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. :)

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!