hello

thanks again to everyone who supported me through loosing one of my pups. it really helped me.

anyway, they are all 6 weeks old now and so i have started to advertise them, today i have sold one who is going to be picked up the 1st week in april, but i feel so sad and she hasnt even gone yet!. i have 3 more to home and cant deal with getting so sad each time one finds a lovely new home. is it usual to feel sad or could it be that i am just sensative after loosing isabelle?
the new home is lovely, she will have all she could ever wish for, i am just so sad

kate

All of mine were 'sold' before they were born, although two people dropped out (they had been waiting a while) but the other two 'sold' within a week of birth. It meant I got to knwo the newowners really well as they all visited me 2-4 times a week. I cried my eyes out when the first pup went, and set the new wner off! (I had warned her in advance there might be tears!) We kept the last one until 12 weeks old, as the new owners had a holiday booked and I had a horrible, empty feeling after she had left.

I think you put so much time, effort and energy into them, it would be odd not to get upset, to be honest.

I am sorry for the pup you lost, it must be so hard.

I find your feelings perfectly normal.  I have pups, and although I actually had long standing reservations, I really bred because I wanted a show pup.  I am keeping a dog and a bitch for myself.  The ones that are going, will be to people that I had previously vetted.  Yet I will still cry as each pup leaves home.  People usually haven't finished reversing off the drive before I'm in tears.  The day I stop crying, will be the day I stop loving, and there would be no point in me having dogs.  Yup!  You're normal.

Very well put JeanSW!!!!

You put so much time, energy, and love into every aspect of the pups life, and to see them go, is hard.  Your feelings are totally normal, and if they werent, I would question that! 

Sorry to hear about the loss of Isabelle.  That to is very hard, when a pup goes onto the bridge before its life really began.  Bless her!

Continue to be passionate about your dogs, and to feel sad when they go.  But remember the pups are going to LOVING homes. 

If you didn't feel sad it wouldn't be normal IMHO.

When I collected my bitch Jessie from her breeder(Jessie was 14 months old)she couldn't watch me drive away even though she knew it was the best this for her(long story) & when I collected Jessie full brother Wukee, her partner always puts the puppies into the new owners car & then rushes indoors to cry. they both say the day that they stop being upset is the day they will no longer own dogs.

I bought a BC puppy for a friend in Germany & knew that she would be going away from the day I got her, yet when she happily went off with her new owners to the ferry I had to turn & walk away quickly as i was so upset & this puppy was not related to my dogs at all.

Wukee & Jessie's breeders know that the four puppies that have left them from this litter are in good homes & they are forever homes, but they still care about them as all good breeders should.

Can't say that about the breeder of my cavaliers, they never even bothered to contact my friend when her dog died suddenly, they were simply breeding for money & the kudos of producing winning show dogs

Perfectly normal - and just a word of warning, you will no doubt be in floods, along with new owners, when they each leave

blubbed my heart out when every one of ours left and i wasn't even there for most of them leaving!!

Im so bad when someone says they want one i burst into tears. :o))

Wendy

its pretty awful, i have only had 4 litters and kept one from each, but always a mass of tears as each one leaves,thankfully always got to know the owners well before they leave home, the internet is a wonderful thing as get regular updates and pics!! but it is a bit like giving your children away, although there were times when mine were teenagers I would have happily given them away but thats a different story, ha ha

Hi, I cried solid for a week when my pups went. I even thought to myself I couldn't ever do this again but 5 months on and seeing the joy that the pups have brought to their new families it was worth it and I will be doing it again . Although I am extremely disappointed that the new owner of my partners fav pup hasn't kept in touch:-(.He was the smallest and needed extra TLC. We were both upset when he was chosen but circumstances meant we couldn't keep another dog.
Angela

i normally wait until they drive off, then im useless!

> the internet is a wonderful thing as get regular updates and pics!!

I agree bertsmum.  And it's not only pups that we've raised personally.  Someone used my stud boy a year ago, and travelled quite some way.  They were people that I really took to, and I was updated throughout the pregnancy.  It was wonderful to get photos of my dogs pups, and I was almost as excited as the bitches owner when she whelped.  Well, she has obviously kept in contact with the owners of that litter.  I have just received photos of two of the pups at 10 months, they look super.  You'll think I'm daft - but I'm so proud!

I must be unusual - I did miss mine as soon as they left, but was also pleased not to be constantly cooking chicken & mince for them and clearing up newspaper. That lasted about a day or two, and since then I've missed them more each day rather than less!!