Maybe a fun little outing a a park near your home?
I personally do not invite people to my home until puppies are over 6 weeks old and I have received a reservation fee for a pup.
I have children and am protective of my home, children, and our private space. If people want to meet my dogs before that time they are welcome to meet with me at an event or at a public place.
When I explain my position my prospective puppy families' have been more than willing as most of them don't want relative strangers in their home either.
I think showing pups at 4 weeks old should be more of your concern. My pups don't even get their vaccine until they are 7-8 weeks old. If people want a pup from me and want to visit that early…they can go elsewhere….I won't put my pups in jeopardy like that. People need to get educated.
What if that person visited another kennel before yours (they will lie and say they won't, of course) and bring in God knows what??? Or they were in a pet store or worse…those undeveloped immune systems in those 4 week old pups are in danger!
No, NO, but heck no. They can see the dog in pictures. If they can't wait to see pups at 5 weeks and mom, let them go somewhere else. Not taking any chances. Too much invested.
I need to meet people in person first before I will consider them for one of my puppies, so yes, I do have people come while my bitches are pregnant up to about 1 or 2 weeks before she is due. However, they are not invited to my house until we have had extensive phone conversations and I am pretty sure they are someone I am interested in as a potential home. When they come for the in person interview they are never allowed inside the house, I meet them in the driveway and they are led around to the gate to my yard and meet selected dogs in my yard and exit through the gate when they leave. This meeting is more for me, not for them, I want to see how they interact with my dogs,if they have kids how they behave, etc. If I like them then after the puppies are born I will offer to accept a deposit from them. However, no one visits the puppies until they are 5 weeks old. Remember though, this is your bitch and your litter, you do not owe anyone a thing, do what you are comfortable with. If someone does not like it, thats their problem, do not give it a second thought.
These sound like very nice people. I offered an outing and offered them to meet the bitches mother. They were just fine with that. Now thinking maybe even an outing with the bitch might just be ok also as long as they had not visited another kennel?
Yes, I am with other. I don't like strangers tromping through the house. Getting all barking and we have so many Walmart greeters. And who wants to spend time cleaning before company comes? We all do it. Well I do. :)
These sound like very nice people. I offered an outing and offered them to meet the bitches mother. They were just fine with that. Now thinking maybe even an outing with the bitch might just be ok also as long as they had not visited another kennel?
Yes, I am with other. I don't like strangers tromping through the house. Getting all barking and we have so many Walmart greeters. And who wants to spend time cleaning before company comes? We all do it. Well I do. :)
No need to let them into your house, they can visit in the yard, I never let people into my house, everything is done outside in the yard, there is no reason they need to come into my house, also no puppy buyers are allowed here after puppies are born till the day they come to pick them up, not going to take a chance on them getting parvo
I agree, hold your ground..........I don't let them come while she is pregnant OR until they have had their first set of shots. Too much out there to warrant risking the health of your bitch or your litter!
