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Gonna run this thread for the duration of his stay. That's approximately one entire year. And I'll update at the start of each week. Let's see how this pup grows.
This is week 1 with me. He is currently 14 weeks. Born 22/05/25.
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15 weeks approx 5cm grown on the hip
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16 weeks can't see any change tbh.
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17 weeks
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4 months + 7 days (born May 22nd)
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Quintin is 4 and a half months old
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Not quite 5 months old
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5 months 13 days
Tail is filling out. Ruffles* are coming in. No sign of the baffles**
*(my nickname for neck folds)
**(my nickname for the long tufts of fur which appear down the back legs for aerodynamics)
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5 months 20 days
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5 months 27 days
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7½ months
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8 months 4 days old
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8 months 11 days
You can see he's all muscle. He nearly pulled me into a pond this morning.
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8 months 25 days
1 month ago he was on 300g per day, increased to 360g then. It was increased to 400g/day on Tuesday.
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Quentin turned 9 months old yesterday.
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9 months 9 days old
This was chaos this morning gonna post all the outtakes by way of explanation after. This was the best I could manage. Dog was up from 6.07 this morning, he's a handful rn.
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10 months & 1 day old
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10 months 8 days old
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10 months 16 days old
Unfortunately Quentin has been sick and definitely off form since his last scare. I'm taking him to the vets today for a follow up visit. He seems to be having a dietary problem which we're trying to get to the bottom of.
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10 months 22 days
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10 months 29 days
Moulting lost the curly mane running down his spine.
11 months 5 days
I'm currently treating double* infections both ears with chanear from a previous treatment cycle (31/03/26). Also applying a leave on moisturiser dog mousse to all paws. Bloods and fecal results due Friday. Vomited Saturday 6.30 just before pm feed. After this now eating large amount of grass clippings. Nutraflora every pm feed switched from canigest 17/4.
Minimum duties, no freeruns.
*cyta cocci bacterial + yeast
It's too early for any results with the noises. It'll take weeks for any benefit there, I think.
I'm afraid Quentin hasn't improved health-wise. Vet is thinking it's dietary. I spent conservatively 7 hours over the weekend weeding out all the dandelions in my garden (I left large chunks of it to wild, so there were a lot), to stop him eating those. He's now eating dirt, because of course he is.
Fecal sample and bloods to be sent to lab tomorrow.
His routine is now heavily reduced
In short, I don't know. I think they will try to continue training him once we've got on top of whatever the problem is. My job is to get him through his neutering at this stage. But that won't go ahead until he's fit.
Sounds like hard work. I how Quentin doesn't have that type of thing in his future.
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