hi all,
i have a 12 week old puppy, is she too young to go in a boarding kennel?

I definately wouldn't put a 12 week old pup into kennels. She's had enough stress etc losing her mum and siblings without having to move again into a kennel. Can nobody look after her for you if you really have to leave her
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Why not contact the breeder perhapes they could help.

Debbie

yes, in my opinion. I would stay away from a kennels until at least 6 months.

can you not leave her with a relative?

hth
chloe :)

I work in Kennels and 12wk is far too young! Even 6 Months is difficult.

All that training that you have been doing will go out of the window, and most of all they will be alone! I would be surprised if you could find a kennel to take them so young!

I would definatley suggest that you find a relative, friend or even better the breeder or alternativley dont go away :)

Roxanne

As a breeder I would want any puppy under 6 months back to stay with me rather than go in kennels. I might find it difficult to accomodate a male pup over this age if I knew my bitches were due in season, as mine asre family housedogs in a normal suburban home.

Certainly at 12 weeks I qwould be horrified if the owners were planning to kennel the puppy.

I amhaving one of mine back to stay in three weeks, and she will be 12 weeks then.

I'm not a breeder as such but have had a couple of litters and there is no way I would let one of my pups go into kennels, I've told the new owners if they have holiday arrangements I am quite happy to take them back while they are away............to the extent that one of my litter now won't be leaving me until she is 13 weeks because the new owners have booked their holiday 3 weeks after the pups leave,so I'll keep her until they return

I sold a puppy to a Stafford show judge (Bristol) who took the puppy at six weeks old, I bowed to his experience :( He decided to build kennel runs on the side of his house. The pup was placed in kennels, I am guessing at @ 12 weeks old. She stayed there some considerable time. When she came out and went into his newly built kennels they where annoyed at being woken up early every morning by the puppy who had picked up "bad habits". The poor thing had not been socialised, still a baby, she just picked up the early morning routine from a kennel full of other dogs.
They decided to put her with some friends of theirs... to cut a long story short, supposedly bit the child on the hand. People checked this out, all a bit dubious and she was pts before she was six months old... I only found this all out when he rang me two days after she had been pts.

Ged.

Ged
that is so sad :( :( :(
Poor puppy :(
Lesley
ps; is the judge still judging ? can you name him/her ( by e mail ?)

At 12 weeks old this is the time for socialising a puppy and on a personal level, bonding with the puppy and in a boarding kennel neither is going to happen. Sorry if I sound a bit hard about this but to me it seems like rather bad timing. Obviously unexpected things sometimes happen which mean that we really must go somewhere but if it is just a matter of a holiday then I think you need to get priorities sorted.

John

This definitely not a good idea. My pup is 15 weeks old, when she came to us and up to just recently she followed me everywhere, and bonded with me and the rest of the family during these very early weeks, and supervised and controlled socialisation was vital. I assume this question arises due to a holiday that was booked before you decided to buy a puppy. I think, should you even be able to find a kennel that will take such a young pup you will very much regret it. The pup will surely come home with some very bad habits. I'm sorry that you are in this position but if I were you I would either ask the breeder if she/he could look after the pup, or possibly a relative that has nothing else to do for the time you are away, as believe me at 12 weeks old a puppy takes up nearly all your time.
Bev