Well, I don't agree with breeding the three pound female but with my hubby and i being in the business of breeding beagles for over thirty years, I din't even question the the four week thing everyone is in such an uproar about. Some of the sites we sell on ask,"age of puppy at this time". Even if it doesn't, we always put the age because that is when we are ready to take deposits. Sometimes we will say, 'ready to go" such and such a date and sometimes not. It is understood in the profession that beagle puppies go nowhere until they are six weeks old, have had first shots and wormed. They of course, can't fly until eight weeks old. Hardly anyone feels the need to say, "when will they be ready"? Knowing this, I kind of felt like the question was a LITTLE rude too. She could have asked, "when will these puppies be ready to go"? That would have been much nicer. |