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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]TLDR whole thread but I do dog adoptions for a living.  You can't leave a 4 month old puppy home alone all day.  That's cruel.  Even a dog walker is insufficient for the training and socialization a young puppy needs.  Dog daycare would give it socialization but not a lot of one on one training.  I'd get an older dog.

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People like you are the reason people Shop instead of adopt.

Is ideal? No but it’s doable and dogs are just fine. You don’t need doggy daycare. A dog walker is fine.[/quote]

I think it's a genuine concern to get an 8 week old puppy and leave it home alone for 8-10 hours a day. It needs to go out 3-4x during that stretch, which either means $100 in dog walker visits a day (puppy is too young to go to doggie daycare), or a puppy that takes a lot longer to housetrain because it's used to doing its business in the house. Then the owner has to be willing to spend significant amount of time with the puppy to get it the training and socialization it needs to ensure that it grows up to be a lower maintenance pet. This is time the adults would probably otherwise be using to do their house chores and cooking. And down time. Puppies eat into down time. I'm not saying it cannot be done, just that it takes significant commitment from the owners.

I don't usually recommend puppies to people that have never had dogs, because they're 10x the work of a 2-3 year old dog. I would definitely not recommend one to someone that has never had dogs that works outside the home full time.[/quote]

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