When is the best time to take a puppy?

Question

When should the puppy be taken away from it's mother to go to a new home? I know it needs to wait until it has moved on to solid food, but is there a beneficial period for learning giving it reason to stay with it's mother for longer amount of time?

Answer 1

6 weeks is the best time. That is when they stop nursing on their mother. If you take them early enough they will be fine without their brothers and sisters. If you take them too late they will whimper and day and night because they were so use to playing with their brothers and sisters. You want to teach your puppy whose boss and what you say, he needs to do it with a snap of a finger. They learn better when they are alot younger.

Answer 2

I never let a puppy go before 8 weeks, I usually let them go at 9 or 10.
The reason for this is because at ages 7 and 8 weeks the puppy learns the most of it's socializing skills. There is a huge difference in the confidence the puppy has at 7 weeks vs. 10 weeks.
Puppies shouldn't be completely weaned until about 7 weeks.
Also, the puppy should have its first round of distemper shots before going to a new home.

Answer 3

Congratulations on your new puppy! To teach the puppy to obey commands you must be consistent. Always use the same phrase or word and always speak in the same tone of voice. Speak in your normal voice. Do not yell. Yelling frightens the puppy and will not teach him/her a thing. You may think that it does, because just as an example say the puppy has done something that he/she isn't supposed to do and you become frustrated with Puppy and you yell "No". The puppy will move away from you and you may think that you have taught him/her something and this won't happen again. Well, you would be half right. You have taught the puppy something by yelling at her/him and that is to be afraid of you because the puppy won't understand why you're yelling. Please speak in a normal voice or a soft voice when you speak to the puppy. In order to teach the puppy the command "No" first decided what the puppy can do and what the puppy isn't supposed to do. Some of this is obvious to you and your family. Some may not be if you have children such as you don't want the puppy on the furniture because it (the furniture) will get dirty and it will get dog hair. After you establish with your family what is O.K. for the puppy to do and what is not O.K., then everyone should use the same word or words to teach the puppy. Puppys learn by repetition. Just keep at it and pretty soon you will have a nice well behaved puppy. Also, please do not hit the puppy--even with a rolled up newspaper. People say that if you do this the puppy or the dog will not associate it with you but this is not true. The puppy can see who is holding that newspaper. If you want to discipline the puppy you should not hit or yell. I had a puppy that I crate trained and when she would not obey me after many times, then I would put her in her crate for what is called a "time out." I would not put her in the crate and then put her in a room by herself--she would have felt abandoned. Instead I put the crate in the room with me and I sat and talked to her until she calmed down and then I immediately let her out. You may try this. As to teaching the puppy not to bite, and not to bark-- puppys bark--this is normal but to teach her to stop barking, just speak in your normal voice and tell her "No" or "Be quite" or "Hush" or something like that. As far as teacher her not to bite, first be sure that the person is not teasing the dog. Biting is one of the ways that dogs and puppys have of defending themselves. If the person had not teased the puppy, just speak in your normal voice to the puppy and tell him/her "No" or "The postman is our friend" or something along these lines. This will take awhile, but dogs are smart. Keep at it as I said earlier and pretty soon you will have a well-mannered puppy. I almost missed the last part of your question. Since the puppy is white some names might be Snowball Frosty (male) Also you should make a list of names that you like and names that suit the puppy. Take a few days and watch the puppy and you will notice the puppy's personality and you may want to make a name from a characteristic that he/she has. For instance, I had a mixed breed terrier. The name she had when I first got her was totally inappropriate. I made a list of names that I liked and I watched the puppy and I noticed that she walked like a lady and held her head just like a lady and so my new puppy became Lady.

Answer 4

Most breeders will take away the pup at 8 weeks. I have read a lot of different articles about this and through my own experiance breeding I found it was better for the puppies socially to wait until they were 12 weeks old. It give them a chance to learn how to sociallize with their littermates and such.

Answer 5

Puppies should remain with the mother until they are at least 8 weeks old, sometimes older for toy breed puppies. This gives the mother enough time to teach the puppies how to "be a dog". Never buy a puppy from a breeder willing to sell you a pup younger than 8 weeks- they are only in it for the money.

Answer 6

Puppies should be socialized from two weeks on. They are ready at the earliest 8 weeks. People will tell you at 6 weeks but the pup still has much to learn from mom litter mates, eating and such. At eight weeks they go again to vet and have another check up. I keep my pups in my house with my family. I don't let them go until 9 weeks.

Answer 7

I have always started weaning my puppies at about 4 weeks. I start them on formula and soft food. They should still be allowed to nurse on their mother at this point.

At about 6 to 7 weeks old, they should no longer be allowed to nurse on their mother and I mix hard food and the softened food (hard food soaked in water or watered down formula) together.

So, by the time that they are 8 weeks old, they should be able to go to a new home. I would never allow my puppies to go anywhere before this. State law here in Florida does not allow you to sell a puppy before it is eight weeks old. However, if it is not weaned properly, even eight weeks old may be too young.

Answer 8

I would give the puppy at least 8 weeks

Answer 9

8 weeks. Even if a puppy is weaned at 6 weeks, it needs those extra 2 weeks to learn important skills from it's mom. The reason so many puppies bite is because they never learned bite inhibition from their mom's and littermates because they were removed from the litter too soon.

Answer 10

the age for you to take a pup from the mother is at 6 weeks but you don't want to sell til the litter is 8 weeks. when you start to wean the litter you want to start at 3 weeks but leaving the litter still nursing and then keep doing that until the litter is 6 weeks and then you can take them off mom for good. now that they are off mom start feeding them the solid food about 3-4 times a day and then at 8 weeks you can start to sell them to new homes. when you do that you want to make sure that the new owners know what you are feeding them and what not to do and what you can do. i breed golden retrievers and i wean on solids when the pups are 3 weeks but they are still on mom then when they reach 6 weeks they are off mom and on the solids for good. so with that in mind, take the pups away from mom at 6 weeks and then sell them at 8 weeks. you need to make sure that you get teir shots at 5 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks, 16 weeks, and 20 weeks with rabies. you need to do this because you will have a hard time selling your puppies if this is not done. also make sure that you get a vet check done on them(only need to take 1 pup in) if the vet checks one pup and if he finds anyting wrong with that one he will treat the whole litter. well good luck