Hi, sorry to hijack this thread a while, but I have to disagree with the statement that feeding your pup lots of food will cause your pup to grow bigger compared to the siblings. When we feed more food, the pup will just grow fatter instead of 'bigger'. The actual size of the pup actually depends on his/her genes which come from the parents. Although the parents are a good gauge for the size of your pups, it doesn't mean that it's 100% fool-proof that the pups will be exactly the same size as the parents...we all know that each dog is different and so even inside a litter, the siblings don't grow to be exactly the same size.

If you limit the food intake too much, your pup will indeed be 'smaller', but it's not because of the size...it's more towards under nourishing the dog causing him/her to become stunted in growth. So, please don't under feed your pup. They need a lot of nutrition to grow. Size is actually very hard to control...even if you have both parents being small, there are still chances of their pups growing to be bigger sized than them. Furthermore, I don't think that we would buy the pups just because they are small...in my opinion, just enjoy the puppyhood when they're small, and let them grow naturally. Size shouldn't matter as much as the love and affection they're showering us with

It could be your friend's pup became too fat instead of being 'oversized' as you said, but then again I haven't seen the pup so I also can't say la What happened with me was that I still remember the lady who sold Scottie to me told me to feed less (up to the extent of counting how many kibbles to feed) when he was a pup to 'control his size: if feed less, sure will be small'. That's so wrong for me, coming from a Science background and knowing that how we are (size when we grow up) is not determined so much by food, but more of genes from our parents That's what I was trying to say

I miss hanging out with you guys and Autumn too...should go out one day!