nittynat

I'm assuming all puppies/dogs vary in weight and know my puppies mother and father were large, but just curious about weight, as don't want him bigger than he should be.

I took my basset (Herbert) to the vet last week and he weighed in at 23.7kg (although he was moving around alot) and the week before he was 21.7kg, so would say he is somewhere between the both.

I feed him dry food, now twice a day what is recommended on the package and he has occasional treats.

But just wondered what you think, is that an ok weight, or would you say he is overweight and i need to start cutting back a bit.

I walk him twice a day for average 20 mins.

cheers

Pricey

I think hector was around that at that age then he really started slow down weight wise, I think it's personally best to off the look of the pup rather than the weight.

loopylou

Sounds okay to me, Monty's big but so were his parents. As Pricey said you'll know by the look/feel of him.

Soundtrack

Kermit was around 50 lbs at that age and my vet advised switching to adult food simply because we were concerned that overly rapid growth might affect his bone growth. Rapidly growing/large male pups are also more at risk for panosteitis. Kermit finished out at 65-70 lbs (depending on whether he was showing or not).

As for whether he's overweight, there is so much variation in bassets that it can't really be determined by age/weight but rather by looking at body condition. A large framed pup could easily be 50lbs and be skinny, whereas a small framed pup could be overweight or even obese at that weight. Best to check with your vet on that one.

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henry'smum

Send pictures but it sounds just like Henry was at 6 months, now he is 50ld and looks like a skinny racing basset, noone ever thinks he is as hefty as he is

Mikey T

things to consider

this stagtement can be interpreted two ways 1 that feeding twice a day is what is recccommend or 2. you are following the recoomend amount to feed on the pack of the pakaging based on the dogs age and weight.

1 am going to assume the latter for this discusssion. Recommendation by manufactures tend to be high because it is in teir best interest to have more food bought. and basset are developmentally ie physicak unique in one required that effect feeding amount that is the have the largest bone mass than any other breed. that isd bone composes a larger percentage of the dogs body weight than other breed. Bones require substainial less enery calories than other body structures like skin and muscles so in general basset need less food for a given weight then the average basset generally is being over fed if fed the minimium recommendation on the dog food bag. Keeping in bind the need of individual dogs varries greatly and there are certainly basset that do not fit this pattern


2. basset developmental ae a large breed dog they tend to suffer the same or at even a highr rate abnormal growth from over nutrtion pano and othe orthpeadic condions typical of large and giant breed not seen in medium and smaller breed so even though some basset are smaller in weght than is typical included in large breed designation IMHO it is best to treat a growing puppy as a large breed puppy,

a. it is important to keep a large breed puppy thin never mind a normal weight to prevent developmental problems
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b.one purina study even with a bcs chart are poor at judging their own dogs weight
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...The vet said that the dog was a good weight (or even underweight). I have asked many vets why they don’t tell their clients that their dogs are overweight, and I always get the same answer: “I have lost so many clients because they were offended when I told them their dogs were overweight that I just don’t tell them anymore”. So please, don’t be offended—it doesn’t reflect on you personally.

barneysmom2510

Barney is 6 months old and he weighs between 35-40 pounds that is a guess he has not been weighed in 6 weeks and he was 32 pounds then. His dad was 60 pounds and his mom around 50. This is my first big dog so I am not sure how much growing he has left but I think he will fall somewhere in that weight.

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bubbad

Page was a little over 50lbs at 8 months and Mabel too. I only know pounds sorry. This breed rarely matures befor 2-3 years of age if you want a comparason go to my gallery and look at Bubba he is my avatar 17 months old there and I think I have a show photo of him at 2 1/2 years old where you can see the difference he is 70lbs in the show photo.

Mikey T

2.2 lbs - kilo 23.7k =52.14 lbs 21.7K=47.74

nittynat

Thank you all so much for your replies. He does look ok and doesn't look overweight to me, still goes in and out at the right places, but not as much as he did before christmas. Obviously he is growing still, but I may just cut out a little bit and see how he goes and I don't want him overweight.

Thanks again