Random puppy question - Page 1

Hi Scarlet,

8 wks yes , more i should say no if more means 11 wks plus; even 10 wks & the breeder keeps the pup with other dogs it will become more dogs oriented.
6 wks to 8 wks as the bitch itself will 'throw' or 'send' the pup away, before 6 wks it learns the most important lessons from its mother for all its life.
A lot of india breeders sell pups at 4 wks which is very very bad for the pup & if its a new owner. I know a lot of reputed breeders here in india who do that owing to lack of knowledge or also the cost of maintainance goes high from 4 wks on, deworming, vaccines etc & hence it pinchs their pockets. Here in pedigree database too we have these breeders.
Hence the perfect time is 6 to 8 wks for the puppy development, also i could write much more what a breeder should do so the pups become socialized as well as have the best understanding of the world they will be exposed to.
This time frame is for all breeds,
God Bless

aviniti

 We've never let any pup go before 8 weeks (ok, one at just over 7 weeks but the new owner lives less than a mile from here and was bringing the pup back here every day while he went to work). They just seem to cross a maturity thing between 7-8 weeks that makes them more ready to face the world without mom and siblings. We have a breeder around here who traditionally lets their pups go to new homes around 6 1/2-7 weeks. We have had multiple pups from this kennel out here to our Schutzhund club and they all seem to be lacking in confidence, I can't say if it is the breeding or the age the pups are leaving, but on paper they are nice dogs so I'm putting it down to going to new home too early. Especially when they are going to homes with first time WL owners.
Annette

8 weeks is correct.  There is a crucial development stage between 6 and 8 weeks during which they learn a lot about just being dogs.  One of the things they learn during this time is that biting hurts and if you've worked with many rescues and/or shelter dogs, it's pretty easy to identify the ones who were removed from their litters too early and never got this lesson.  No responsible breeder lets his/her pups leave to their permanent homes before 8 weeks.  Even in the situation BoCRon descibes above, why not simply wait a week if the new owners can come by and see their pup every day anyway?

I think it varies from breed to breed.  I've known some breeds that do well if given up to 12 weeks imprinting with the mother.  In any case, I think under 8 weeks is too young.

Some breeders who sell under 8 weeks are actually breaking the law.

www.animallaw.info/articles/ovuspuppysaletable.htm

 Well, in the case of the pup we let go a few days early, the pup would have been 8 weeks on a Wednesday so we sent him with his new owners on the Sunday before. The week they were going to be 8 weeks was Thanksgiving week and most of the new pup buyers were trying to not have a brand new pup in the house on Thanksgiving day since they would either be away the whole day, or have a houseful of strangers that they couldn't watch full time. Since we had started to separate them at bed time since no one in the house was getting any sleep (it was a litter of ALL boys and they had all decided that rough housing was best at 3am). So we sent Jett home on the Sunday, and he came back every day to hang with mom and brothers, including Thanksgiving day. The couple that bought him had been visiting multiple times every week since they were born(the husband is one of the helpers in our Schutzhund club) and we had determined at around 5 weeks that this was the pup for them, so there was already an attachment there. They would come over and hang out, eat dinner and watch TV with us and their pup would follow them around the whole time, or just fall asleep in one of their laps. The rest of the litter (that we didn't keep) went to new owners the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving. 
Annette

My pups go to thair new homes at 8 and half weeks after they have thair 1st jabs I keep them for a few days after the jabs just to make sure that they have no ill effect  no pup should go before 8 weeks

scarlet akai  no just some of the puppys were a bit sleepy and not eating for a few hours but by next feed time they were all well eating as norm and playing about the reson I do keep the pups for a few extra days is I had a litter of persian kittens and got thair 1 st jabs and by the time a hour had past I had to go back to the vet they were ill they all survived but it took months they lost thair fur and one was bleeding from her nose every now and then we keept that one and still have her 16 years now I get nobivac 8 and 10 weeks for the pups and they are all good no side affects but a friend had sold a little female pup 8 weeks old the woman buyer took the pup for 1st jab and the next day the pup was ill went back to vet by this time the pup was blind and started having fits and sadly had to be given sleep the vet said this can happen with jabs but it was fairly rare I dont know what  make it was that was about 2 years ago I live in the uk