[DBlain]

you are not wrong, in the two years I have been a member there have been lots of threads about people dropping a puppy because of how easily it can squirm, puppies seem to have the energy of a dog four times it's weight. I saw it first hand at a yorkie party I had. A seasoned yorkie owner was sitting on my kitchen chair holding someones very tiny puppy on her lap, the yorkie suddenly jumped out of her arms and landed on the hardwood floor. The puppy was OK, but talk about a wake up call. Tell your aunt it's just not her that you will not let hold your puppy it's just about everyone unless they are sitting on the floor or in the middle of the bed. Your aunt sounds a bit on the crabby side, but that is her problem not yours.

You need to protect puppies from themselves at that age, just like with human babies they know nothing and have no fears. Shortly after I got Lola who was four months old, I stood her on my kitchen counter so I could put her harness on. I just moved from end of the counter to the front, and I took my hands off her while I rounded the corner. In a nano second she walked off the counter and landed on my hardwood floor, she was OK, but I could not stop sobbing because I knew how we just dogged a bullet. Now she would never do that, she has some sense, but as a puppy she just did not know these things. Of course I never let go over her on a counter just in case.