While on the hunt for the neighbors dog that went missing we stumbled across this guy in a local kill shelter. He was an owner surrender due to being too timid, supposedly around 2.5 years old. He is also supposedly a Malamute/Lab mix but he's lucky if he weighs 40lbs. I got to wondering if perhaps the previous owners got in over their head with a puppy and then lied about its age thinking that would help it get adopted. I don't know how to tell if his growth plates are still open to know if he will get bigger and could really use some advice on how to check, or if anyone can tell anything from the only picture I have of him standing. He acts like a puppy and the timidness that the previous owner talked of is nowhere to be seen. We are thinking of taking him to potentially foster or maybe keep since we have a good setup to keep he and Kenzi separated, but if we do look to find him a new home it would be nice to have a better idea on if he will get bigger.

https://www.itsahuskything.com/t7278p480-conformation-a-realistic-look-at-sibes-and-their-faults


page 25. HuskyMom09 explains it really well.
But he looks like he could be full grown to me.

Wow, thanks for the info Elise! I thought our puppy might have been done growing, but he has two very prominent bumps still. Ah well, big puppy, here we come!

I vaguely remember reading that when it was first posted in that thread but had no idea where it was, so thanks. Hmm...if he really is as big as he's going to get that leads me to wonder what his mix actually is. I can plainly see the lab, but he can't be malamute if he's going to stay this small. He has such thick fur like the mal though.

It is possible for him to stay the size of a lab, my mom has a beagle border collie mix, and he is the size of the beagle with the color of a border collie

I don't guess I've ever seen a lab only weigh in at about 40 lbs. Most are 60+. My old male mutt had several large dogs mixed with him and then pitt bull and he totally took after the much smaller pitt, despite having st. bernard in him. A cutie is a cutie, though, whether large or small, and he's just too cute to get put down.