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Originally Posted by Britster  I haven't seen the Yorkie episode, but honestly? I am always happy to see pups exposed to new things, situations, kids, people. I would rather get a dog from a breeder who socializes extensively rather than shelters them from the world for 12 weeks. I am not saying to be irresponsible and bring the pups to a dog park, or anything like that. But I don't think all breeders who give pups away at 10 weeks are bad or irresponsible and that is a pretty blanket statement to make.
In Jackson's case, I am so glad I got him at 9 weeks and not 12. He did come from a BYB and he was never exposed to anything other than the woman's small Baltimore City townhouse and basement. I was happy to begin socializing and helping him explore the world sooner rather than later. He was also large, already 5lbs at that age. |
But a responsible way to introduce them to kids is for the kids to be sitting not picking them up where if they fall they could break something or get hurt. It worked out for you and Jackson but in a lot of cases it doesn't and the dogs have socialization and bitting problems. Also a breeder who is letting pups go young has probably skipped a lot of other important things that should be done to insure there doing best by the pups and the breed. We had a big parvo break out in my mom county to the point the Amish could not bring things to the farmers market just in case it came on there stuff because they had lots of pups that ended up with parvo and in that situation it could be dangerous to expose a puppy to that and it's even more dangerous for small bred pups because they are so small.