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oh good! im glad. i thought maybe i had overstepped :)
but yes..i didn't tell her very much in my first message..just asked her to guess. then i filled her in after she guessed.
shes a wonderful lady and has lots of knowledge. if she guesses 12 weeks i would say its spot on.
Maybe he'll be a big boy..who knows.. both oliver(my last cavalier) and my cat meeko were told to be 'big boys' when they were little. they were. and i tell you those boys were so full of love it was rediculas :d
I bet he will be spoiled. EVeryone says maggie is spoiled rotton.. theyre right :D lol . again i cant wait! flood the picture form with photos of him growing...lord knows i have with maggie. people (espeiclaly on facebook) are probably like enough already.
but i have a 'disclosure' on my maggie album on facebook. You give a cute puppy to a photographer..expect a lot of photos..and im not sorry lol
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Just as a comparison, Jemima was born on 28 Nov 2012. She weighs 3kgs (6lb 9??). I don't know how tall she is, but she is a lot smaller than your beautiful boy!
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Just to throw my bit in too :) Teddy is now 13 weeks old and when we weighed him at the vets last Thursday, he was 3.7kg. He is long and leggy. I think your boy is utterly utterly beautiful, and I immediately wanted to give him a big love. He's gorgeous. Enjoy Enjoy Enjoy x x x
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Mine weighed about the same and we are starting to think that ours isn't purebred. :( Glad to see that we are not the only ones :)
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From your picture Ms Debz your little guy looks a bit like a long-hair dachshund - I'm really no expert though!
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Black and tans often do from some angles :lol: -- and I have heard breeders say they don't like smaller sized cavaliers in the show ring as they can look like longhaired dachshunds, especially some that also have shorter legs! :) I would however agree that this little one is probably a cross of some sort Ms Debz, at some point in his background -- very long and narrow nose. It's the dog that matters though and not the breed or mix! :D
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I'll have to check my records, but my Bosco is a big boy. I got him from a very respectable breeder at 3 months, and I think he was about 7-8 lbs then. He's now 1.5 years, and has been 20.5 lbs since the 1 year mark. I never expected such a "big" CKC, and he is not overweight, he's just big. I have no doubt about his breeding -- he is 100% CKC. I'll post pictures later.
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I met two breeders in my search and both of them had rather large males, most were between about 18 and 25lbs. Lady's dad was around 22lbs if I remember correctly. Lady's mom is around 17lbs, and at one year old Lady now weighs about 14.5lbs - she was the runt of the litter though.
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I was expecting a 10 -12 lb dog, and I wound up with a 20 lb bundle of love! Its a little "Scary" when he comes bounding towards me to jump on my lap! Yikes!
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A lot of the researchers into SM feel the larger cavaliers, with longer noses and less domed skulls, are the future of the breed. :)
Most males these days seem to be up around 20-22-ish lbs according to some of my friends who show and breed cavaliers. Many feel the need standard sized males even at the top of the standard, are a bit small.
10-12 pounds would have been under the US breed standard -- and no one should be breeding for extra small cavaliers -- so it's good to have ended up with a larger dog I think rather than extra small.:)
