My new yellow labrador puppy!!! *18-month Update pg 4, w/ photos*

[Riocotesei]

Make sure your Bo gets his shots. Parvo is going around lately, and you don't need (or ever want) that to happen.
Make sure he gets shots at 6 weeks, 9 weeks and 12 weeks and onward.
Good luck with your new baby, labs are great!

 

[wordgirl]

Thank you, everybody, for your happy comments!!! Bo is doing well - he slept pretty much without whining all night except when he had to go to the bathroom and when was STARVING in the morning.

He's sleeping under my chair right now.

We've got our first vet appt. today, so we'll get to see how much he weighs. He's pretty heavy.

Here's Bo drinking out of the baby pool.

 

[WriterofWords]

Yay for puppy breath! He's adorable,, congrats!! But get your dad a bed...

 

[Becky89*]

Gorgious puppy! He looks so happy outside drinking from the pool ! Congrats

 

[wordgirl]

Well, we just got back from the vet with a clean bill of health (apart from some roundworms that he'll be treated for - I think that's common in puppies). He's 12.6 pounds.

And only seven weeks old! He's a big boy.

I think the vet said that most lab puppies are usually 8-10lbs at eight weeks of age, but it didn't necessarily mean he was going to be huge. His mom is only 65lbs. He nearly slept through his distemper shot.

He was trying to fall asleep on the exam table until they offered him some treats.

 

[bock]

That's so CUTE! I have been wanting to get a third dog for a long time, and I LOVE labs! I hope you feed him good quality dog food, I recently discovered how HORRIBLE many dog foods can be for dogs. Have fun with you'r pup!

 

[Tala]

hehehe at that size you can weigh him with yourself holding him and then weigh yourself alone to figure out the difference, that is if you want to know how much you weigh too

Now when he's grown, you'll have to go to the vet to weigh him --- my yellow Lab mix weighs in at 82lbs. I got him at 4 years old and fairly well trained (he was a bird dog, probably a failure at it....so he was well-schooled) and I'm really glad that most of the hard work and heavy chewing phase was done for me, sometimes I still miss that adorable puppy stage!!!

Train him well while he's a manageable size, coz you DO NOT want an 80+lb super-hyper dog that you can't walk or manage.

 

[wordgirl]

Boaz is doing fantastic - he got his second distemper combo shot on Monday, so just one more of those and a rabies shot in a few weeks. He weighs twenty-five pounds. He's growing so fast. He's lost his puppy coat.

I was just looking at pictures, and he was so fuzzy and soft. He's still soft, but lab-soft.

When I first got him, he could hardly walk fifteen feet down the driveway without lying down. Now he takes a mile-long walk with me almost every morning. He sleeps through the night, from about ten to seven-thirty. I am SOOO happy and relieved. I was getting exhausted with that three-thirty A.M. potty run every night.

I love my boy!

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

Awww, you can see the adult he is going to be in his face

 

[Lorije1]

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Really? That's cool, because I do agility and obedience with my older dog through 4-H, too. Bo will, Lord-willing, be doing at least obedience next year - I'm not sure whether I'll try agility the first year.

Remember easy on the jumping for the first year at least.
I have 2 yellow labs and this pic made me want a 3rd!!! (kind of lol )
They have high high energy and will get destructive if bored - but they are generally VERY smart and loyal, eager to learn / please. About the 2nd or 3rd birthday you will have the best dog ever - until then you will have a 60lb 0r more puppy LOL