Is this GSD puppy fine for his age?

Hello... I did receive your email message and I did reply to it regarding your lovely pup at the time.. check your messages.

However,

I honestly do not have the knowledge of GSD pups and especially with the range of coats there are. I do not even know the breed standard for shepherds so I honestly am not qualified to give an opinion on your pup at all.

He certainly looks a nicely put together pup and very solid but whether he's even pure or not and what quality he is I cannot tell you.

If he was a rottie I would be quite happy to give an opinion, but this is not my breed and I do not see enough young pups to give any judgements. Sorry.

Do hope all is going well.

So six weeks. That seems like an appropriate size.

Have you taken him to the vet? Especially so young he should go in for a vet checkup asap. They would also be able to answer any questions that may arise.

Not really sure why you have a puppy so young since a legit breeder wouldn't have rehomed till at the very least 8 weeks and preferably 10-12 weeks.

You should speak to the vet about having a puppy so young since training may be more involved for you. A puppy learns a lot while still being with the mother and litter mates up until those weeks whether behavioral conduct, housetraining instincts, and otherwise.

Also make sure to really read up on proper training techniques and think about puppy classes once he's had all his shots/registration.

I did reply to your message. I wonder why you did not receive it! It must be e glitchon Y/a`s.

But now the original question has been deleted. Your puppy looks like a typical long haired Gsd pup but without papers its impossible to be 100% sure he is pure bred.

There is no way of telling how big he will get at this stage.

I would stop worrying for now and wait to see how he develops over the next month or two.

Its me again:) yes his in the right size! Make sure you get him all the vaccinations. Also give him Multivitamins, Brewer Yeast, Glucosamine Treat, Fish Oil and Colostrum(Help Improve Immune System and builds more white cells to fight off bacteria and virus) Also do not, i say do not let him go out until his completed with all vaccination because most Black and tan breed gets Parvo Virus easily at a puppy age. Dont let your dog walk in the vet because floors have bacteria and virus, instead carry him. Until his grown then yes he can walk but after vet clean his paw and clean the table where the puppy will be getting his shots. Goodluck! My dog is asleep lol

● "Is this GSD puppy fine for his age?"

GEEZ, [Shailaja], WHEN will you start THINKING and supplying ADEQUATE information?

SURELY you have by now had enough useless "sugary" so-called answers (such as your impatient choice of Best Answer to /question/index?qid=20140... ) to your 33-so-far questions to realise that almost no-one in Y!A actually KNOWS what they're talking about?

And that the place to get INFORMED advice about GSDs is in groups that are dedicated to the breed?

And that the place to get INFORMED advice about HEALTH is at a clinic - a doctor's (for humans) or a vet's (for pets)?

● "is he ok for his age?"

GEEZ, kid! How about telling them that he is a puny 3.8 kg?

And as few of the Y!A kids are capable of converting that to Imperial weights, that that means he weighs less than 8½ lbs - whereas a GSD SHOULD be close to 4 kg/9 lbs when 1 month old, and close to 9 kg/20 lbs when 2 months old, so YOUR 6½ weeks pup weighs less than he should have 2½ weeks ago? He is just over HALF the weight of a typical GSD his age.

(Any reader who doubts that is welcome to click http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/The_GSD_Source/... in order to see the month-by-month average-weight charts for GSD pups. But [Shailaja has been too lazy to go look... Or too stupid to BELIEVE the figures that are scattered all over the Internet when you do a Search such as this one: https://www.google.co.nz/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=nueGU9LGMOb... ).

Your pics show little more than that he is a LangStockHaar with "puppy cuteness". Puppy photos of the Pomeranian-of-the-Year that my sister produced would show much the same - but no WAY is that Pomeranian typical of a GSD!

Nor have you bothered to show us his pedigree, his proud(?) breeder's registered kennel-name - indeed, you have asked the Y!A kids whether he is a "purebred".

● "does he have pituitary dwarfism"

GEEZ again, [Shailaja]!

Only a VET can determine that - but NOT by just looking at photos!

I know of only one genuine vet in Y!A - it is probably over a year since she had time to look in Y!A, but she is a member of both the groups I keep telling you to join as your first couple of GSD groups.

Your pup has the fluffy coat of the few pituitary dwarfs I have seen - but I'm pretty sure I have previously told you to look at the photos collected by clicking: https://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&site=imghp&t... which show that not all dwarf GSDs are fluffy. I hope you can tell that when the photo shows TWO GSDs, it is so that you can see how much smaller the dwarf is than its normal litter-mate.

Or is that all just too much like hard work for you to bother with? - do you actually PREFER misinformation from over-opinionated under-educated un-informed Y!A kids who couldn't even tell whether a pooch is a BSD, a DSD, a GSD or a Sarloos?

● "he has gotten his first shot of distemper and parvo he is also de wormed"

· Unless he is an orphan, the vaccination was a waste of time & money, as I've previously told you (but because you persist in proving yourself unwilling to WORK at learning, I couldn't be bothered going into the details of "antibodies", "titres", "passive immunity" versus "activity immunity", and the rate at which the active immune system becomes mature enough to store what it has "learned").

· The Worms folder in the Links section of the first of the groups I keep telling you about will show you that your "he is also de wormed" is untrue - I'll bet that you have been TOLD that he has had ONE dose of a vermifuge (a claim which may or may not be true, depending on who you got him from) - I'll bet you don't even know WHICH vermifuge he was given, and on WHAT DATE. Most vets cheerfully sell you the expensive broad-spectrum vermifuge that kills almost any type of worm. But they don't tell you about which worm the pup has, how long the life-cycle is and that you must KEEP dosing the pup before any egg swallowed just before that dosing becomes a worm mature enough to lay more eggs - nor do they tell you the ridiculously-cheap vermifuge that will get rid of that type of worm. I tell people to keep dosing until, twice in a row, there have been NO "broken rubber bands" or "ribbons" or "rice grains" in the pup's faeces during the 48 hours after the dose was given - and you MUST immediately pick up and dispose of each turd, so that Pup cannot eat them to get re-infected, and won't tread on the eggs after the turd has dissolved, thus getting the eggs on his pad, ready to be licked off when grooming himself - and once in his stomach the eggs hatch...

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/i...

The people in them KNOW about GSDs. Plus you can include actual photos in your posts.

[❤ even so ]: You are like the ignorant-of-developmental-stages politicians who, in certain backward places, set 8 weeks as the minimum LEGAL age to rehome pups. And like the ignorant-of-developmental-stages so-called "breeders" who won't re-home a pup before 12 weeks old.

None of THEM have the awareness to discover the information that was first made public by J.Paul Scott et-al in about 1950, and that should be on EVERY breeder's bookshelf in Clarence Pfaffenberger's "The New Knowledge of Dog Behaviour". The end of the confident-&-curious stage of puppy development - the ONE stage at which it learns EASILY - ends at 13 weeks old. Most pups need a week to "learn & trust" a new owner, so there is no time for owners of "late sale" pups to supply the many safe-&-fun (in PUP's opinion !) experiences it needs.

The IDEAL age to rehome a pup is while it is 7 through-9 weeks old. THAT allows it time to learn "dog signals" from its kennel-mates, and leaves time for an INFORMED buyer to do what's necessary before Pup reaches 13 weeks old. So [Shailaja]'s pup was bought a bit too young. The question is whether SHE is competent to rear that pup.

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