Lab/Pit Bull Mixes size/weight ?

wrharlow

I was wondering if you have a Lab/Pit mix did you find them to be on the smaller side as a puppy?  My vet is telling me my dog is perfect for his age/weight but others are telling me he is thin/skinny and small.   He was a rescue so I don't know exactly how big his parents were. 

He is currently 4 months and 18lbs.  I know he doesn't have much fat on him but I think he looks good.  I also don't want him to grow sooo fast and have joint problems, as labs tend to get.  

LuvMyFurbaby

Since he is a rescue, are you absolutely certain he's a lab/pit mix? 

I fostered a (possibly) lab/pit mix, but when I took him in, he was 5-ish years old. He was . . . 50-60 lbs? My purebred lab is 85 pounds.  

IdigDirt

Pits can vary in size a lot. I think pits in the shelter are so mixed it is hard to say he is only a lab mix. I would trust the vet, everyone thinks I starve my lab mix but his vet says he is just lean. 

stephparks

my daisy is a lab/pit and she is 35lbs at about 7 months.

stephparks

I just saw your response to me in your other post, so i looked up daisy's vet records. She was around 20lbs at 4 months, so close to the same size as yours.

She's always been really little (she was 3.5lbs when we got her) and our vet always jokes that maybe she's really a pit/chihuahua mix.  

kcl22

My boy is almost a year old and is about 65 lbs. At 4 months i think he was around 25 lbs. He's very lean, thinner than the typical lab.

MrsNDM

Did the rescue see the parents by any chance to know for sure that's what he's mixed with? Rescues and shelters generally guess a mix exactly 25% of the time so there's a good chance he could be mixed with other things. Pit bulls also vary a lot in size, we have adults that range from 30lbs-90lbs at our shelter now so it's really hard to say what the norm is. I would just make sure he is healthy and at a good weight for his size, if ribs aren't showing, tailbone isn't protruding your vet is probably right that he's perfect.

**ZippityDoDa**

Rather than going by the weight you think your mix breed will be as an adult, I would go by how much weight they're carrying on their current bone structure. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but it does is my head

ARO1018

Roxie is a lab/pit/who knows mix. According to our vet records she was about 19 lbs at 4 months. She's almost 5 yrs now and hovers around 55 lbs. Not sure if that helps at all since we have no way of knowing her parents sizes or their breeds/mixes for sure. We're just going by the info the rescue gave us and from asking people who are knowledgeable about dogs to guess her mix. lol

Alyssa98

My lab/pit mix is 2 1/2 months old and 22 lbs,