I'm not a breeder Julia and maybe not much help here as there are others who are. I know from a friend of mine who is, she gives the pups a colour tag and observes daily and writes down what she sees. She looks at the temprement, development an sociaal charachter of each pup individually and very closely.
In some pups there is an obvious progression line and the charachter is very stable in the first few weeks up to 7 weeks. The one pup will go off and explore when able as soon as it can and another will stay around the mother. Check out the link underneath, it goes into some detail, and saves me typing it all :lol:
http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0044.htm
In some pups there is an obvious progression line and the charachter is very stable in the first few weeks up to 7 weeks. The one pup will go off and explore when able as soon as it can and another will stay around the mother. Check out the link underneath, it goes into some detail, and saves me typing it all :lol:
http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0044.htm