Boarding a puppy a week after getting them

[Anonymous]

I need to be out of town a week after I am schedule to pick up a new puppy. Is this an awful idea? The puppy can't stay at the breeder any longer but he would be boarded at a vets office with 24/7 staff. Horrible idea?

[Anonymous]

Yes that’s horrible

[Anonymous]

That is a horrible idea. Don’t do it. Change your plans.

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Could you have a pet sitter?

[Anonymous]

Yes horrible idea. You can’t get this puppy if they can’t stay with the breeder or at your house with someone else at a minimum. If your life also involved travel you can’t plan (didn’t you know about the puppy??) and no one who lives with you getting a puppy may not be in the cards at the moment.

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Can you ask the breeder to keep it longer.

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It isn't ideal to board a puppy until it has completed the puppy series of vaccinations and rabies. I am surprised a vet would agree to it. However, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. If you can swing it, a house sitter to stay with the puppy in your home would be better. I'd really worry about contagion boarding in a communal facility. I know it isn't the same thing, but both of my shelter pups came to me with a pretty nasty respiratory infection that they contracted in the shelter.

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Anonymous wrote:It isn't ideal to board a puppy until it has completed the puppy series of vaccinations and rabies. I am surprised a vet would agree to it. However, sometimes you have to do what you have to do. If you can swing it, a house sitter to stay with the puppy in your home would be better. I'd really worry about contagion boarding in a communal facility. I know it isn't the same thing, but both of my shelter pups came to me with a pretty nasty respiratory infection that they contracted in the shelter.

All of this. I don't board my healthy, vaccinated to max dog in communal facilities, I can't imagine boarding an unvaccinated puppy and am very surprised a vet would agree to it. Also, even if they agree, its a week of it's life basically in a cage during crucial bonding and socialization times. I'd get the breeder to keep it longer.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes horrible idea. You can’t get this puppy if they can’t stay with the breeder or at your house with someone else at a minimum. If your life also involved travel you can’t plan (didn’t you know about the puppy??) and no one who lives with you getting a puppy may not be in the cards at the moment.

I was on a waitlist for a puppy and someone didn't pick up their 12 week old puppy from the last litter so I got a call from the breeder and just said yes. If I don't take him I need to wait for a puppy.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes horrible idea. You can’t get this puppy if they can’t stay with the breeder or at your house with someone else at a minimum. If your life also involved travel you can’t plan (didn’t you know about the puppy??) and no one who lives with you getting a puppy may not be in the cards at the moment.

I was on a waitlist for a puppy and someone didn't pick up their 12 week old puppy from the last litter so I got a call from the breeder and just said yes. If I don't take him I need to wait for a puppy.

Is this a puppy mill? A proper breeder would be able to keep the puppy a little longer.

[Anonymous]

So the breeder is ok Selling you a puppy knowing you are going on travel and it’s potentially going to be boarded so soon after leaving its mother?
These breeders that keep churning out puppys for profit make me sick.
OP no it’s not ok, it’s good there is 24/7 staff bif try and fine to stay in your home for a week or that will watch the puppy in their home. Pay well. You’ve got this issue for the next 15 years or so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the breeder is ok Selling you a puppy knowing you are going on travel and it’s potentially going to be boarded so soon after leaving its mother?
These breeders that keep churning out puppys for profit make me sick.
OP no it’s not ok, it’s good there is 24/7 staff bif try and fine to stay in your home for a week or that will watch the puppy in their home. Pay well. You’ve got this issue for the next 15 years or so.

This may not be the breeder. They may not know. Our breeder kemp ours an extra two weeks. We paid her a bit more.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes horrible idea. You can’t get this puppy if they can’t stay with the breeder or at your house with someone else at a minimum. If your life also involved travel you can’t plan (didn’t you know about the puppy??) and no one who lives with you getting a puppy may not be in the cards at the moment.

I was on a waitlist for a puppy and someone didn't pick up their 12 week old puppy from the last litter so I got a call from the breeder and just said yes. If I don't take him I need to wait for a puppy.

Keep waiting. The timing doesn’t work.

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Would this pup make you a first time dog owner? It’s hard to believe that anyone who has ever had a dog before would consider this. New little puppies who get parvo may die. Best case scenario for parvo is a huge vet bill.

Part of being a responsible pet owner is taking steps to protect your pet and keep it safe and healthy. You would be putting this puppy at risk just so you don’t have to wait longer to get a dog. Do you really want that on your conscience?

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Anonymous wrote:I need to be out of town a week after I am schedule to pick up a new puppy. Is this an awful idea? The puppy can't stay at the breeder any longer but he would be boarded at a vets office with 24/7 staff. Horrible idea?

Yes terrible. Find a sitter for your home. Do not put your puppy in a kennel