Intoducing Sire to his pups..... - Page 1

When is it safe to introduce the pups to the sire?They live in the same household.Sire stays in same room with the mother,except he is in his crate when he is in there and mom does not growl at him as of yet. Would like your input.Thanks

no reason to do that, IMO.  Leave the mother alone with her pups, no added stress factors, keep other dogs including the sire separated completely.

molly

What I was getting at was when the pups are 5,6 wks of age,NOT now they are only a week old today.

Why do you want to introduce the pups to the sire?

Margaret N-J

I can't think of any reason to introduce the sire to his pups.  Not even one.

molly

Yes any ''meetings'' should not take place until they puppies are well into adolesence. And only then if the male is the type that could care less. Intact dominant males have certainly been known to kill puppies.. Whenever I hear that I say ''who the hell puts a puppy by a big intact male like that ??''

Any Adult male that would Kill his own puppies, or anyone elses puppies should not be bred. Stable minds - keep that in in our breed. A male dog that would kill a puppy would undoubtly kill other small animals- and that is an issue of mental stability or untrained unruly dogs.

I allow my male dogs to sniff and look at 2 week old puppies when I am clipping there nails, and giving them there first dewormers. I have German males, in the past I have had American males, and I have never seen a male dog get nasty or try to dominate any baby puppy.

When I show my litter of puppies Both the parents , the aunt's , and other larger puppies will be shown at the same time with the litter in an X pen. If I am keeping an puppy for breeding I may use my male as a baby sitter from 8 weeks - so that she is compleatly weaned from mom but not lonley. You need to know your male , but agian I would never breed a male dog that I could not trust with something of mine - like a puppy or child.

IMO
Whisper

PS- Let me add- A male dog that is excited is likley to jump on or trample a puppy - so be careful . Don't leave a male dog alone with a litter of puppies just because he could hurt there backs or legs on accident- ( not to say a bitch could not do the same thing if you get her excited).

I agree the reason should not be that the male will kill the puppies - I would not have a dog (male or female) in my program that would intentionally hurt a puppy - but still there is no good reason to introduce an adult male to a litter of baby puppies.  Just no reason to do that, whether he would hurt them or not.

molly

I did not say that they'' would''  kill them I said its not unheard of and male German Shepherd  dogs that would kill small animals is certainly not uncommon, predeliction for cats is common place and dominant males with dog aggressive behavior is not considered a reason not to breed  hell people even breed handler aggressive dogs . My males do not even acknowledge little puppies but they are big and powerful and it takes very little to hurt a puppy

My Theo makes a great surrogate mom & dad!, so far he's just an uncle, but he's having some of his own about March 1st.

My house is big, but if everyone wants to hang by my feet, they all have to get along, dog, cat, puppy, I just look at everyone and say "Hey, knock it off!" and they just give in........my shepherds do as I say, or "See Ya!!"

I breed for a stable temperament, don't have that, then you don't have a shepherd...



Below is Theo cleaning the lab pups butts, I think he thought they were his kids...






Below: Theo kissing Virgo von Ryan

Boy she was little, she's 2 1/2 yrs. old now!

Below: Rollie & Theo, 2 intact males...


Then below is Virgo, Rollie, Theo & Tessie, boy, I've gotta clear off my desk!