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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The old dog might get a new lease on life with a young companion... or might find the intrusion unpleasant. You cannot predict how it will go on that front.

Most puppies are adopted at around 8-12 weeks old, whether it's from breeders or from rescues who take in pregnant dogs. So the puppy could be 5-6 months of age when they need to get into daycare. That's too young for medium and large breeds (and indeed, smaller breeds too!) to be sterilized.[b] At that age they need socialization.[/b] So unless you get an older puppy, this won't work optimally for the pup.

- human who fosters pregnant dogs and puppies for a rescue.[/quote]

Can you tell me more about this?[/quote]

If a young puppy is left alone for long stretches of the day, with only a dog-walker at midday, they are much more prone to developping unnatural behaviors towards other dogs and maybe human strangers, such as leash reactivity while on walks and aggression off leash, in and out of the home. It's like what happened to certain kids during the Covid lockdown - they were behind not only academically, but socially. Unfortunately dogs don't have the long period of learning capacity that humans have, their window is much shorter. So you need to adequately train and socially expose your puppy when he or she is a puppy, otherwise the problems might be lifelong.
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