Have been reading discussion on purchaser wishing to return puppy because it was biting. Recently bought CKCS puppy. Have raised dogs before - been around corgis, border collies & cross breed. Never had children and puppy. Over reacted to normal mouthing behaviour of puppy to young daughter. Contacted breeder who offered to have her back (puppy not daughter !). Ashamed to say returned puppy. Everyone in family now very depressed and I feel v. guilty and silly. Have emailed breeder asking for 2nd chance - no reply - don't blame them. Short of going there and begging for pup back not much more I can do. Just wanted this to act as warning to others. Wish we had given it some time.
PS Have even offered to look for another puppy but daughters only want that puppy.
PPS We love dogs and did genuinely want one and the purchase was planned. Not a whim where we changed our minds.

Now I really have to say , no matter what anyone else says to you ..this post took guts!

To admit in public that the fault was yours and yours alone took some doing , and I take my hat off to you

I agree with Melody, not many people would have admitted to their mistake.

I hope you do get another puppy in the future, maybe wait until your daughter is older and less likely to over-react to the normal puppy behaviour. I have 3 children and a 15wk old Cocker puppy. If you talked to my 4 yr old you'd think the puppy was really nasty. She tells everyone that Holly keeps biting her and the others and that she's a horrible dog. Holly of course is just playing and I have yet to see any teeth marks on any of the children and there's certainly never been any blood. I don't tolerate any kind of biting and my 4yr old has taken to telling me the puppy has bitten her when she doesn't want to play any more.

Good luck,

Fiona

As it was me that posted about the puppy biting I 'm sure that I should reply to you.I too feel that you deserve a medal for your admission especially as you did not know what sort of feed back you were going to get.But where you differ immensly from those that wanted to return my pup ,is that you realise that you made a mistake and seem to genuinly sorry and willing to make ammends.I'm sure that if you were given a second chance you would take the neccessary steps to make sure that you could provide the best possible care and training for your pup ,something that poor Daisy's owners were not prepared to do.I wish you luck in trying to get your pup back and hope that you will not give up should you not be successful I too have a ckcs and they are a truly delightful little dog.

I have in the past returned a puppy to a family who gave him up to me (twice) because they were having problems with him. We did a lot of training together and eventually they were convinced that he was not nasty but a boisterous adolescent (it took Roger Mugford to convince them, I was telling them for free so it did not count <g>) They had him till they lost him of old age and have now taken on another adolescent male.

If you really want the pup back and your breeder still has the pup why not contact them again, say you would like to go to classes with her (providing you do of course) and see what the breeder says?

Most young children like the idea of a puppy but do not like the puppy itself - they are too active for them

Good luck

Christine