Quote:
Originally Posted by berkdogg  Hey Caelestis, I did by from a reputable breeder and my dog was purchased as working dog, not pet quality.
His diet consist of 1 cup of bill jacks/raw ground beef, 3 cups of proplan (puppy), 1 spoonfull of unflavored yogurt, 1/2 cup ground carrots. He will usually eat 1/2 in the morning and the other half at night.
I have not had any blood work done as of yet, I am just speculating at this time that there may be something wrong with him from the post I have read here. Fecal scans continually come back negative.
I know that I am not in control of mother nature but I figure breeders should at least be able to roughly gauge the weight and height of pups from particular breedings. Like I said I wanted a dog particularly for working, and should it turns out that he be smaller than most females, then I am definitely not happy with the purchase.
It is a good idea to determine the weight of his litter mates.
He is a little over 26" and is about maybe 65lbs (has been since 8.5 months old).
And Caelestis, if you are a Breeder please tell me the name of your operation so I can stay away from self assuming, pompous, know it all, unfair breeders, who don't stand by the dogs they sell because they don't know what the hell they are doing. |
then he is within AKC standard height (no standard weight). At one year old, he may be close to being finished growing in height but not finished developing muscle/weight. Is he neutered? There are others on DT with smaller dogs. me for one - we have a 27" 73lb 20month old dog. He is very much a doberman.
So you don't even want to give your guy a shot to prove to you he is a doberman in heart, drive and stamina? From other threads on DT, I have come to appreciate that the bigger dogs are not always the best working dogs - what by the way do you mean by working? Maybe that is an important distinction to help readers understand your frustration.