Hi,
New Cockapoo owners here, got a question about our little Amber, she is 15 weeks old and doesn't seem to be getting any "chunkier". She was last weight at the vets a week ago and was only around 7lb and doesn't seem to be gaining any appreciable weight, well, not according to our home scales.
We are feeding her 3 decent sized meals a day, but it seems she is burning it all off dashing around playing as there seems to be little padding on her. We are used to puppies being quite "well padded".
Our last two dogs were considerably larger, our previous old boy being a chunky black Lab of some 6 1/2 stone! So we are not sure if, being a small dog, the growth is much more subtle. (Shadow was larger than Amber when we picked him up at 8 weeks!)
Her mom was a standard Roan Cocker and dad was apparently a toy poodle.
We *think* she is going to be a small Cockapoo, but from what I gather, there is no "set" size due to the wide variety of parent options.
Amber is pretty active, eats fine, does "the zoomies" a couple of times a day and seems to be going the loo ok, though the motions get a little softer through the day.
We did try feeding her more, but she was sick and we read that apparently, that can happen if they are overfed?
We have moved her from a dry complete to Natures Diet wet food over he last week as our last dog thrived on that.
She is due her next worming in a week, but is fully up to date with injections / worming. I've attached a pic of herself so you can see how she is.
It could be normal, but as we do not know how big she is supposed to get, it is a worry for us that she is not growing at a decent rate. Any advice and opinions welcomed.
New Cockapoo owners here, got a question about our little Amber, she is 15 weeks old and doesn't seem to be getting any "chunkier". She was last weight at the vets a week ago and was only around 7lb and doesn't seem to be gaining any appreciable weight, well, not according to our home scales.
We are feeding her 3 decent sized meals a day, but it seems she is burning it all off dashing around playing as there seems to be little padding on her. We are used to puppies being quite "well padded".
Our last two dogs were considerably larger, our previous old boy being a chunky black Lab of some 6 1/2 stone! So we are not sure if, being a small dog, the growth is much more subtle. (Shadow was larger than Amber when we picked him up at 8 weeks!)
Her mom was a standard Roan Cocker and dad was apparently a toy poodle.
We *think* she is going to be a small Cockapoo, but from what I gather, there is no "set" size due to the wide variety of parent options.
Amber is pretty active, eats fine, does "the zoomies" a couple of times a day and seems to be going the loo ok, though the motions get a little softer through the day.
We did try feeding her more, but she was sick and we read that apparently, that can happen if they are overfed?
We have moved her from a dry complete to Natures Diet wet food over he last week as our last dog thrived on that.
She is due her next worming in a week, but is fully up to date with injections / worming. I've attached a pic of herself so you can see how she is.
It could be normal, but as we do not know how big she is supposed to get, it is a worry for us that she is not growing at a decent rate. Any advice and opinions welcomed.
