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Originally Posted by fearby  As I said before two of my dogs I got at 6 weeks , border collie vet recond she was 4 and a half weeks she is now 11 years old and she is a sweetly a lovely kind caring girl the other my yorkie 15 weeks now and is a very well adjusted boy .i did have a rescue Chinese crested that was kept in a dog crate with her mom and siblings for 12 months and she was a really sad little thing she passed away last September aged 12 but she never knew how to play we tried everything to get her to play but she never got it and she didn't like people she wasn't socialised at all so I would go fr the young puppy any day |
What you would do & what is best for the puppy are 2 different things. You can go to the training forum & read for days about people asking for help because their pups are not learning well. Most of this goes back to the fact that the pup didn't learn the things from it's mother that it should have, because it was separated from her too soon. Removing the pup from the mother before she's taught it what only she can properly teach it can cause a myriad of training & socialization problems for the new owner. Not fair to the pup or the new owner IMO. No dog/puppy should be kept in small /confined quarters for a year, that is just cruelty & laziness on the breeders part & that in itself will cause it's own seperate problems, as you found out with your dog.