What Should I Weigh?

Hi just wondering about Sophie the pampered Shih Tzhu. She weighs in at 14 pounds. She is at the top of the chart for breed standard size. A big girl.
Any way I feed her a 1/2 cup wet and dry performatrin split into 2 meals a day. Plus wht she steals from Missie the poo and Pepper the cat. Little :evil: can eat a hundered miles an hour. The vet said she was a big shih tzhu and really healthy but the breeder said that she was fat. :eek:
Just wondering. Oh yes Sophia's cousin won best of breed for males at Westminster.

Look at the under belly, and the silhouette from above. There should be a curve before the hips (waist) and the belly should curve up from the ribs toward the hips. like this... (cruddy pic, but the best one I have to show the belly curve)

Shih Tzu's are between 9-16lbs even females, my male Jordie is 14.8 last he was at the Vet and he is 4.5 years old. He is not fat or large he looks small, I agree some are larger than others. I once had a shih tzu that was from the U.S and he was much larger than Jordie. You little girl seems normal to me, I would not worry too much about it she happy healthy that is all the matters and your Vet said she is ok so I'd be happy with that. :)

here is Jordie

Found this while I was researching the ideal weight for my dog:

http://www.iams.com/en_US/jhtmls/nutrition/sw_NutritionQuestions_qanswer.jhtml?li=en_US&sc=D&bc=I&pti=PN&qi=374#dog

Here are some from purina:
http://www.purina.ca/dogs/nutrition.asp?article=286
And a chart in color:
http://www.purina.ca/dogs/nutrition.asp?article=292

Looking at the links - the pictures of the overweight dogs - looks like Boon! She was quite heavy and her back looked pretty much flat - sometimes she looked like her legs were getting shorter! :)

I was glad to see your Shih tzhu picture. It looked a lot like Sophie only a little smaller. Thanks everyone. Now if I could cure her sound barrier breaking snoring LOL :p