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#371748 - 01/08/2013 06:06 PM |
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Thanks for the video. He looks perfect to me. I keep mine just as trim as yours and my vet thinks their weight is great.
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Re: Underweight at 10 months?
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#371749 - 01/08/2013 06:08 PM |
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Laying in his crate, he looks pretty thin, but I think it's a stage of life, the end of long bone growth, and before hormones and relaxation lay down muscle and fat. A string bean, the way we all were at 11, just before puberty.
I like a big pup thin at this age. You could boost his ration a little for cold weather, but I wouldn't worry about it. He'll thicken up as he matures.
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#371750 - 01/08/2013 06:08 PM |
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I wouldn't want to see him loose any weight....but I also don't think that he needs any either. I'd try to keep him right where he is for his age. Much healthier for his joints.
He looks just like my male did at that age. In fact he looks better then mind did. Mine was a tiny bit thinner. :-)
You vet is just too used to seeing FAT dogs!!!
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#371751 - 01/08/2013 06:15 PM |
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Thanks all, I know you'd give me the straight business if you thought he was off. Betty, cold weather only lasts another couple Weeks down here but I'll ensure he gets some extra calories, I need to pick some mackerel up anyhow 
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#371768 - 01/08/2013 11:02 PM |
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10lbs O_O you're vet wants 10lbs on him?!!!! Where exactly should he put it? Perhaps grow and additional head or leg?
He doesn't look that thin to me considering his age, he looks gawky which is how he should look. He looks fine in the video
ten pounds is a LOT on a dog that size....my ACD goes up and down 5lbs or so (55 to as high as 60lbs) depending on what he's doing (he bulks out when doing draft work or carting, gets lean in the summer when it's all frisbee on OB) and the difference is HUGE, 10lbs and I think you'd have a dog bordering on fat....
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#371812 - 01/10/2013 02:21 AM |
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He looks like a normal, gangly teenage boy to me. I wouldn't worry about putting extra weight on him, at least not at this point.
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#371823 - 01/10/2013 10:07 AM |
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Perfect weight!
Have you ever considered his cross, though DEFINITELY half Malinois (the more dominant side of the cross obviously)....is hound? Look at his ears, the side of his face, his build. Seriously, GSD would not be my guess for 2nd breed.
He really looks great, keep it up!!! I know he has been a challenge for you and your doing an awesome job with him. Vets are not used to dogs with toned muscles and healthy lean shaped torsos....they are used to atrophied pudgy kibble fed dogs. Logan has been on raw too and looks young but is 7 now. Keep it up!
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Re: Underweight at 10 months?
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#371824 - 01/10/2013 10:22 AM |
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FWIW, kibble-fed does not equate to atrophied or pudgy. Overweight dogs are a sign of mismanagement, period, regardless of the diet.
From what I've seen over the past forty years, table fed and over/poorly-treated are much worse offenders than kibble.
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#371825 - 01/10/2013 10:29 AM |
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IMHO, too many calories for the amount of exercise = overweight dog.
People can overfeed and under-exercise a dog on fresh, canned, kibble, or cooked.
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#371826 - 01/10/2013 10:30 AM |
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Tresa, I have often joked that I thought a hound snuck in on his mom. Seriously. Until his chest dropped I was starting to wonder. We'll see as he gets older, if he never bulks out. His personality seems very GSD, goofy boy. Both dam and sire were supposed to belong to the man we got him from, clearly he wasn't keeping them separated quiiite enough.
I know folks can do an awesome job with kibble for their dogs, but on raw, Duke's got such a clear head! He seems to understand a lot better what we want of him, so I'll feed raw when I can get it and deal with his froofy headed sillyness when I can't
And thanks for the compliment Tresa - the first 6 months were definitely the hardest, and I am so happy to finally have a local trainer with an interest in protection work, she's helped us out a lot. (She has 2 young malis, one out of a Comtes D'Hoffman dam with a Dantero sire, should be fun watching him grow up!)
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