{"id":2009,"date":"2017-04-04T11:01:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T10:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelabradorsite.com\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:49:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T19:49:59","slug":"collecting-your-labrador-puppy-at-five-or-six-weeks-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelabradorsite.com\/collecting-your-labrador-puppy-at-five-or-six-weeks-old\/","title":{"rendered":"A warning about collecting your Labrador puppy at five or six weeks old"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is not unusual to come across people that have brought their new Labrador puppy home at the tender age of six weeks.\u00a0 Occasionally even younger. There are some good reasons why you should not do this,\u00a0 but of course sometimes you may feel that it just cannot be helped. A breeder gets taken into hospital, or even dies, for example,\u00a0 and the distraught relatives need to rehome the puppies early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are considering taking pity on the breeder and their family and tempted to take on a five or six week old puppy,  you need to know what you are getting yourself into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s have a look at what puppies learn in those last two weeks that they normally spend with Mum and siblings before going to their new homes at eight weeks old<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bite inhibition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The process of learning bite inhibition is a long one.  It begins whilst puppies are quite small and first learning to play with one another and with their mother.   And it carries on until they are several months old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time you bring a puppy home at eight weeks,  however needle sharp you think his teeth are,  he has already learned a lot of bite inhibition from his mum and siblings.   Although you have to continue this process,  some of the hard work has already been done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At nine weeks, my own young pup could crush the bone in a chicken wing in seconds,  yet never actually even drew blood when biting my fingers.  Although it still hurt, her Mum had already taught her to ‘pull her punches’,  yet she was actually capable of crushing the bones in my fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you take a puppy home at six weeks,  you will have to do even more of ‘Mum’s’ job and teach the puppy not to cause actual bodily harm when she bites.  This is not easy and has to be done in stages.  You cannot just punish the dog for all biting or it will not learn the vital skill of bite inhibition.  You can read more about bite inhibition here: Biting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bite inhibition problems are more likely with puppies that have been removed from Mum too early, and can be very difficult to manage if you have small children.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This six week old Lab is full of fun, but not quite ready to leave yet.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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If you’ve been offered a six week old puppy, you probably have a lot of questions.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Touch tolerance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A puppy in the nest is being jostled constantly.  This is a normal part of growing up within a ‘litter’.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Puppies that are removed from this jostling experience too young may dislike being touched or bumped in certain parts of their bodies.\u00a0 There is a potential for this to lead to behavioural problems, including aggression, \u00a0later in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding a playmate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The main issues around bringing puppies home too young need to be addressed by finding your puppy  another puppy or puppies of a similar age and size to play with, on a regular basis.  This will go some way towards helping to balance the disadvantages of being removed from the nest too young,  or of being a singleton puppy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have an older dog that will play sensibly with the puppy,  and teach him some rules without being too rough,  then that too will help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will also need to make a lot of effort to handle this puppy a great deal.  Get her used to having her body touched all over, as often as you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resist the temptation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If a breeder asks you to take a puppy home at five to six weeks of age, be very suspicious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only in the most dire circumstances should a breeder let puppies go this young. The death of the puppy’s mother is not a good reason for separating the litter at six weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bear in mind that some disreputable breeders will make up excuses to get rid of puppies when they get to this age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the point at which the puppies are becoming both time consuming, messy, and expensive to care for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a full time job keeping them fed and clean for the next couple of weeks. But a responsible breeder will have prepared for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short of a personal disaster, no reputable breeder will normally request or permit a puppy to leave her premises before eight weeks.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This 6 week old puppy still needs her family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Adopting puppies under 6 weeks old<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ll find articles online, telling you how to care for a six week old puppy, what toys to buy etc. But you won\u2019t find one on this site because our policy is to discourage the practice of bringing puppies home before 8 weeks old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even more concerning is the practice of selling puppies at four or five weeks old, or in some cases, younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days I don\u2019t get quite so many letters from people who are desperately worried because the puppy they have purchased at three or four weeks old (yes really) is very, very, sick as I used to ten years ago. So perhaps breeding standards are rising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I do want to address one argument put to me recently. And it\u2019s a valid one. I received a letter from a reader in India who felt I did not understand the situation there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He told me that in many cases, breeders were so awful that puppies were most likely to survive if removed from them at the earliest possible opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He felt – and I understand this – that by bringing his puppy home at five weeks old, he probably saved the puppy\u2019s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem with this argument is exactly the same as the argument here in the UK or in the USA against buying puppies from puppy mills or pet stores<\/a>, or out of the back of a van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you buy that one puppy – to \u2018rescue it\u2019 you are effectively dooming hundreds of other puppies to a similar squalid existence and poor start in life. And in may cases to an early death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The breeder is only in it for money, so every puppy they sell, they will replace with another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Short of dramatic changes in the law which are not going to happen any time soon, the only way to stop this horrible trade is to dry up the demand for poorly bred puppies. And that is really down to you, the puppy buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outlook for the adult female dogs<\/a> used to produce those puppies is even worse, so please spare a thought for them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buying a puppy from the wrong breeder just perpetuates bad breeding practices. The answer is to walk away and find someone that is breeding dogs responsibly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Think hard<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Do think hard before bringing such a young puppy home.  You are naturally impatient to collect your new puppy,  but six weeks is really too young.  Resist the temptation if you can,  remember that it is a really<\/em> bad idea to bring a puppy home before he is at least seven weeks old, both for your sake and his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit our Labrador puppy<\/a> section for more information about caring for your new puppy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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