a friend of my sold a puppy at 9 week old,with contact,a refund back at 48 hour and 7 days,in full,the puppy has been at the new home for 3week ,the owner wants to return it back today to the breeder with a full refund,beacuse the puppy is ok with the adults and a 13 year old child ,but the big but is it growls and bit the 6 year old,this is why the owner want to return the puppy of 13 weeks,and have a full refund,i except it is only playing with the 6 year old but trying to be dominan over the child. i said no refund untill the breeder has taken it to a behaviours.or dog trainer to see what its like .i saw the whole litter 3 times and not one of them had a beaviour problem.happy go luckly puppys.what should she do.

up date on puppy,its back with breeder and the owner said the reason why it is returned beacuse of the six year child not beacuse of the puppy behaviour,the breeder give back £200.but the owner didnot get the second injection done,i hope all turns out well for this little thing,so it just shows you after questioning the owners,and you are happy with them to have one of your puppies,this is what sometime happen,is it worth breeding to get all this problems,i have only had one litter in 14 years.it makes me wander if to do it again?

Yes this is a problem, no matter how good you think the prospective home is going to be you still get this.

A fellow breeder had back a male pup of this age recently from alovely older couple. the wife had become frightened of the pup because of playbiting. th breeder fully expercted to have to be very firm with him, and put him in his place, but has found him no trouble. he did tend to snatch, but a little training and he is fine, as regard the mouthing, she told him no sternly, and has been a lot more hands on with playing with him, and he has learnt to be quite gentle!

The breeder has decided to keep him now!

Glad the pup is back with the breeder, Briedog. I think that the £200 is fair - there will need to be a certain expenditure on behaviourists, I suppose, but my gut feeling is that the new owners were just ignorant of dog behaviour (in the naieve sense of the word) I dare say all will be fine, and the pup is quite young enough for no permanent damage to be done.

This sort of thing happens however carefully we screen new owners, and we should be prepared for it. Still, you can get upset by it .

Jo

What a horrid situation. Must admit it's not happened to me but my reaction as I read your post was to think that whatever the reason, I wouldn't want one of mine to be where it wasn't wanted, and so regardless of the rights or wrongs I think that I would get it back whatever of cost. Glad to se the pup's now back home. I'm sure that with minimal re-training, all will be fine.

Phew, I thought I was getting a puppy back then (only joking). Someone at the dog training I go to has just had a pointer returned and she told the people that they won't get their money back until the pup has been resold.

Depends on the agreement between the parties. I would much rather give them their money back and take the puppy back than have them resell it (which would be contrary to what my contract states they can do) to someone that I would not have checked out, etc. It all comes down to whether a breeder has had the foresight to set aside money for such contingency.

the agreement on the contact was not to be sold onto third parties,and has the owner had said in the end it was the girl fault, the puppy was still in good health.but it did show you that the adult did not care or they would of had it second injection,but i still would take back any of my puppy that were in a situation that the owners could not keep,but the breeder did what she felt was rigth at the time by given back some refund,the puppy has settle back down with mum and sister,

NO DIANNE YOU NOT GETTING GOLLIE BACK SHE GREAT FUN,WILL SEND SOME PHOTO SOON SHE GROWING UP FAST,STANDS VERY SQUARE,RETRIEVEING WELL,SHE JUST LOOKS LIKE AN OLD TEDDY BEAR.

Hi - We have an 11 week old puppy who chews and jumps everything and everybody. It is however noticebly worse with a 6 year old than adults or a 10 year old. He seems to think the 6 year old is simply another dog - something on his level to do with him what he wants! We wouldn't dream of trying to return him - he just needs to learn what is acceptable and what is not. This is hard work and I think that any breeder is in a no win situation - take the puppy back because the people who have bought him are obviously unsuitable owners who aren't willing to make the effort or refuse and leave him with people who don't want him because he's not the fluffy cuddly bundle they imagined. Well, our dog is not the fluffy bundle of joy we imagined but we love him to bits and look forward to training him to be an acceptable member of society although that leads me to my next query - See under travel!

i hope you have great time training your puppy.what breed his he,you just got to be firm but kind with him and your six year old,just rember he is puppy and he needs his play time as well as his training,

Hi I had a bit of trouble with my 6 year old and a new pup she loves dogs and would not leave it alone (he never growled or snarled just moved away) she was devistated when he prefered the 9 year old who is take or leave if with him, but now he is 5 months it has all settled down, he did tend to bite her and my partner more than me and my other daughter but that has also stopped. Glad to hear the pup is back with the breeder at least she can rehome it to a suitable home.

Luv
Jane

well i have a new SBT puppy, well not new he has been her for the last 6 weeks and well he is only six week's old :) and we have becided to keep a dog out of the litter, but it seems to be that we are keeping the loud one, he dont stop, the other puppies give up when they are tired, so who can i take him back to LOL,
What i do with people that want to bring back a puppy is give them all but the deposit back and as i ask for a large deposit(£150) they tend to think twise, i have not had a puppy reterened yet but (out of 4 litters) and non have been sold on, but i do try to give a lot of help (as i know you all do) and this seam to work for me.
Bobby

How do you know non have been sold on

i KNow that non have been sold on as i keep in tuch with the owners a lot, a few dog have been sold in the local area and so we see them out and about and for the others we wright and phone and i try to pop in and see them now and again(6 months), we did have a lot of truble with one but*h but after a while it was sorted so that was Ok but i was all ready to have her back, but i think that i am quite lucky as to date i have only had small litters and so it is easy to keep a in tuch with them, the largest litter being 4.
Bobby