Jango is growing at a mad speed! When he was at the vet for shots on April 21st, he weighed 24 lbs. One month prior, he weighed 12.5 lbs, so he nearly doubled his weight in one month! When we weighed him yesterday, he weighed a whopping 41 lbs! Forty one pounds at 14 weeks... crazy!
The breeder reached out to the litter's new owners via Facebook to get updates yesterday. All of the other pups were between 24 and 28 lbs. Jango has definitely superceded our expectations for his size and is the giant of his litter. Eric joked that we should give him his old name (from the breeder) back; "Tank".
Sidenote: As of the last two weeks, Jango has had a very upset G.I. tract (you can gather what this means!). His diet hadn't changed, he didn't eat anything odd... After those things were ruled out, we then assumed it was anxiety. After we ruled that out as a possibility, as the days progressed, we decided he needed to see the vet. They did poo samples and checked him out. The tests came back fine. The vet said, "His paws are like giant clubs." And, she informed us that sometimes when pups are growing SO rapidly, their body just gets out of whack and needs time to adapt. He's now taking probiotics, eating probiotic yogurt, and I made him some healthy cookies to give his diet more bulk. We're shocked that he's gaining weight so rapidly, considering his tummy issues.
Eric and I have both done some research online for how large Jango will get. An estimation using the information Eric read online shows Jango will be 102 lbs. The online calculator I punched numbers into shows that he could be 153 lbs! Ha! I certainly hope he doesn't get quite that large; dog food will to be awfully expensive!
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