Best Age To Take Puppy Home - Is That 6, 8 or 12 Weeks?

Best Age To Take Puppy Home - Is That 6, 8 or 12 Weeks?

In this video, we explain what is the best time to take a puppy home... and which answers the following questions as well.

What Is the Best Age to Send Puppies to Their New Homes?
When Should You Bring Your New Puppy Home?
can you take a puppy home at 6 weeks?
Are 12 weeks too old to get a puppy?
How long should a puppy stay with its mother?

There is a general saying that between six and eight weeks is the best age—right in the middle of the socialization period. There is a general consensus that six weeks is too young because it interrupts the puppy’s socialization to other dogs by removing him from the litter. At seven weeks old a puppy has already formed his personality. Some experts say that exactly forty-nine days of age is the perfect moment for a puppy to leave his nest.

A puppy taken home at eight to twelve weeks has the best chance of fitting right into the new human family he is joining.

Puppy’s Age at Homecoming

SEVEN- TO TWELVE-WEEK-OLD PUPPY (DELICATE BABY STAGE)

Advantages:
Adorable ball of fluff
Has no bad habits, is a blank slate for you to fill
You can watch her grow up
Easily introduced into your life and to the people/other animals in it

Disadvantages:
No way to predict her final personality and looks
Everything goes in the mouth—lots of destruction
Needs constant vigilance, correction & protection from other dogs and children
Housebreaking hell: bladder or bowel control for only a few hours

TWELVE-WEEK AND OLDER PUPPY (FRUSTR ATING TEENAGER)

Advantages:
Housebreaking easier, greater physical control
You can see what he’ll eventually look like
Less fragile than the younger puppy, can exercise and play more fully
May have had some training so should be easier for you to train

Disadvantages:
No longer the cute stage may even be going through a gangly phase
Physically gawky, bounding around clumsily, knocking into things
A teenager now, the dog can be emotionally flighty, insecure

Leadership issues: testing you; rebelliousness may begin
If he’s been raised at the breeder’s, he may have “kennel syndrome” (deep fear of
everything new: people, objects, noises)

EIGHT MONTHS AND OLDER (MATURE ADULT)

Advantages:
Probably housebroken, with some training
Looks and personality are set: you know what you’re getting

Disadvantages:
More set in her ways, may not be flexible
You don’t know her past and how it affected her
It will take time to change Bad habits and behavior

By sixteen weeks it is already a more difficult transition, and eight weeks is considered the prime time

a puppy has the best chance of becoming a well-adjusted adult dog at this age.

During this time any good breeder knows the importance of handling the puppies frequently, showing them that contact with humans is a pleasurable event.

These four weeks are usually a puppy’s first weeks in her new home.

Stay home and let her continue to play with you, your family and friends, and whatever dogs you already have that are the puppy’s new pack.

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