I can't believe how much bigger they get!

[DogPaddle]

I'm looking at Zaphod's bed, the one we used when he first came home, it fits in a milk crate. He used to be able to lie out in it. Now he couldn't get much more than his head in the old bed. :o
I can't believe he was that small. He must have weighed around 3kgs, now he weighs around 26 kgs. :o
The shelter must have picked him up (wanderind alone in some residential area) at 36 to 40 days old. Way to young to be wandering anywhere, I still wonder how that happened.

I wonder if the effect is even more extreme with larger breed dogs. What weight was you dog when you brought him/her home as a pup and what is its' weight now.

[Malamum]

When we bought Indy home at 8 weeks old he was approx 8kg, at 15 months he now weighs 49kg.

[Horsefeathers!]

Gosh, the one that stuns me the most is my Pit-ish, Penny. She weighs exactly 50 lbs, but when she first came here at only a few weeks of age, I was able to put her in a [u]small[/u] cat carrier AND put a tiny little litter box in one end of it as a potty area. She was that tiny. I used to have to sleep with her on my chest because she would cry all night (ok, not the best training method, but geez, a puppy THAT tiny... I didn't have the heart.... :oops: ). I still have that crate and I look at Penny and... wow. She's not an enormous dog, or even really large, but it's hard to even imagine she was that tiny. :o

[Angelboddy]

Nostalgia weighed almost 4 pounds and now she weighs 54 pounds. :o

[sheltielover]

Licky was almost 4 lbs when I got her...now she is over 70 lbs.

Honey was 8 lbs when I got her.....now she is 50 lbs :oops:

I look at their puppy pics and their old collars and it amazes me how big they got.

[mouseatthebusstop]

I do not know her wieght but the first time I held Gladis she just fitted in my hands she now weighs 45 lbs

[stacer126]

We brought Colby home at 10 pounds and now she weighs 33.8, she used to fit in my hand.

[Peng1zrule]

Sandy was full grown. Buddy was six months old...he was only a few pounds from his adult weight. India, too. She gained only ten pounds since I got her. Gypsy was around four months old...she must've weighed the same amount of pounds. She was as long as a soda can from her shoulder to the base of her tail. Calliope was smaller than some of my shoes. She could fit, shoulder to tail, in my hand. her feet were the size of quarters. Now she's not even thirty pounds, but it takes two arms to lift her, when I could first stuff her into my jacket pocket and go. Fang was sixty-six pounds when we got him as a pound puppy. He was all bones. Age is taking it's toll--at one time he was over seventy pounds, now he's only sixty five pounds again.

[Guest Anonymous]

Zoey was 9 pounds when we brought her home, now she's 80 pounds :o

Cody was 14 pounds when he came home with me and now he's 48 pounds !!!

[midori115]

when I brought Oscar home this past April, he was just 6 pounds -- a tiny bit longer than my shoe.

Last week he was 43 pounds -- he's about 6 months old now. and still so cute.