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How much does your puppy weigh at 8 weeks

  • Female: 12 - 14

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  • Female 14 - 16

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  • Female 16 - 18

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  • Female 18+

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  • Male: 14 - 16

    Votes: 88 25.1%
  • Male: 16 - 18

    Votes: 56 16.0%
  • Male 18 - 20

    Votes: 41 11.7%
  • Male: 20+

    Votes: 19 5.4%

How much did your 8 week old puppy weigh

93K views 89 replies 79 participants last post by  greenkouki 
#1 ·
I just received my 8 week old female. She weighed 16 lbs. How much did your puppy weigh at 8 week? Male? Female?
 
#2 ·
I didn't get my male until he was ten weeks old and he was 19.6 pounds. He was not in the best of shape, had chronic loose stool, he immediately started gaining 1/2 pound a day on better quality food then the breeder was feeding, and caught up to most puppies his age by the three month mark. Her weight now has no baring on how big she will end up....genetics will determine that.
 
#12 ·
Jordan was small up until he hit a year and then exploded. He grew until he looked like a min pin on stilts and then his body started filling out until he reached 95 pounds and has finally slowed down at 2 years. He is not at all fat or bulky even, but a large size. I notice this a lot when I see other dobermans and look at pictures of my past dobermans. He towers over Summer, dwarfing her and the others were bigger, but surely didn't dwarf her.
 
#13 ·
When we got Sasha, supposedly she was 9 weeks old and she only weighed
8lbs and was extremely wormy. I don't think she was as old as the owner stated. The owner/byb did not provide and documentation or vaccinee history for her. Based on the information from the owner, Sasha would be approximately 25 weeks old today, but all the Dobie's at our Vets office that are 6months old are much bigger than Sasha.

Here is a Picture of her the day we got her, supposedly 9 weeks old:


Here is a picture of her today:
 
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#19 ·
when I took 8 week old pups in for ear cropping they ranged in weight, from 8 pounds to 14. but then my pups were smaller weights were smaller, in my first litter birth weights ranged from 8 oz to 15, they are all good healthy weights as adults (Rex is now 85 lbs), second litter was closer, all the girls were 12 oz. and the boys were 11, 14 & 15. Again, smaller to start but all are good weights as they approach a year.
 
#20 ·
I agree that it's hard to tell adult weight by puppy weights. My singleton went to live with a litter for a few weeks. He was a very very large/chunky puppy even tho I tried to limit his eating. The other litter was much smaller. As adults, they are all bigger like their parents are.

My current Vizsla was 13.5 lbs at 8 weeks and 2 of the girls were already 16 lbs. Right now all of them are 21 lbs.
 
#54 ·
I agree there are more important things to worry about, but at the same time isnt it the same thing a doctor puts you through with a child as it grows up? They weight and measure your child through the years and graph it on a chart to see where they fall in the national average. I don't know about you but my Dobie is my kid so I treat him that way. I know for me it's just nice to know where he ranges in size, but I know there is a lot of factors that go into it. European vs. American, bone structure, heatlh, bloodlines, different growth rates, runt of litter and etc. In the end all that matters is if they are heathly and that's where shots and yearly vet checks come in.
 
#22 ·
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When i got my male at 8 weeks he was 13.4 pounds. he looks like he is skin and bones now. i have no idea if that is normal now or if it isnt. he doesnt eat much and when he does, he only eats half his meal and then looks at me. i dont know why. i have to encourage him to eat by mixing it around a bit. he is 10 weeks now. and i havnt weighed him yet
 
#27 ·
Fitz was 7 weeks old from an American line of Dobermans (yep, BYB), I had second pick (the lady who had pick took the female blue that I wanted...now I'm thankful anyway). He was the largest of the litter although that was just a thing I remembered about him after picking him for personality at the time. He appeared to be the most confident (behind the female blue) and least impressed with the strange couples that were there.
 
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