Our current litter will not have any 8 1/2 week old puppies with us. They are all leaving us at 7 1/2 to 8 weeks. However, I’ve included these pictures of Sydney’s last litter at 8 1/2 weeks.

The Boys

Mr. Light Blue-“Birdie”

Mr. Yellow Paws-“Stone”

Mr. White – “Eddie”

Mr. Stripe – “Findlay”

Mr. Tan – “Rigley”

We accidentally deleted the third picture of Rigley. So sorry!!

The Girls

Miss Flower – “Kaia”

Miss Bubbles – “Lexi”

Miss Lady Bug- “Madison”

8 1/2 Week Old Puppies: Developmental Information

By 8 1/2 weeks, training is well underway.

Meal time manners has moved from puppies merely eating in their crates to puppies learning to give eye contact and wait for a release command before eating. At this age, we are working heavily on training them to like and willingly give eye contact. This is a very important foundation for our training. We spend a whole lot of time on the basics so that the more advanced work comes easier, quicker, and more solid.

By 8 1/2 weeks, we’ve been working on the down/stay for almost two weeks. Puppies have been working on our stationary heeling exercises and finding heel position for over a week. They’ve started moving in heel position and puppies are learning to love focusing on and working with a person.

You can read about how we raise our younger puppies on our Raising Puppies page .