Neutering your Poodle has health-related benefits such as lowering the risk of prostate issues and cancer. It also has behavioral benefits such as less aggressiveness and marking of territories. However, neutering can delay the closure of the growth plates affecting the growth of your Poodle in the future.
Spaying your Poodle reduces the risk of mammary cancer, pyometra, and increases life expectancy. Spaying needs the use of general anesthesia and major surgery which can cause complications in your Poodle. When Poodles reach the age of two years, they are fully grown and have attained their adult weight and height. At around the age of 18 months, they tend to show signs of emotional maturity. Most Poodles will reach their adult height or close to it when they are one year old.
However, they need full two years to fill up their chest and body frame. There are a few ways of knowing how big your Poodle will get when they are adults. If they look oversized next to their body and legs, probably they are still filling out and will be bigger as adults.
Typically, an adult female Poodle weighs around 40 to 50 pounds while an adult male Poodle weighs between 60 and 70 pounds. A fully grown poodle stands at a height of 15 inches from the ground to the withers. Standard Poodles have a height of between 18 and 24 inches. Weighing your Poodle puppy is essential in ensuring that they are maintaining a healthy weight.
It is recommended that you weigh your Poodle at least once per year but weighing them every six months will help you identify any health issues earlier on. Use your bathroom scale to find the weight of your Poodle.
First, step on the scale and write down your weight. Then, carry your Poodle, step on the scale, and record the number. To find the weight of your Poodle, subtract your weight from the total weight of your dog and you. Let your Poodle stand on a flat surface, preferably the ground or floor. Body Condition Score is a quantitative method used to measure body fat for pets.
There are two types of scales for knowing the BCS of your Poodle: 1 to 5 and 1 to 9. You can use palpation and visualization to assign a BCS score for your puppy. This is where the waistline and abdominal tuck are visible. The ribs are also easily palpable with only a thin layer of fat. The body shape of the toy poodle is similar to that of the miniature and standard poodle.
The only difference is height. Poodle puppies have a square appearance. The length is approximately similar to the height at the shoulder blades. As puppies, poodles are small in size, but as they grow older, their muscles start to show.
If you notice any body shape changes in your poodle, you should be concerned—as this could be a result of adding or reduction of weight. If you are not sure, take them to the vet for advice on what to do. As a puppy owner, you should know that genetics plays a key role in the growth of your pet.
Therefore, it is important to know the parents and grandparents of your poodle before adopting them. Knowing the ideal size and weight of the parents and grandparents will give you information on the size your puppy will be.
In case there are any changes in their growth you will know what to do. Print out the Poodle weight chart and keep it on hand.
To keep your poodle healthy and their coat curly, lush, and soft, you need to feed them a high-quality palatable diet. This is because poodles are prone to health conditions that can affect their appetite.
During their first year of life, young poodles thrive on dog food labeled for puppies. These foods contain the right percentage of proteins and fats needed for optimum growth. Older poodles who are 8 years and above, require less fat and protein but more carbohydrates to prevent health conditions such as obesity. Proper exercising for poodles will keep them in their right weight. The physical benefits of exercise for poodles include: maintenance of proper muscle tone, increase in bone strength, and can help prevent diseases such as diabetes and arthritis.
Physical activity can also improve the behavioral and social health of poodles in different ways. Exercise can help eliminate or reduce irritability or aggression, destructive behavior, excessive barking, and attention-seeking behavior. Happily, there is another way to tell. But it requires taking your Poodle to the veterinarian for X-rays. The growth plates are special sections of the leg bones located at the very top of each long bone. The only way to tell is to take X-rays that show this area of the bone.
However, your Poodle may still continue to increase in weight and fill out after the skeleton is fully formed and the growth plates have closed. At this point, you might be wondering what the big deal is about standard Poodle growth rates. Why is it so important to know exactly when your Poodle has finished growing?
Standard Poodles are incredible canine athletes and they love to run and jump and swim and stay active. But if you let your still-growing standard Poodle puppy start exercising intensely before those soft growth plates have closed, there is a very real chance the growth plates and the bones or joints will be damaged. Once the soft cartilage of the growth plates is damaged, there is no way to go in and repair it.
This can cause a domino effect to where the joints and soft tissues around that bone also become malformed, with lifelong health issues being the sad result. There is scientific research to support delaying spay or neuter surgery until the growth plates have hardened. This is because spaying or neutering your puppy too early also delays the closure of the growth plates. As Animal Muscle Release Therapy explains, when the closure of the growth plates is delayed, your Poodle may keep growing beyond what is normal for the breed.
Specifically, research has shown that spaying or neutering a puppy before that puppy has had their first birthday can cause a much taller adult puppy! This can cause both a malformed appearance in adulthood and also chronic physical health problems that may be treatable but are not curable. One of the most concerning such issues is hip, elbow, and shoulder dysplasia. This, of course, will vary from puppy to puppy.
However, I am posting some information that can help you to speculate all you wish as to how big any of my puppies will be At eight weeks we post the size. We strive to breed the AKC standard of a square: Proportion To insure the desirable squarely built appearance, the length of body measured from the breastbone to the point of the rump approximates the height from the highest point of the shoulders to the ground.
A Standard Poodle is over 15 inches.
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