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Question
hi,i have a wonderful pup and my brother does too,and we would like to know how big does a lab and chow mix grow?

Answer
That is hard to say.  If you know how big the parents were, you can expect the puppies to be near their size at a year.  By 5 months, growth levels off and likely they will have 80-90 % of their adult size   Even that doesn't hold sometimes.  The breed standards don't mean a whole lot, but call for parents to be about 19-22 inches at the shoulder, but I know many Labs are much bigger.