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Jen:
AT six weeks old the puppy should still be with it's mother! You were a
fool for giving a puppy as a gift. It hardly ever works out and quite
frankly, you made a poor choice by getting a puppy from a bad breeder-
she will have no end of behavioral issues. A pup will not be house
trained at 6 weeks. Maybe at 12 or 14 weeks at the earliest. The best
thing for this pup would be to take the pup back where you got it and be
done with it. The poor thing.
Verulam:
This is exactly why nobody should give a pet as a gift. If you'd wanted to do this, it would have been so much better to tell your friend, and go with her so SHE could pick out the puppy she liked. **
In any case 6 weeks is at least 2 weeks too young to have a puppy away from his breeder and siblings. He'll hardly have been fully weaned onto solids.
Apologise to your friend for putting her in this situation and take the puppy straight back to whoever let you have it in the first place. Any responsible breeder wouldn't have let him go to a home at this age, and wouldn't have sold it to you, when you aren't the person to be having him.
It is illegal in many places to sell at under 8 weeks, although sadly not in the UK - yet. And it should be.
Repeating questions can be seen as spamming btw.
** Sorry, looking at your previous question about this, it seems you did take your friend with you to pick out the puppy. In this case if she really can't cope with this (and she'd not be the first to realise what having a puppy really means and have 'baby blues), pick up the puppy and take it straight back to the breeder.
Charle:
Perhaps a new gift is in order - one of those potty training crates. It's a large crate with a seperate small area for the puppy's "den", and a larger area, with a puppy pad, for the puppy to use for training.
Not sure if repeated "puppy was too young at 6 weeks to be taken from her mother" posts, or "puppys are for life - not for christmas!" help. Sorry about those. Yes, your friend should have thought twice about what she asked for, for a gift - but she can overcome the housetraining issue, if she is willing.
Just an FYI - it was about 4 months that my dog was fully housetrained. He's almost a year and a half old at this point and hasn't had a single accident since. I used a crate, although it was a regular one and took him outside for regular, scheduled, potty breaks. I suggested the housetraining crate because the puppy is so young and tiny.
Gryph:
Take the dog back and dump the ungrateful friend. As well, dogs are a responsibility and should never be given as gifts at Christmas. For specifically this reason. Ungrateful spoiled brats who aren't happy with presents they get at Christmas.
People like that are not equipped emotionally to take care of a dog and are not prepared for the financial, and emotional commitment a dog needs.
Find a good for that puppy if your not prepared to keep the dog yourself, but for the dog's sake get it away from her if she doesn't like it. It needs guidance and training at that age and it's behavior will become nasty if it's owner hates it.
Tigril:
it's always a mistake to get a dog for somebody else. At the very least they should pick the dog.
It sounds your friend had no idea of the reality of looking after a dog, only a mental picture of an idealized dog and it sounds your friend is not mature enough to look after a real dog.
See if you can give the dog back to the breeder, if not you will need to rehome the dog yourself.
Lisa:
I wouldn't bother talking to her about this. I would apologize to her
for getting her a pet for Christmas, and I would return the dog ASAP.
My guess is she liked the idea of a dog, but where she never acted on it
herself understood the work that it takes and maybe wasn't as
interested as she sounds. The dog won't miraculously potty train itself
and your friend isn't going to miraculously start to care for the dog.
The sooner you get him back to where he came from the sooner he can be
trained and placed into the right home.
Grace:
That dog should be with its mom. Part of having a dog is potty training
them. You need to take the dog in and raise it yourself. Then, take it
to puppy classes....those are very helpful and you learn alot.
