large boned

[los1]

Ok maybe stupid question but . How can you tell if your pup/dog is well big boned as they say? everyone always say look at the parents . My pup parents well the father was pretty big wide and mom looked about the norm for female rotties so wheredoes that put my pup?

[my2rotties]

Well with my girl Diva, as well as my girl at the Bridge, they both had huge feet and huge leg bones. Diva was like that especially. She looked like a little monster truck. She is over sized at 28" tall and 120 pounds. Sheena was the same size as well. They also had more loose skin as pups then I recall many other puppies being like.

Diva's parents were of the correct size standard, and she is much bigger then the both of them. I never saw Sheena's father, but I was told he was bigger then her mother. Sheena's mother was about the same size as Sheena was.

I don't know if that is like this with all dogs, but it was an observation for mine.

[rottcrazed]

You can see a heavily boned puppy at 8 weeks. Although you can't always tell how heavily boned they will be at a later age. Looking at the parents won't tell you what type of boning your dog will have because puppies will often resemble a grand parent rather than a parent.

You just need to have other dogs to compare of you do not know what you are looking for.

Kristi