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I think 14 weeks and older is better. So many breeders I talked with before getting Jilly didn't let any of their dogs go before 14 weeks, some of course at 6 months. I got Jilly at age 4 1/2 months and oh, she was so tiny, but she was a runt and even at that age seemed so terribly fragile and tiny. Even at that older age because she was so small and had so many health issues, we spent much of her first year in the vet's office with her feeling miserable or in very scary condition with vomiting and bloody and so very thin. I cannot imagine bringing her home tinier and younger than she was. I was scared enough as it was but if I'd gotten her at half of that age for some strange reason, such as her mother died & her littermates all gone or the breeder was having severe health problems and couldn't care for her, I probably would have needed to hire a vet to live at the house to calm my fears and let me sleep nights. And the breeder herself told me it was so often touch-and-go with Jilly until she was 10 weeks, with her staying at the vet more than once to save her life, that taking her, even at 4 1/2 months, was a great risk. But I wanted to try to give this tiny sweet little creature as good a life as possible once she seemed stable enough to change homes. She didn't really start to thrive or put on some weight until she passed the 18 month mark in life and still she had lifelong problems of one sort or another, due to her tiny size the vets all said.