How Do You Choose Your Pup

[Silversnake 1,099]

 

 

If you can't split them by testing their confidence or alertness and one hasn't particularly chosen you and your gut isn't telling you I would let someone else choose one and just take the other one. When I drove 2000km to pick up my saluki x staghound and both were beautiful pups with good feet but extremely timid to the point where I could not tell anything about their personality (flecking nightmare) I just went with my gut. I still don't know if I made the right choice or not.... Good luck with it and I hope it all works out for you.

If id have travelled that far to see timid un-reponsive pups id have made the return journey without one,a few minutes before i tore a strip of the breeder.There is a good chance the pup will flourish under different conditions and hopefully that was the outcome,id not take the chance.Over here we possibly have a better choice and can be less discerning with our choices,litter A is bollocks so we visit litter B or C,2,oookm,to see a litter like that,id be steaming to drive tuther side of town for that opportunity.

I agree with you totally and I would do the same if I was spoilt for choice with saluki saturated coursing dogs but the only person I could find who actually works a saluki was 1000km (2000 km round trip) away and in the middle of nowhere. I had never owned a saluki of any type and I was very keen to raise and work one. I had been told by many they are nervous 'different' types so it wasn't totally unexpected. The owner himself told me as much before I left and is a gentleman so I certainly don't begrudge him but it definitely made it hard to choose between the pups because they gave me nothing!

[arcticgun 4,548]

Pups at an age where there too be viewed by prospective owners n buyers should be full of life IMHO unless of course they asleep but if expect them too be boisterous once awake