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Originally Posted by wildenmorgen
It is very common practice to remove an F1-F3/4 in the US from it's mother to bottlefeed at 2-3 weeks. Typically in this case, the mother has a wolfish personality (skittish or shy), which the breeder tries to overcome in the puppies through intense human socialization, so they do not learn shy or fearful behaviors. I'm not certain how much it helps.
In a confident mother (such as the type that should be bred with the CSV...), I don't think this is as much of an issue. Also, puppies learn bite inhibition from chewing on their littermates in the 5-8 week range. Some of the dogs I have worked with (not CSVs) that were removed too early from their mother have been much more likely to chew or nip at people (very hard sometimes) because they never learned when or how hard to play bite from their littermates.
But, I have never worked with very young CSVs, only young wolves and young "other" dogs...maybe it is quite different. 
Marcy |
hi i have read articles on the barbaric practice of removing young wolf cubs from the mother at this age, they do it also with wolf and dog cross or wolfdog cross, the people who do this and say the know about wolves obviously think nothing of the mother wolf, they also obviously have not a true bond with the mother wolf,
but good luck with your first CSV litter i call them baby crocs,,,, snappers,,,, i often have lots of pin holes in my hands but this to me is part of it all and is sign of good character to come from pups,,, regards Pacino