The husband's mother actually bought it for them. Fortunately, the family recognizes already the potential problems. The lady seemed dismayed when I said that there were many breeders that would not sell a puppy to someone with that many young children in the house.
What do you mean?
I don't understand. So what if it's "silver"? So what if it's yellow with green eyes. Why would that make for more potential problems? Other than the they paid money for a "rare breed", they're still puppies and they can be trained just like any other dog.
I was just trying to be descriptive and give an indication that the family may not have been the best informed to start with. I do believe though that a silver (because of the Weim mixed in somewhere) would be a different critter than a lab...in general
Perhaps just different. I have thought that Weims were a little more "energetic" especially for a family with small kids. The family is used to an old lab (put down last year). I am hoping that it will be a 'good' puppy. Perhaps the biggest problem are the 3 small kids (youngest 10 months old)So they potentially have more behavioral problems then? Just trying to understand.
I think that will be a big factor. It is always hard to tell from phone descriptions what 'biting and growling' really means. After all, I think all puppies will "play bite" until taught not to. But what the heck when I got Belle and she was barely 6 weeks old. (Breeder lead me to believe she was closer to 8 weeks). She was (and still is at nearly 11 years old) quite the little hellion, and I did not have 3 small kids to deal with!
I mean that usually the bulk of a problem with nipping with a pup that was taken from it's litter at 6 weeks is lack of pack socialization. I don't there there is anything more to worry about (like dominance) than that. 6 week pups will be mouthier longer, will be apt to treat it's people like pack mates longer. It doesn't have anything to do with color.
