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Bella, Female Golden, is three months old today. I got an offer from my vet for Advantage Multi, if you buy a 6-pack you will receive one free tube. I wouldn't mind going ahead to stock up on this since I will be giving it to her every month anyway. I was just curious about how much golden's will weigh around 11-12 months old? She eats Blue Buffalo Large Breed Puppy food, and I am making sure not to overfeed her because I don't want to put any extra stress on her joints/hips.

The one I would need to buy the next time I went is 20.1-55 lbs, but I would hate to get it and have 1-2 tubes leftover because she outgrew that weight range. I have one to give her in the middle of this month so the package would not start being used until the middle of November.
 

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Where do you live? Maybe in the really cold months you could skip a month. I'm thinking maybe you wouldn't need it for Dec. or Jan.
I'm not very experienced in this so I could be way off base. Maybe someone else would know.
 

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Tucker was around 60-65 pounds between 11 and 12 months. He's now 14 months and is just over 70 pounds. We try to keep him as lean as possible.
 

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At 12 months, Eli was 76 lbs and Bailey was 69 lbs.
 

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We were at training class this week and the trainer told us our 9 month old is overweight. To me she looks tall, lean and lanky. She weighs 61 lbs. The trainer told me that because she is fine boned she should have the shape of a border collie. I was surprised. The trainer said she is a "4" and should be a "3". Has anyone been told anything like that? Not sure what all that means.
 

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A couple things...
to the OP, you can't go by the weights of the male dogs that are being supplied. They're bigger than the girls.
IF she's bred to standard, she will weigh between 55 and 65 pounds when full grown. By 11-12 months old, she'll be pretty well at her mature weight.
Ask your vet what would happen if got the smaller dose and she weighed too much. Can you buy one of the small tubes for a small dog to make up the difference? I believe the answer is yes because that's what they do for the dogs over 100 pounds, they just use more than one tube. So you could buy them, and then if she's over the weight, buy one of the smaller (cheaper) tubes.
For Kridg, the trainer is referring to the scale of dog bodies that goes from 1 to 5. A "3" is considered the ideal weight. A "4" is mildly to moderately overweight, and a "5" is obese. I would ask your vet his/her opinion. Some trainers like their dogs a bit more lean, especially if they do a lot of agility or field work with them.
 

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Its to hard to predict how much your pup will weigh.. males and females are going to differ in weight.
Kody is 82 pds at a year old and has pretty much been at this weight since he was 10 months old. He is just a big boy...nothing fat about him!
 
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