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Can anyone tell me how old this little guy is?
He's 6 lbs and supposedly 9 weeks old. Can that be right if he's supposed to be a German? No, we don't have papers just video and pictures of the parents. BTW he was severely emaciated when we picked him up, only weighing 4 pounds. He had no fat on him and very little muscle. We could feel every rib and vertebrae. He barely had enough energy to stand and walk around. The family we got him from werent very good animal care takers and he wasn't from a breeder. A guy's two pet rottweilers wound up breeding and that's how this little dude and his sister came to be. He also has giardia, that we are treating him for. He's gained 2 pounds in five days and keeps getting bigger. Is this normal for some rottweilers puppies to be this little at 9 weeks? Could he be a runt? I was thinking we were lied to and he's more around 6 weeks?
If you're wondering why we took him in the condition he was, well they didn't even have his mom with him anymore. He was staying at a different house from his mom. And he was seriously underweight and the people who had him didn't care, he had conjunctivitis/upper respiratory infection, told to use by a vet, and the people we got him from just shrugged and just told to "wipe his eyes, its no biggie" when we asked them about it. So, my boyfriend and I took him because we knew we would actually care for him.
All these pictures were taken March 30th 2021, except for the one with the pink blanket, that was the day we picked him up.
He's 6 lbs and supposedly 9 weeks old. Can that be right if he's supposed to be a German? No, we don't have papers just video and pictures of the parents. BTW he was severely emaciated when we picked him up, only weighing 4 pounds. He had no fat on him and very little muscle. We could feel every rib and vertebrae. He barely had enough energy to stand and walk around. The family we got him from werent very good animal care takers and he wasn't from a breeder. A guy's two pet rottweilers wound up breeding and that's how this little dude and his sister came to be. He also has giardia, that we are treating him for. He's gained 2 pounds in five days and keeps getting bigger. Is this normal for some rottweilers puppies to be this little at 9 weeks? Could he be a runt? I was thinking we were lied to and he's more around 6 weeks?
If you're wondering why we took him in the condition he was, well they didn't even have his mom with him anymore. He was staying at a different house from his mom. And he was seriously underweight and the people who had him didn't care, he had conjunctivitis/upper respiratory infection, told to use by a vet, and the people we got him from just shrugged and just told to "wipe his eyes, its no biggie" when we asked them about it. So, my boyfriend and I took him because we knew we would actually care for him.
All these pictures were taken March 30th 2021, except for the one with the pink blanket, that was the day we picked him up.
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