You're making a VERY general statement here and it's not really correct. While I agree that 8 weeks is more desirable, I brought home my female boxer at 6 weeks old......I've had ZERO problems with her. And I brought my male boxer home at 7 weeks old......again ZERO problems with him. So you might not want to generalize like that
Were they your only dog at the time when you got them? If we don't generalize should we always assume that every case is the exception to the rule?You're making a VERY general statement here and it's not really correct. While I agree that 8 weeks is more desirable, I brought home my female boxer at 6 weeks old......I've had ZERO problems with her. And I brought my male boxer home at 7 weeks old......again ZERO problems with him. So you might not want to generalize like that
My female dog was my only dog at the time I got her.
Generalizing and using scare tactics is just not a good way to educate in my opinion. Have YOU had dogs that were taken younger than 8 weeks that turned out to bite? Where is this RULE you speak of written in stone? So you are stating that dogs don't learn bite inhibition from their littermates?My female dog was my only dog at the time I got her.
Exception to what rule? That every dog bites if it's taken from it's mother earlier than 8 weeks old? That's ridiculous.
My parents have a dog that we got from the shelter that was 8 weeks old when we got her......and she had been at the shelter for all of a couple weeks at least.....and she was a confiscation case because she was left outside by herself, no food, no water, no shelter, no interaction....and she is now 15.5 years old and has never even thought about biting a soul.....
And I could go on and on about the NUMEROUS dogs that I've known that were taken from the mother dog around 6 weeks old and have never had any problems so this "rule" annoys me.
Never once did I say that so don't go putting words in my mouth.
As I already said, I agree that 8 weeks is ideal for getting a puppy......my point is that I don't think it's always detrimental like people make it out to be to get them younger sometimes. If you train the dog right, I believe most dogs can/will turn out just fine.In general it is detrimental, so we have to hope he is the exception. Is that what you are saying?Never once did I say that so don't go putting words in my mouth.
You're not even making sense anymore. Stop putting words in my mouth.
Flat out, my point is that I don't think it's the end of the world to get a pup at less than 8 weeks....period. Think of all the hundreds of dogs in shelters all over the country that people adopt every single day and have no clue what age they left their mothers......yet we don't hear about all those dogs biting, do we? Come on.......stop trying to get an argument going. We agree to disagree and my point has been proven several times over. Let it go. Who said it was the end of the world?You're not even making sense anymore. Stop putting words in my mouth.
You are nothing more than someone who has too much time on their hands to argue on the internet with strangers....kind of sad. I stated my opinion and my reasons for it. Agree to disagree with me if you wish....just let it go already. Geesh.
