Maltipoo full grown

In our figures, a dog in the toy size class has done almost all of its weight gain by about 10 months. After that the weekly gain drops below a quarter of a percent of adult weight, which is slow enough that you will not see it on the scales week to week.

Height finishes earlier than weight. The AKC puts small breeds at full size by 6 to 8 months, medium breeds at around 12 months, and giant breeds at 12 to 18 months, with some very large breeds taking up to 24.

Both parents are small, so a Maltipoo is always a small dog. The spread inside that comes from the Poodle side: a Toy Poodle parent keeps a Maltipoo under about 10 pounds, a Miniature Poodle parent pushes it toward 15 or 20.

Maltipoos are sold as "teacup" more often than most mixes. There is no teacup size. A dog advertised that way is a small Maltipoo, and breeding deliberately for very low weight is linked to health problems rather than to a recognized variety.

You will see Maltipoo puppies advertised as "teacup", "micro". None of those is a recognized variety in any registry.

The Chihuahua Club of America, writing about its own breed, lists “Teacup, Pocket Size, Tiny Toy, Miniature or Standard” as labels attached to the breed and calls them incorrect and misleading, used to make a puppy seem more valuable. The same reasoning applies wherever the words turn up.

A puppy sold under one of these labels grows up as an ordinary Maltipoo, usually at the light end of the range and sometimes not. The label tells you nothing useful about adult size. Your puppy's own weight does, which is what the calculator on this page uses.

The adult weight and height come from the sources below. The shape of the growth chart comes from our own calculation on the open data behind a published veterinary growth standard, described on the how we calculate page. The charts are estimates built from a breed range and a population curve, not measurements of this breed.