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crb · 10-20-2007, 05:43 PM

I can relate...we sold one of our pups to a friend of mine for her 18 year old daughter, at first I was a little reluctant about it but I knew the daughter and she would come over once a week to play with the puppy, she was really excited about it and asked a lot of questions. So I thought it was going to be alright. Well 3 months after they had him, the parents called me and asked if they could bring him back, turns out the daughter wasn't spending much time with him and he was literally tearing up the house, tearing the wall paper off the walls and such. The daughter would try to make him sleep with her, but if he started barking and wanted out she would let him out of her room and he would go sleep with the parents, so they were the ones letting him out in the middle of the night, she wasn't taking care of him.

Of course we took him back, he was nearing 6 months old at the time, and it was just 25 days after I had just lost my precious Baby Kosmo, so I was in no shape to care for a puppy again, even at almost 6 months I still looked at him as a puppy. He had never been crated and was not potty trained. The first night we had him we put him in a crate, he barked almost the whole night. He did this for about 4 days, then he realized that his barking was not going to get him what he wanted anymore. Now he is my sweet little Max who just turned 1 year old last week. He still has accidents every now and then, but he is a sweet boy and I couldn't imagine life without him.

So if I can do it you can too, you will just need some patience and give him a lot of loving, it sounds like he may not have gotten a lot of that from where he came.

Good Luck!

10-20-2007, 05:43 PM	#24
crb Luvin' 6 Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bryan/College Station, TX Posts: 1,606	Patience is the key I can relate...we sold one of our pups to a friend of mine for her 18 year old daughter, at first I was a little reluctant about it but I knew the daughter and she would come over once a week to play with the puppy, she was really excited about it and asked a lot of questions. So I thought it was going to be alright. Well 3 months after they had him, the parents called me and asked if they could bring him back, turns out the daughter wasn't spending much time with him and he was literally tearing up the house, tearing the wall paper off the walls and such. The daughter would try to make him sleep with her, but if he started barking and wanted out she would let him out of her room and he would go sleep with the parents, so they were the ones letting him out in the middle of the night, she wasn't taking care of him. Of course we took him back, he was nearing 6 months old at the time, and it was just 25 days after I had just lost my precious Baby Kosmo, so I was in no shape to care for a puppy again, even at almost 6 months I still looked at him as a puppy. He had never been crated and was not potty trained. The first night we had him we put him in a crate, he barked almost the whole night. He did this for about 4 days, then he realized that his barking was not going to get him what he wanted anymore. Now he is my sweet little Max who just turned 1 year old last week. He still has accidents every now and then, but he is a sweet boy and I couldn't imagine life without him. So if I can do it you can too, you will just need some patience and give him a lot of loving, it sounds like he may not have gotten a lot of that from where he came. Good Luck!