Best age to seperate - Page 9

Red Sable and all friends,

I have recently received 2 puppies from Czech aged 12 weeks, very nice puppies, got accustomed to the new environment very quickly in a couple days. I strongly believe 8 weeks old puppy is too young to ship abroad on a plane, 12 weeks would cope with the stress much better and would be better immuned.

then, but this is only an opinion and not backed up with experience, 8 weeks age as being best for a puppy to leave to a new home is not absolute fact, 8 weeks is weaning age, hence it is ok to leave but not necessarily best time.

I also think, spending more time with parents should be beneficial, simultaneous with spending time with people, owner and siblings.

I think all opinions presented here have value, needs of owners differ, deciding what puppy age suits each one may vary.

out of all presented opinions that of Hired Dog as a professional trainer stands out, though it might not be good for all.

for those who have more than one dog, a pack would and should be formed with owners rules and leadership, kenneling and tying should be last choice

Ibrahim, you think 8weeks is weaning age? If you intend to breed and raise pups, I suggest you wean earlier than 8 weeks. Good luck.

Correct me if I am mistaken

Weaning (language wise) means the age mother stops allowing the puppy to have milk from her.

Breeder starts giving wet or semi wet food to puppies round 4 weeks old, but puppy still feeds on mother's milk.

So 8 weeks is approx. last age mother lets puppies feed from her and is called weaning age, right or wrong?

Ibrahim

P.S: corrected round 8 weeks to round 4 weeks (was a typo)

Ideally, the pups should be weaned by the time they are five weeks old. Correct, begin feeding solid food (I feed raw red meat, course ground) at four weeks, offer water ...earlier if there is a very big litter (more pups than number of milk producing teets per pup) or if the mother is not able to produce adequate milk to keep pups in good flesh. Start offering water at three weeks. That's my recommendation, but do what you want. Eight weeks and still sucking on teets is byb style. My bitches are dried up by eight weeks. If a pup has strong nerves and healthy, being shipped at eight weeks is absolutely no problem for them. I have shipped pups at eight or ten weeks that have been in transit for fourteen hours and not so much as peed in their crate, come out bouncing like they have always been there.