on scales at local Jollys (pet shop) & my scales and both agree.
5 Calender months 1 day (22 weeks) - 77.6 Ibs/35 Kg & 25.5 inches - Slowing down?
23 weeks - 80 Ibs/36.3 Kg & 26 inches - down from 5 Ibs a week to 2.5 Ibs, definitely slowing down at last...
24 weeks - 84.8 Ibs/ 38.55 Kg & 26.25 inches - oh well back to the 5 Ibs a week weight gain...
25 weeks - 85.8 Ibs / 39 kg & 26.5 inches - he gained just 1 pound this week, is this the real slowdown? time will tell...
6 Calender months (26 weeks) - 91 Ibs/41.5 Kg & 26.75 inches - Hmmph he was just kidding with his 1 pound gain last week, when will it stop...
27 weeks - 96.8 Ibs/44 Kg & 27 inches - I give up wondering when he will slow down, looks like I've got a small donkey on my hands...
28 weeks - 98.4 Ibs/44.7 kg & 27.5 inches - Less than 2 pounds , first time I weighed him I got 103 Ibs so a re-weighin was called for
29 weeks - 100.4 Ibs/45.6 kg & 28 inches - He's still growing and getting too heavy to lift and weigh , doing my back in...
30 weeks - 103.4 Ibs/47 kg & 28.25 inches - Make it stop he has recently eaten so in reality he's only put a pound or two on...
7 Calender months (31w) - 105 Ibs/47.7 kg & 28.5 inches - Getting too heavy to lift now so going to monthly weigh-ins.
7 Months 2 weeks (33w) - 110 Ibs/50 kg & 28.75 inches - Impromptu weigh-in at pet shop.
8 Months (35w) - 110 Ibs/50 kg & 29 inches - Wow a weight plateau
8 Months 2 weeks (37w) - 111.4 Ibs/50.6 Kg & 29 inches - Slowing right down
9 Months (39w) -113.8 Ibs/51.7 Kg & 29 inches - Still putting a little weight on but not growing vertically
10 Months (42w) -115 Ibs/52.3 Kg & 29 inches - Just 1Ib

I have cropped and docked Ozzy (digitally only), initially he had a short crop but after some input from Zoe I came up with a medium crop, suits him better I think lol

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Disclaimer - A squirmy pup does not make for an accurate measure, take height as a rough guide. [/quote]

 

[Marinegeekswife]

Ha ha! Nice job with the photo editing. You can only barely tell what you did as far as seaming.

 

[JanS]

Oh wow, I guess that was a good job - I had to go back and see what Jess was talking about. LOL He's looking great Marco!

 

[Lizzard]

A month later, well now he is 7 months + 2 weeks, Marco is 59 pounds. Still on the lean side! Need to measure his height...

Well I skipped a couple months, it seems. I do know that Marco at 9 months was 63 pounds and 24" - guess I never posted it here!

Now he's 10 months and he just spent 1o days at Doggie Camp while my husband and I were on vacation... we came back and he looked like a sack of bones... sure enough, he's only 58 pounds! We're giving him extra food and not a bunch of exercise for the next couple weeks. He is totally KNOCKED OUT, though... they said he just was NONSTOP the whole time he was there... they tried to up his food, but he only ate so much of it and ran around way too much more!

He seems a little taller too, which might contribute to the skinny look. Will measure him...

For my own reference:
Marco at 20 weeks was 44#
Marco at 6 month: 53# , 23" tall
7.5 months: 59#
9 months: 63#, 24" tall
11 months: 58# <--- right after 10 days at doggie camp, not a normal reading!

 

[Marko1962]

Oh wow, I guess that was a good job - I had to go back and see what Jess was talking about. LOL He's looking great Marco!

You mean you didn't notice he has sticky up ears and no tail?

 

[JanS]

You mean you didn't notice he has sticky up ears and no tail?

LOL, no I didn't at first but with a good PS job like that it just looked like it was supposed to be that way. He looks great both ways, but you can really see all of his muscle and great build with the C/D squaring up his body.

Wow Liz that's too bad about Marco loosing so much weight while you were away. I'm sure he'll put it back on fairly fast now that he's back home with you guys though.

 

[Ataro]

Ashra
DOB: 14 October 2011

10 weeks 10.7kg (23.5lb)
3 months 11.7kg (25.7lb)
3.5 months 13kg (28.6lb) & 53cm/21"
4 months 14.6kg (32lb)
4.5 months 16.5kg (36.3lb)
5 months 19.2kg (42.2lb)
5.25 months 20.1kg (44.2lb)
5.75 months 23.9kg (52.6lb) & 54.6cm/21.5"
6 months 24.6kg (54.1lb) & 57cm / 22.5"
6.5 months 22.6kg (49.7lb) & 60cm / 23.75"
7 months 25.2kg (55.4lb) & ~62cm / 24.5"

*Since Ashra started eating a bit more (around 3.5 cups per day) she's put on a bit more weight. Things are finally starting to look up, even though she's still a few kilos underweight by the looks of things.

 

[Marinegeekswife]

River
10 weeks - 14 lbs
11 weeks - 14.8 lbs
12 weeks - 17.1 lbs
13 weeks (but 3 calendar months) - 21.8 lbs
16 weeks - 28 lbs
17 weeks (4 calendar months old in 3 days) - 29.5 lbs
20 weeks - 35.6 lbs
21 weeks - 37.4 lbs and 21 inches tall
22 weeks (5 calendar months last Saturday) - 38.8 lbs
24 weeks - 42.8 lbs and 22 1/2 inches tall.
26 weeks (6 calendar months yesterday) - 45.4 lbs
28 weeks - 48.2 lbs and approx 23 1/4 inches tall
31 weeks (7 calendar months last Friday) - 52.2 lbs and 24 - 24 1/4 inches tall
32 weeks - 54.4lbs
35 weeks (8 calendar months last Saturday) - 55 lbs and 25 inches tall
36 1/2 weeks - 57.3 lbs
39 weeks (9 calendar months) - 61.8 lbs
40 weeks - 59.6 lbs and still 25 1/4 inches tall
43 weeks (10 calendar months) - 60.0 lbs
45 weeks - 61.3 lbs

 

[JanS]

Great shot of River Jess!

Ataro, that weight sounds pretty darn good. I don't think Della weighed that much at that age even though she's probably a little smaller.

 

[Marinegeekswife]

Great shot of River Jess!

Would have been better if I'd been a smidge faster. She was in a perfect stack until a few seconds before I took the photo. I swear they do it on purpose.

 

[Ataro]

Great shot of River Jess!

Ataro, that weight sounds pretty darn good. I don't think Della weighed that much at that age even though she's probably a little smaller.

I wouldn't be too worried except that she hasn't been eating well and considering the last time she weighed that amount she was a couple of inches shorter (and didn't have her hip bones sticking out). Still, she looks a hell of a lot better than she did at 21.7kg which was what she weighed at 6 months and 1 week with the worms.

 

[EARL99016]

Callie's weigh in:

13wks - 26.6#'s
14wks - 28.0#'s
15wks - 32.2#'s
16wks - 39.0#'s (21.0in)
17wks - 40.4#'s (22.0in)
18wks - 44.5#'s (23.5in)
19wks - 46.5#'s (24.0in)
20wks - 50.0#'s (25.0in)
21wks - 54.0#'s (25.6in)
22wks - 55.0#'s (25.6in)
23wks - 57.0#'s (26.0in)
24wks - 59.0#'s (26.0in)
25wks - 59.5#'s (26.0in)
26wks - 60.0#'s (26.6in) 6mo old
30.5wks - 63.5#'s (26.6in) 7mo old
32.6wks - 68.0#'s (26.8in) 7 1/2mo old
34.7wks - 69.0#s (27.0in) 8mo old
36.9wks - 71.0#'s (27.0in) 8 1/2mo old
Format change
9mo - 73.5#'s (27.6in)
10mo - 78.0#'s (28.0in)

Sorry folks...no pictures. I've been so swamped driving trains I have a hard time even spending time with Callie at all let alone get some pictures of her.

I'm just real lucky and thankful my wife has kept up with Callie's need and desire to exercise. The local college has granted me permission to use a couple of their fields to use. Of course it helps that I have 3/4 of an acre at home for Callie to romp around on, but it's nice to have even a larger area to let Callie off leash to just run.

I have mountains all around me that I can use also but those "TICKS" are out in full force right now and that is such a PITA! The other day I took her up to a friends cabin and in the time that it took to walk from the truck to the cabin...2min...Callie and his German Shepard were covered in them. It took me over 30min at the cabin to rid her of the pesky critters and when I got home that evening and gave her another through screening I found about 15 I missed earlier.

She did a pretty good job of ridding herself of them as she would feel them, but out of all that I basically just brushed off of her there were only 2 that even got to her skin and started to feed. I got lucky! So for the time being I think I'll keep her in town.

Cya

Cya

 

[Mr.V]

Sheba
5 months 25lbs
6 months 32lbs
7 months 40lbs

When she was younger she put on weight faster. I believe she is slowing down now.
I run her everyday so I think I need to increase the protien in the food I buy, but I
would like one that also has 4% fiber or more.

 

[Marinegeekswife]

Sheba
5 months 25lbs
6 months 32lbs
7 months 40lbs

When she was younger she put on weight faster. I believe she is slowing down now.
I run her everyday so I think I need to increase the protien in the food I buy, but I
would like one that also has 4% fiber or more.

Welcome Mr. V. We'd love to hear more about you and Sheba. Please hop on over to the Introduction section and tell us a bit more about you two.

 

[kaloric]

Kira's weigh-in:


Kira has learned to "surf" on the wobbly, slippery pan on the giant balance scale and doesn't seem to mind it much anymore, she jumps right on.

Most of her weigh-ins from 9-33 weeks were very close to River's corresponding weigh-ins, though I didn't write them down.
...
33 Weeks - 55 lbs.
34 Weeks - 56.5 lbs.
36 Weeks - 59 lbs.
38 Weeks - 59.5 lbs.
39 Weeks 59 lbs. (today)

 

[Denissov43]

Mark: LOVE the cropped and docked PSD! he looks like a completely different dog... I like him uncropped and UN docked better! LOL I usually do not say that!
Earle: boy has the Call-ster gotten up there! I knew she was gonna be a good size girl! She is right behind my monster Gemma Rose! Gemma is 84 now and holding and has held there for about a year or so... she got up to 91 when she was 11 months old, but she actually thinned out a bit as she matured.
I do not know what Baba weighs, but will weigh and measure him tomorrow... he is offficially ONE YEAR OLD TODAY... but we are gonna have his birthday party and cake tomorrow... so photos will be forthcoming!

 

[JanS]

Happy Birthday to baby Baba! I was just thinking it must be about now - wow time flies. Can't wait to see pics!

 

[Mr.V]

Kira's weigh-in:

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Kira has learned to "surf" on the wobbly, slippery pan on the giant balance scale and doesn't seem to mind it much anymore, she jumps right on.

Most of her weigh-ins from 9-33 weeks were very close to River's corresponding weigh-ins, though I didn't write them down.
...
33 Weeks - 55 lbs.
34 Weeks - 56.5 lbs.
36 Weeks - 59 lbs.
38 Weeks - 59.5 lbs.
39 Weeks 59 lbs. (today)

I'm glad to see another person with a Dobe with uncropped ears. Everywhere I go here in Florida most people are first shocked to see one and then even more taken back that the ears are natural.

 

[Ataro]

I'm glad to see another person with a Dobe with uncropped ears. Everywhere I go here in Florida most people are first shocked to see one and then even more taken back that the ears are natural.

Looks like you haven't seen half the Dobe puppies on this thread

 

[kaloric]

I'm glad to see another person with a Dobe with uncropped ears. Everywhere I go here in Florida most people are first shocked to see one and then even more taken back that the ears are natural.

Yeah, I never realized quite how many people were under the impression that Dobe ears were just small and upright naturally, until I started having to explain it.

I was pretty much on the fence as far as having them cropped, but then when my older Dobe began declining fast and requiring a lot of my time for the vet visits and extra effort to keep her comfortable, dealing with cropping & posting and such on the puppy was right out, it was the last thing on my mind since I just didn't have the time & focus to make sure I was doing the post-crop care & posting well.

I love the way both natural and cropped ears look. Dobes wear just about any look really well, they're all adorable.

Though I really have to wonder, if folks think that the natural ears aren't, what do they think is going-on with uncropped dogs? Do they think there are ear extensions attached to the Dobe's head so it can go incognito?