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11-08-2013, 04:02 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: whitby, On, Canada
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| What a big boy Wallee has officially joined the teapot club. After trying on his winter coat from last year which was too tight in the neck and chest I decided to step him on my scale. WOW! He's now tipping the scale at 14.8. He will be 2 in 4 months so hopefully this is it for his growth. I had him weighed at the vet in May (just after his 1st birthday) and he was 12lbs. Funny thing is that feeding him has always been a challenge. He only eats his kibble from a treat ball and I have recently started giving him 2 oz of raw diet at supper. I am really going to clamp down on the stealing cat food. We don't free feed our cats but rather just put their food down when they ask at the cupboard. We then usually stand at the bowls until they are finished as sir Walter will steal from them. Sometimes we will put their food down if we go outside with Wallee but the dang bugger will run in and snatch a kibble before we get up the stairs...lol He still doesn't look too heavy at all but...after seeing that weight, I will be keeping an eye on what goes into his tummy. Can you believe his mommy is only 8 lbs and his daddy is 6?? |
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11-08-2013, 06:04 AM | #2 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Wallee is so beautiful! In the pictures he doesn't look that big! I have a niece with a yorkie who is that size and he isn't over weight. Charlie is the sweetest ball of fluff, too!
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11-08-2013, 06:16 AM | #3 |
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| Thanks Deb. I know he isn't overweight at this point as he is almost 16 inches neck to tail. He is just a big boy. I, like so many others on here bought him from a byb without being very knowledgeable about the breed before coming here. Not sure why I did that as I purchased my first dog from a show breeder who is still breeding champions 30 years later. I do know that Wallee's mom is IBC as he was adopted up the street from me and the people have all her papers showing her lines from Germany. I was also told that his father had papers but know the breeder sold him shortly after I bought Wallee as she stopped breeding Biewers. Wallee's birth caused his mom a C section and that was the end of her breeding days. Somewhere down the line he has a larger relative, just not his parents. I still am happy with him as I did want a little larger yorkie due to having 4 large cats in the house but wow....when I walk him I always get "he sure doesn't look like a yorkie". I think the combination of Biewer markings and his size makes my saying he is yorkie unbelievable to many who have never heard of them. |
11-08-2013, 06:34 AM | #4 |
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| Lol I know what you mean! Jackson kept growing and growing... From about 6 months to a year, he was always a steady 12lbs. Then all the sudden, I remember we had a vet visit around 1 1/2 years old maybe, and the scale read nearly 16lbs. I thought there was NO way. Tried another scale, same thing. So odd... because his harnesses all still fit, and such, and he was always in good shape so I know he wasn't over-weight. I think a lot of his was muscle and still just filling out. By 2 1/2, the scale was reading 17.5lbs. And that's about where he stays. So heres my almost 18lb Mr Muscle man Yorkie at nearly 5yrs old!!!
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11-08-2013, 06:43 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Great looking pup. I'm just sad that his Wallee vest probably doesn't fit him anymore.
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11-08-2013, 07:03 AM | #6 | |
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If not, mommy may have to do some Dr ing it up to go around him. | |
11-08-2013, 07:11 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: whitby, On, Canada
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| Woohoo..just checked and it still fits. The velcro around the tummy is only off by less than an inch....so relieved as I LOVE THAT VEST. |
11-08-2013, 07:13 AM | #8 | |
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11-08-2013, 07:20 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member | Awesome!...get that seam ripper out. :-)
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