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[ROTTSVILLE]

Just for comparrison, can anybody who has a rot of approx 14- 15 months old, indicate the weight. My bitch , i always thought was slightly on the large side , but when she was weighed a few weeks ago she was 90 lbs, which to me seems fine, as she is quite an active bitch.

[livertw]

My Daisy will be 14 months old on the 28th. She is 25" tall and weighs 85 pounds. She is long and lean, not compact and blocky. I have noticed two distinct Rottie shapes -- the heavy wide ones with the block heads and the long lean ones with the skillet heads. A friend has a bitch that is about as tall as Daisy and weighs 100+ and does not look fat. She has a wider build.:p

[cinde33]

Mine is 16 months and is about 80-85 lbs.

[RSQRottweiler]

Sebastian is about 16-17 months, but tall (27-28") and is a slender 111lbs. He was a rescue so I know nothing about his parents' size/weight.

Audrey

[oneRottsmom]

Wow... my girl is 10 months old and the vet weighed her last week and she's 81.5 pounds but not in the least bit fat.

[Judi W]

I would suggest that 90 pounds at that age even for a big bitch is quite heavy. She very well might need her vitals cut down a bit.

[TwitEm]

My Rottie is 10 months and weighs only 70 pounds. She was the runt of the litter, however and weighed only 5 oz at birth. The female Rottie I had who died in a fire almost three years ago weighed 125 pounds at age three--she was huge, as tall as the kitchen table, and way over size for a female Rottie. She was not fat. I don't really know what the typical wt. and size is. TwitEm

[ROTTSVILLE]

Thanks for the comparisons, i thought that my 14-15 month old bitch was under weight, but perhaps not???? She is very active and is quite agile and fit looking. I just thought that , giveb the correct weight of 90-110 lbs, i thought she was slightly under weight, the upside is she is very good at jumping etc, and can jump clean over a park bench with ease etc, but i would have thought that apart from some filling out for the next 6 months or so, she wont put on a hell of a lot more weight.......any more comparisons????????????

[ROTTSVILLE]

OOOOOPPPPSSS, I think i have made a boo-boo, regarding my bitch's weight......(maths never was my strong point). At 14 months she weighed 38 kilos, i worked this out as 90 lbs, which i've now re-worked it out to about 83 lbs(i think), my bitch is shrinking !!!!........also, how do people weigh their dogs, other than visiting a vets.......???

[livertw]

Fortunately my vet's office is 10 minutes from my house. I take Daisy on Saturday morning every three weeks or so after we have our playtime at the park. I can walk her straight back to the stand-on digital scale, and I'll read her weight and be out of there (with a treat biscuit) in one minute. Very convenient. I don't know how I'd weigh her otherwise. ;)

[tomsdog]

My girl is 9 1/2 mos. 25 1/2" and 93 lbs. The vet has told me since she was 7 weeks old not to let her gain too much weight, because of health problems, so I try to keep a close eye on her. Had her to the vet last week just to weigh her and get his opinion on her weight. He said she looks real good. I have seen some really fat rottweilers and I am going to try my best not to have her get over weight.

[Judi W]

85 to 95 or so pounds is what you might expect for a in-standard bitch at MATURE weight. That is at the age of 3 and up. Please do not ask a growing pup to carry a mature dog's weight. It should takes years to get to that. I have a top of the standard largish bitch and I do not allow her to go over 95 pounds although she would dearly love to. She needs to be able to jump in competition which she does quite nicely at the age of 7 1/2. You do want your girls to be fit and able to work even at that age don't you? Yes, I thought so. So, that being the case, please do not ask these pups to look like or carry the body weight of an older dog. Be patient and let them body out with time, not food alone.

[German Vanegas]

I was going to say... but Judi W said it all! I concur with the above reply :)

[ROTTSVILLE]

Thanks judi for the reply, and if german agrees with it then......well it must be right !!!!. One other point though, is that the breed standard says bitch (fully grown ) should be between 90 and 110 lbs, wouldnt 85 pounds, be technically under the standard. Also in therory i would have thought that even a bitch over 100 lbs, say up to 110 should(in theory) still be able to perform as a working dog , by definition of the breed standard, wouldnt you agree. One other point is, god some of these rots sound massive at such a young age, what will they end up like.My liddle 85 pounder sounds even smaller now, but as you rightly point out she is very agile and fit, and i dont suppose from now to full maturity, that she will put she will put on much more weight ?????........i feel happier about my mini-rot now !!!

[Judi W]

The Rottweiler standard stresses correctness with proportion of the primary import. Heigth and weight do not take precidence. In other words, quality is not governed by the pound. We're not selling apples. As I stated, I have a top of standard bitch that at 7 1/2 clears the jumps with lots of room to spare, so yes, a large dog or bitch can work, but you are putting stress on the front (landings) if you allow them to get too heavy.

My big concern is youngsters who are heavied up to mature adult weight. I see these dogs in the ring, and the sad thing is after they turn 3 most disappear off the face of the earth. Their backs bounce up and down when they move and they tend to fall apart early. Please do not ask your youngsters to resemble a 4 or 5 year old. Let them mature naturally and what will be will be. I don't expect any of mine to be fully developed until 4 years of age.