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Originally Posted by BlondieGirl87 She is so cute! She's only 1 pound 4 ounces?? I thought you said in December that the breeder said she was too small to fly because she weighed 1 pound 3 ounces and she had to gain 9 more ounces before she could fly. I was wondering because I hadn't heard of one that little being allowed to fly before. Most of them make them be at least a pound and half before they are able to be on a plan even if they are with someone.
She looks about the same size as my Jewelina and she was 1 pound 10 ounces, then I weighed her on my postal scale today and it says she's back to 1 pound 7 ounces...I think her bladder might've been full when I weighed the the other day.
Anyway, I was asking because I thought if she was 1.3 ounces when she was 8 weeks old and 1.4 oz now at 10 weeks I was trying to figure out if it was ok for them to only gain that much in that amount of time. My vet said they should gain between an ounce to three ounces a week while they are still growing but Jewelina has had basically the same weight now since she was 7 weeks old...maybe when they don't gain lots of weight it just means they are going to stay tiny  She eats like a pig so I'd think she'd weigh more but she doesn't...  |
Yea, that's what I was wondering! The breeder said she needed to gain another 9 oz before she could fly but she said you know what we can just send her now because we doubt she will gain that in a short amount of time and she still hasn't. She was not shipped in cargo though, she was brought by hand by someone who works for American Airlines. Last time we went to the vet she was only 1.2 lbs which surprised me because I thought she had gained weight. When I weighed her like last week she was 1.3 lbs so I guess she just doesn't gain that much weight too fast. And she eats a lot more now also, maybe she just burns it off. She's the same weight as when she was 5 weeks old, so I think she might stay small or have a growth spurth or something. She's 12 1/2 weeks now, I am going to weigh her tommorrow at my bf's house since I don't have a scale.