this is my 46 days old GSD puppy?

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He is adorable! He does look like a purebred, plush coated GSD. Possibly a long coat, but I think he's a plush coat. He's a bit small for his age right now, but that could change. He should get to be the size of his parents. Good luck with him!...Show more

Ask the breeder you got him from about the size of the parents to get an idea about the future size of your puppy.

While you are at contacting the breeder you can also ask the breeder why he gave the puppy to a buyer before the puppy was 8 weeks old and whether you can bring the puppy back when he reached the proper age....Show more

● "This is my 46 days old GSD puppy?"

I believe you, but that doesn't ASK us anything, yet you put it where your main question is supposed to be.
You actually wanted to ask FOUR questions, but you put all of them right at the end, and didn't even think of the fourth one until you wrote an update. And NONE of them is worth asking, [Shailaja] - they are all questions you should KNOW the answers to yourself from (1) the resources I've previously SEVERAL times told you to add to your browser's Bookmarks or Favorites, and from (2) doing the PROPER research before you accepted him.

And as you are NOT an experienced trainer & owner you should NOT have a pup younger than 7 weeks old. No QUALITY breeder would have let a 6 weeks pup go to an inexperienced pet-seeker.

Learn that the photos that show "breed type" are taken with the dog STANDING facing one edge of the frame and with its tail towards the opposite frame. That way we can SEE the outline, angulations, proportions, pigmentation and coat-pattern. All your photos show is "baby cuteness" (but adult GSDs are not supposed to be "cute") and that his eyes are probably going to be yellow instead of the proper dark brown. But at his age eye-colour is still affected by the blue "sun-screen" layer that all mammalian babies are born with. In photo 5207 there is a slight suggestion of "standing Frenched" (meaning with his feet pointing out to the sides like a ballet dancer does, instead of straight ahead), but in photo 5269 they look correctly straight-in-front.

● "is he long coat sorts?"

Yes. The GSD used to have 5 coat types but that was quickly reduced to the current 3 :

·SH· (StockHaar) - the preferred working coat: Harsh, flat-lying, with adult guard-hairs about 55mm/2inches long over the shoulders. Has a tight under-coat. No way is he going to be an SH.

·LSH· (LangStockHaar) - an acceptable working coat: Softish, with adult guard-hairs about 100mm/4 inches long over the shoulders, and an undercoat that is not quite waterproof but is shower-proof. That is my guess as to what he'll end up with. Which means that you will need to do a LOT of brushing to stop the hairs knotting, and whenever he gets out where the ground is wet you will be very busy afterwards sponging the water (usually MUDDY water!) out of his coat then towelling him to dry his coat. I hope you have what the Yanks call a "mud room" to do that in.

·LH· (LangHaar) - the banned long-coat. The hairs are silky-soft (when clean...) and about 150mm/6 inches long on adults. They then blow in the breeze - they are so thin & weak that they part along the spine even when dry. Rain goes straight through the silky hairs to soak the skin. They are banned because they do NOT have a weatherproof undercoat - some have no undercoat worth noticing. He COULD become an LH, but you won't know for sure until he is 5± months old.

Click the slide-show at the bottom of http://lesp90.wix.com/lorelei-gsd-kennels#!kamee/c1xk9 - Phal was sold at 7-8 weeks old as an LSH, but his owner brought him back a couple of weeks later to show us that his coat had become an SH; and Phal did quite well at the few shows he was able to attend.

Click the slide-show at the bottom of http://lesp90.wix.com/lorelei-gsd-kennels#!rella/c15hq - Nita was an adult LSH.

● "how big would he grow?"

Oh come ON!
WE don't know his parents, his older siblings, his grandparents, his greatgrandparents. Nor can WE ask his breeder how tall & heavy each of those was.
If your pup is WELL-bred, he has to end up in the height range 59-to-66cm (23¼-to-26 inches), preferably 60-to-65cm - and in the weight range 30-to-40kg (60-to-88 lbs)

● "is he purebred?"

Presumably NOT, seeing as you have to ASK the Y!A kids. Some time ago you claimed that you were getting a pup from a very well-known breeder. But you have not told me the pup's pedigree - presumably he doesn't HAVE one. And you had to ASK here whether he was pure-bred, so obviously he has no registration with the KCI.

Although many rescue-group volunteers and every con-artist BYBreeder will tell you that the pooch you're looking at is "pure-bred", the original meaning of "purebred" is that ALL the ancestors performed the TASKS of that breed. And once KCs were formed, it meant "both its parents are registered as members of that breed".
India is possibly the only nation left whose KC will register pooches that merely LOOK LIKE that breed - pooches that no-one knows who the parents were. (The USA has the Con.KC and others catering to the disreputable puppy-millers so that the puppy-millers can supply "papers" with their pups.)
All genuine GSDs will have a pedigree in which every line traces back to the German sheep-dogs registered as Deutsche Schäferhunds by Max von Stephanitz from 1899 to about WW1.

● "he weighs 3.8 Kgs. is it fine?"

I keep TELLING you to Add the web-address of the reference group below to your browser. Had you sensibly DONE SO, http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/The_GSD_Source/links/all/Size___Weight_001198649681 is the part you should have visited instead of asking that question.
NO-ONE is such a fanatic that they weigh pups every week. but after looking at those charts you will KNOW that 3.8 kg at his age is NOT "fine", NOT "okay".
At 1 month old he should have been close to 4 kg / 9 lbs. You state that he is now half-way to 2 months old, by which time he should be close to 9 kg /20 lbs. So at present he should be about DOUBLE the weight you stated.
So the possibilities are:
(1) Your scales are shockingly wrong.
(2) He's only 3½ weeks old (but pups that young don't sit straight).
(3) He's a pituitary dwarf (see https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/The_GSD_Source/links/all/Diseases_001198817153/Dwarfism_001242563447 )
(4) He is a 6 weeks old cross-breed between a GSD and a much smaller pooch.

You declined to send me your REAL e-address for me to send full-length e-mails to you, back when you hoped I would sell you a pup.
You declined to join my discussion group as per /question/index?qid=20140513050112AAP1M1x (I haven't deleted the prepared answer that Y!A wouldn't save - but must do so soon. No way am I breaking it up into the little "notes" that can be sent via stingy Y!A "mail".) Instead, you made various ignorant comments.

Then you impatiently went ahead and bought this pup - obviously ignoring all the advice I and others had given you.
You paid your money, you made your choice. LIVE WITH IT.

I just hope the pup can live with it. If he is a pituitary dwarf he needs you to be giving him the protective medication starting now and continuing for the rest of his life; and he needs you to protect his one-&-only coat, because pituitary dwarfs do not grow any adult coats, just their Puppy-coat. They end up bald, if they don't die first from liver & kidney failure. Our first pituitary dwarfs (born 1981) were raised until they were old enough to be weaned & sold, then we gave them to our veterinary university for research into dwarfism. The next one was euthanased.

Add
http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/The_GSD/Source/
to your browser, so that you can easily look up all sorts of information about dogs, especially GSDs.

To discuss GSDs, join some groups such as
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/GSD_Friendly/info
The people in them KNOW about GSDs. Plus you can include actual photos in your posts.

Except that she didn't ANSWER any of your 4 questions, I don't know why [Natalie] got 3 TDs.

King Les The Lofty - first pup in 1950; GSD breeder & trainer as of 1968...Show more