Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Quote: Angela Burrell
I did not read all of the comments in this thread but I wanted to chime in that I raised a (rescue) litter containing four pups and I can NOT believe how much work it is, nothing you read or people tell you can prepare you for how much work is involved. ....
This is unanimous among everyone I know (in the rescue world) who has ever done it.
Melissa Thom Webboard User Reg: 12-04-2007
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With four 7 week olds right now I must agree. It is a load and a half of work, cleaning, feeding, washing, never all asleep at the same time, one just crawled under the recliner as the other one sinks it's puppy teeth into the top of my foot. It's made a quick convert of me from oh I'm going to miss them when they're gone to I'm going to miss them but it'll be a relief when it's down to the one I am keeping.
I would wait and pass on the pup if it were me. Sanity can only handle so much.
Don't forget the socializing a breeder should do! New surfaces, sounds, smells, other animals (cats), kids, leash, collar, car rides, nail clipping etc... all this should be done before a new puppy goes to its home. Even with only 3 or 4 pups it is exhausting. I remember even getting tired while thinking about what I was going to do with the pups that day... and THEN to have to devote time to housebreaking, socializing, and training another pup a few weeks older, plus the adult dogs (plus husband and kids if you have it) - never mind sleeping....
My litter of just four pups never slept once they hit about two weeks old. There was always at least one destroying something, eating something, or peeing somewhere....
You will have a lot of fun with your baby dobes but would it be fair to your new sport pup for you to be so busy? Of course it can be done, the question is do you really want all that work.
Oh... and we want to see pictures when the puppies are born!!!!
I had a litter of rescue pups one time and while I gained a whole new respect for breeders and those who do more rescue pups, I will never have another litter as long as I live.
Granted it was a litter of 15, and sweet Loki came from that litter..but it was more work, and destruction and messes and just more of everything than I ever want to do again.
We have had 3 pups in 4 years, with the youngest, Yote, being exactly a year, and even now he is a lot of work and needs nearly constant supervision and is just in general a handful. As I type he is "couch fishing", swiping his paws as hard and as fast as he can to try and fish out whatever he can out from under the couch, so that he can then shred whatever he might find
He is high drive, and hard, and somewhat dominant and is more work than any other pup I have ever had. But the challenge is worth it, and I love him to pieces.
that said I never could have raised him properly and had a litter of pups!
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Re: To get that pup or not to get that pup
[Re: Angela Burrell ]
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