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I think that they should rehome the dog for its own sake - it will only get worse as there is obviously hostility towards the puppy that will make him crave more attention. He's just a baby.
I have 2 dogs and would never leave either alone with mine or any children - although the dogs have never shown any aggresion. What so many people forget is at the end of the day they are animals and don't think like we do.
I'm quite sure this puppy was just playing but no one was monitoring this play and letting the puppy know its behaviour is not good.
I taught my children that if they wanted the game to stop with a puppy you have to turn away and ignore it - the more children scream,shout, roll on the floor the more the puppy thinks they are playing.
You just have to watch a litter of puppies playing to see they nip and bite each other - they yelp if it gets too rough and move away.

Very many breeders will say 12 weeks and give first vacs too.

Our breeder gave them at 8 for experienced dog owners and 9 for first timers.

8 weeks minimum. they learn vital behaviours and social skills in those last few weeks that can create problems later if it isn't allowed to happen. it really is a very important stage for the puppy.

How old are puppies meant to be when taken from their mother/ litter? (Never had a puppy, my dog is rescue dog so have no clue)

Yes - depressing and shocking but all too commonplace. I have a rescued puppy farm breeding bitch whose pups would be taken from her at 4/5 weeks old and sold on to stupid, uncaring and ill educated people. And then she would be mated again. And again. The conditions she endured were beyond belief.

I wonder if this is a similar situation.

6 weeks old? She bought home a 6 week old puppy?

There's no more words.

My Springer Spaniel jumped up and caught my DD1 just under her eye when she was very young. He had got out into the garden and I had not noticed. It marked her and I felt so full of guilt for so long afterwards. It was my fault not the dogs -yet I was an experienced owner. We let him go to a breeder who would assess then rehome him for us. She rang me that evening and told me he was so hyper, despite our best efforts with exercise, that we had done the right thing.

Dalmations are big, powerful dogs and hard to train. It sounds to me as though this dog is incompatible with the family and it is kinder all round to rehome him. It would be so unfair for him to be the cause of such dispute and inevitable scapegoating.

Ok. . . Apologies to those who feel this information is being drip friend. Like I said, I posted this for a friend (who is a work colleague. . So it's kinda being drip fed to me too!).

Just to confirm:

The DP bought her the puppy, he paid for it, they travelled to Arran together & bought it.

I'm unsure how much research was done into the breeder/ litter

It was bought on 10th Dec, the puppy was about 6 weeks old when she bought him, he's now 14 weeks (if these dates don't add up don't shoot the messenger. . This is only what I've been told!)

She wasn't in work this afternoon but will get an update & let you all know the outcome.

FWIW I agree with the majority, very sad situation for the puppy & despite her best attempts at walking/ puppy classes etc the choice of dog was probably not thought through as well as should have been.

and @ 5 1/2 week puppy being taken from it's mum and siblings! fucking idiots! both buyers and sellers.

"My advice is to the puppy. Leave the bastards! "

best post of the thread!

D0oinMeCleanin, it was Wildwood, Herne Common, Kent

Binary

Hopefully it will, once able

I agree this thread seems to be full of drip fed contradictions. My advice is to the puppy. Leave the bastards!

That would explain a lot of things, puppies need to stay with their mothers until 8 weeks old. This is where they start learning many important skills including bite inhibition. Removing them too early, especially to an inexperienced home almost always leads to behavior issues. This is why rescues prefer to put abandoned puppies in with other litters rather than hand rearing.

Sorry too, peace please. Carrot the foster pup said he wouldn't mind getting rid of the big black cat, it has scratched him and he wants something done now!

Thanks Ullena. They were cute looking but I still didn't want to get too close!

Off the point but I'd like to apologise to theodorakissess , as I said at the time I may have been mistaken , which I was , but I'm quite happy to admit when I'm wrong ! Thank you for being such a reasonable person in your responses!

I actually really hope this puppy goes to a breed rescue, as if all the info is correct, it was sold at 5 1/2 weeks old...

African wild dogs are an entirely different species of canidae. They are not related to domestic dogs. Thinks african wild dogs look very adorable and also terrifying

Yes it is massively unreasonable to get a puppy and then get rid of it because you cant be bothered to supervise your children around it. It actually makes me angry that people like that are even allowed to keep pets again.

Hey,

We unfortunately passed our puppy to family for a couple of weeks until we got settled, but she ended up staying up there as our Aunt really enjoyed having her, for us it worked out okay.

Just saying that peoplesay the dominance theory doesn't exist in dogs, which is the exact opposite to what we were told. That wild dogs do have a pack leader and they dominate the pack.

Battery I'm not sure what your point is. I've only seen African Wild Dogs at a zoo, but it was pretty obvious they wouldn't have much in common with my domestic dogs.