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My goodness it is a bad year for you!
What I remember of puppy growth was that each of my
dogs grew in stages, they gained weight, even looking a bit chubby, then all of
a sudden grew taller and looked very lean. Started to gain weight again ,
then another height spurt and leaned out again. Eventually everything
caught up and they were in balance. Each one of them gained some winter
weight but lost it in the spring before summer so maybe the crazy weather has
something to do with it too. Even now at ten, Jascha gains and loses about
7-8 pounds with the seasons.
Amy
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:07
PM
Subject: [pyrnet] Beginning to think 2002
is just NOT my year....
Okay...I am NOT having fun. So far this year,
Newman broke my finger and I had to have surgery to get the pin in, then I
caught the flu and it went to bronchitis and a sinus infection. I'm on my
third round of antibiotics and am STILL coughing my head off and blowing my
nose. Then my son, who is a Freshman at Trinity, fell down some steps and
cracked his head on the corner of a brick building, giving himself a
concussion and 17 stitches which merited a trip to the ER. THEN today I was
going over to Trinity to take said son to get some cold and flu medicine
because HE now has the flu, and as I was heading from the car to the stairs to
go down toward his dorm, (the sidewalk is EXTREMELY uneven there...it's like
two sidewalks pieced together and at places they match and at others, it's
like one of them is a good 2-3 inches above or below the other) I caught the
toe of my shoe on the overlap and took a literal noe-dive. HIT my nose (I'm
lucky I didn't break it or knock out my teeth) ruined my glasses frame and
scratched one lens up so badly I can't see out of it. I also tore up my knees,
bruised them badly (heck, they just got back to normal from when Newman broke
the finger!), and pulled a muscle in my back. The students who helped me up
were telling me they've seen several people fall there for the same
reason...it's a hazard!
I'm beginning to think I shouldn't be allowed
out on my own without a keeper.
Now...I have a question, and I hope it
doesn't cause WWIII again. Newman seems to be losing weight instead of gaining
it, as one would expect of a 10 1/2 month old pup. I've noticed he
hasn't been eating his food as well as he was, though his appetite seems GREAT
if you feed him a treat. He seems fine, otherwise, is just as playful, etc.,
but he went from 109 lbs to 106 lbs to 103 lbs in two months. My question is,
is this normal, or should I think of changing his food? Take him to the
vet? He was eating the food just fine, then suddenly seemed to not like
it. We're feeding him Professional Large Breed Puppy, Chicken & Rice
Formula.
Rhonda
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