[FlDebra]

Being a young teen, he may have just meant your little girl seemed big for 19 weeks. In his mind 19 weeks was a tiny baby and maybe his year old dog seemed a lot older to him. Hard to write what I am thinking but you know, maybe he was equating people size differences with the difference he was seeing in the dogs and thought there would be a lot more difference.
I think sometimes we are so bonded with our babies that we get alittle overprotective when we hear comments. They may have meant nothing sinister at all but unless we hear something like, "what a wonderful, beautiful, yorkie" we get our defenses up. People comment on human babies' sizes all the time too and usually mean nothing bad by it.

Last night at the ballpark, I said, "What a big boy you are," to a little human baby and all smiled like it was a compliment. It was just something to say so I could get attention from the sweet little guy. Big or small comments usually don't mean anything. But if we are overly sensitive about something, we can hear malice in anything. I know I am sensitive to my weight, so if a comment can be interpreted in a bad way about my size, I will probably hear it that way when I know I should not. Hope I am writing this the way I mean it. I empathize with you, but am encouraging you to look at a positive turn on the encounter.

Now, if someone obviously has their nose in the air when they comment, then, fine -- give them a comeuppance but be sure they are not just making conversation because they are drawn to your little one. BTW I love that tail! I was so tempted to leave my litter's tails on, but most expect them to be docked here, so I went with tradition. But I really like the tails.