Well.... My humans have been researching this since they don't know who the father is, and I haven't told them yet. hehehehe... They think there is more than one father in my litter (They are right on that part)
Another Method my humans found is "Loose Skin" How much extra room do they have to grow into their suit? Again... Scrappy has SO much skin he looks like a bloodhound! Weezer here has a little, but not an overly large amount. Benji is kind of in the middle of the two methods I mentioned. She has decent sized feet and a moderately thick tail with a bit of loose skin, but not as much as Scrappy or as little as Snowy or Weezer.
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| Scrappy - White Male |
Well.... My humans have been researching this since they don't know who the father is, and I haven't told them yet. hehehehe... They think there is more than one father in my litter (They are right on that part)
With mixed breeds it's always a guessing game if one parent is unknown. There are several methods out there on the Internet that explain how to predict puppy size; the most popular being foot size and the tails width at the point where it connects to their butt. So lets see... I weigh about 30 pounds and I have tiny feet and a long skinny tail.
Scrappy here for instance...he's got really big webbed feet and a thicker Labrador-like tail. He's the heaviest and biggest boned of the bunch while Snowy has petite feet and a moderately thick tail. She's about a pound lighter than Scrappy. Weezer has feet like Snowy. Tiny and petite and his tail is fairly thin. He's the runt of the litter and the middle child. If you go by this "foot/tail" method Scrappy will be much bigger than Snowy and Weezer probably by 10 or 15 pounds.
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| Snowy - White/Tan Female |
Another Method my humans found is "Loose Skin" How much extra room do they have to grow into their suit? Again... Scrappy has SO much skin he looks like a bloodhound! Weezer here has a little, but not an overly large amount. Benji is kind of in the middle of the two methods I mentioned. She has decent sized feet and a moderately thick tail with a bit of loose skin, but not as much as Scrappy or as little as Snowy or Weezer.
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| Weezer - Black/White Male |
A Third method is to take the weight of the puppy at 6 weeks old... Double it... and then double that number. The final number should be an average of what they will weigh as an adult. I'm not too sure about this method, but for example and just an example as they may grow faster in the next 2 weeks... Scrappy being 6lbs at 4 weeks and gains about 2 pounds a week... should be about 10lbs at 6 weeks. 10 X 2 = 20; 20 x 2 = 40lbs as an adult. A purebred Labrador breeder friend of my humans says that her labs at 8 weeks old weight about 13 - 14 pounds and do gain about 2 to 4 pounds a week. Her dogs are about 50 - 80 pounds full grown. A German Shepherd breeder friend said that her boys at 4 weeks are about 9 pounds and the girls at about 7 pounds or so. with all these methods being taken into consideration my humans believe these guys will be of various sizes and builds and can be about the size of a Golden Retriever, Labrador or other Medium sized dog and between 35 - 50 pounds.
I hope this helped answer your question.
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| Benji - Tan/Cream Female |
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