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Originally Posted by YorkieMother  Here is my stand on this.... pups in there own yard if clean and safe can be out as soon as they can walk and should be. Litter of ten BRTS out and about at soon as they could follow me. Before first shots. People in to visit as soon as they had first shots and just before with care.
Now have had several pups including the new tiny one in class on two sets of shots.
I have had pups out and about in public in a front pack as soon as they have one set of shots.
You need to have your pup see and be seen and touch smell and feel 100 people, places, dogs, other animals and sounds and smells by 18 weeks.
The risk of getting a puppy hood illness is way less then a dog locked up for its full set of shots being undersoicalized and live a really rough life time of fear cause of it. We in this household because of someone else not soicalizing well enough a pup live with massive fear issuses and anxiety now for 9 years in one very speical little yorkie girl.
We plan never to do that again as we have had to work through fear issuse with a big Black russain terrier boy that the breeder never exposed to childern and enough strange sounds that it almost got him put down.
Soical skills can be done from your arms but get them out and get the learning.
JL |
During the 70s I was taught by 3 professional trainers in 3 disciplines. Obedience, Field, and Service ( today called Service/ Therapy). All 3 believed that it was critical to expose puppies to all kinds of people,places and things. Starting at 6 weeks thru 12weeks. And that professional training classes were most effective, if taught from week 8 thru week 16. Of course today we don't even have puppy classes until after this time is passed and immunization is compleat. Much of what was taught then was from the books by David Weston
Dog Training: The Gentle Modern Method and his 2nd book
Dog Problems The Gentle Modern Cure.
This is another reason we should be very selective in who the breeder is. Insight to this
golden period of learning should be used to lay the foundation of a happy, secure, and balanced dog. Good breeders spend time socializing and handling puppies. IMO breeders should read:
Super Dogs are Made Not Born by Joyce O'Kelly This make sense because, almost all dogs that are given away or killed is because of behavior problems. So it is vital for them to have the best start in life possible.