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Originally Posted by matese  I can understand needing to select one before seeing them.
I personally would not select the one that has the baby doll face, lets see what others opinions are on that.
I really hate to "rain on your parade" but I need to say this.
We all want our babies ASAP, the sooner the better.
This puppy will be 8 weeks old when you get him. He will be a wild child and a hard mouth nipper. It is best for a puppy to stay with momma and litter mate until they are 12 to 13 weeks old.
In this time momma teaches the babies that hard mouth nipping and wild rough house playing is unacceptable. Those 4 to 5 extra weeks with the momma is the training process.
For the breeder it's a lot more work to keep puppies those extra weeks.
A 12 / 13 week old puppy is a bit less wild then an 8 week old pup.
Just throwing this out to you.
I will say all of my puppies were 8 weeks old when I got them, that was wayyyyy before I joined YT and learned it is best to get them at 12 to 13 weeks old.
Me, I love the wild child puppies, it is a lot of work training the nipping at your heels out of them, and hard mouth nipping your hands.
Good luck in your selection, it is going to be a roll of the dice. |
Yes I totally understand on the 8 weeks. They'll be a day shy of 9 weeks the day I pick him up which is not ideal.
There has been a family emergency in the US and she has to leave as soon as she can, we have discussed all of the options and that's the only reason he's coming home that early. Otherwise we would run the risk of border crossing issues and quarantine and she doesn't know how long she will have to be there for. With all of the issues at the Canadian border regarding vaccines and testing the whole situation just sucks.
So no parade raining here, I'm not a fan of it, but it's the best of the options available.