Our Skippy is 9.5 weeks old and currently lives just up the street at my neighbor's house with his doggy mama. He comes over to our house for several hours a day and loves playing with his toys and taking naps here--especially between my feet.
My neighbor came with me yesterday to Skippy's first vet and first shot appointment. He now weighs two pounds and did well with his shot, they clipped his toenails, and gave some drops for the yeast in his ears. (My breeder likes to wait until 9 weeks for the first shots so that the puppy can be a bit bigger before being immunized.)
The vet said she thought Skippy was ready to live with us fulltime. Later, in talking with my neighbor, she said that she thought he could come home with us fulltime at the end of this week or next week--so at either almost ten weeks or almost eleven weeks. (We prefer to bring him home on a Friday so that my husband can be of more help with nighttime issues.)
Any thoughts? We're in a bit of a unique situation in that the breeder and the mama dog live just a couple houses away and Skippy has been spending hours a day with us (although has not spent the night) for a couple of weeks now.