Wii-Fit Plus has a Pet Stats feature, evidently to help owners spot the onset of pet obesity. (Though really, it's the owners who overfeed their pets, so you'd think they'd have an inkling that their dog was turning into a porkchop without a video game to point it out.) Anyway, I'm using the feature to track Sam's growth, since it's getting a bit out of hand. As of today, Sam weighs 58 pounds!
A quick bit of math reveals that 58 lbs / 23.5 weeks = 2.5 pounds a week, or roughly 10 pounds a month. Since Labs reach their full size at around one or two years of age, I could easily have a 120-pound nutcase on my hands by next year. Sam's mom was 98 lbs and his dad was 120 lbs, so genetics are certainly in favor of this goofball reaching disastrous proportions. (And of course I picked one of the biggest pups of the litter...)
The odds are in favor of his outweighing me in the near future. All the more reason to keep up his training while I can still handle him!
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