GoldenGirl85 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 In december we rescued an ACD cross (Kelpie or Koolie) when we adopted him we were told he was 5 months old. We've noticed in the last 6 months that he hasn't grown a bit since we got him, he weight has been stable apart from a bit of weight loss when we brought him home, he hasn't gotten any taller either, when we got him he could just fit under Lexi's belly, and he is still the same height now We've started thinking that maybe he was older than they thought he was when we got him, does it seem right that a dog of this size should finish growing at 5 months old? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancinbcs Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Height wise they can stop growing anywhere from 6-18 months but it is usually around 10-12 months. I have definitely seen BCs that have stopped at 6 months though. They are often very big babies that look like they will be huge and then they just stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Got a photo? he sounds cute :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGirl85 Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 Is there any way of finding out how old he is? according to the RSPCA he shouldn't be 1 until July Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGirl85 Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 Here is a pic I took a few weeks ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 :) he's very fine boned , it seems ..but hard to judge his size/shape in that pic Lovely markings on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGirl85 Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 He is very fine, weighs about 14.5kg, its hard to get photos of him because he never stops moving lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 :D I can understand that problem!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staffyluv Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I think it's hard to tell once they get to about 12 months old.. The pound told us our staffy boy was 12 months old and when the vet checked him out, he said no way... His testicles hadn't dropped and his canine teeth were down all the way, so we estimated he was actually only about 6 months old. The same with a kelpie cross foster guy we had, the pound said he was just 12 months but the vet thought he was much older, so we changed his estimated age to 18 months.. Your guy is gorgeous. Maybe he was older than thought to be as he hasn't grown much while you have had him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenWei Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Hard to tell... something you may not of checked, but did he have all of his adult teeth when you got him? Some adult teeth don't come in until after 5 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenWei Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Also, do u have any pics of him from when u first brought him home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddick Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 He is most definightly Heeler but the mix could be the hard part to pick out. We had a Heeler/Koolie mix and as far as we knoew he took on the Koolie temperment. This was that he was happy just being with himself, no matter what we had done to get him to join us. He stands at about the 50cm mark now at 1 year old and his weight is around the 24 to 25 kilo mark. We think he is at his full height now but we also think he has got a little more filling out to go. Just done some checking and Murphy is at the height and weight for the standard. And he is 1 year old but is slow to really develop. He is always gettinginto trouble. but believe me when he is grown up you will notice. Thing will only have to be said once and he will do it right away. Our last heeler was so good that we forget this boy is still growing up. So don't push to hard let him have his puppyhoon to a degree that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGirl85 Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 Nope didn't check his teeth, I don't have many pics of him at all, let me check what I've got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGirl85 Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 Nope, only head shots...mostly while sleeping :laugh: This is the one that the RSPCA had on his profile (Dec 2011) Last week I have got a video of him that a friend put on my fb...but I have no idea how to post it on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenWei Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Any idea how old that pic was from the RSPCA - ie. How long had he been in care? He has a full set of bottom teeth... but whether they are baby or adult I don't know, maybe someone else could guess that. At 5 months I would expect a mixture of baby and adult teeth, but his seem to be all the one size. His legs do seem longer now though - but it could be the camera angle, he appears to be quite puppyish in the RSPCA photo - his pasterns have straightened up too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGirl85 Posted June 3, 2012 Author Share Posted June 3, 2012 They only had him for a few days, he still had his stitches in from his desexing when we got him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddick Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 The RSPCA picture it looks to me that he has got his adult teeth but it really is hard to see. Though I am thinking that they might only be that 1 month area, so I am thinking by this picture he might have been about the 6 to 8 month old area. But I could very well be wrong to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riddick Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Still having the stitches makes no difference to telling his age as they do this to all dogs before rehousing them. Well they do here anyway. So to me this isn't telling us much more at all sorry. If we put our boys together there would be a big difference in their actuall body sizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenWei Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I tend to agree Riddick, my guess was about 6 or 7 months. But if they are all infact baby teeth, he'd only be around 3 maybe 4 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenWei Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Think GG means that they just got him in and de-sexed straight away, so they wouldn't of had him long. I asked how long they had him because if the photo was a month or two old then it wouldn't help with trying to work out his age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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