Are you actually bringing Lamar home at 5 weeks???

No he will be 6 weeks. I am on a yorkietalk-type message board for labrador owners/lovers and they said 6 weeks is a little early...8 weeks is ideal...but I guess getting a 6 week old lab would be like getting an 8 week old yorkie...it's not ideal but definately not bad. And I was going to ask the breeder to keep him for a week or two longer but she is letting his whole litter go at 6 weeks so there would really be no point to me leaving him since if he stayed, he would need to be with his litter, you know?

Until we got our Yorkies, all our other dogs we've ever had, labs, golden retriever, were 6-8 weeks old when we brought them home. They all did great! Back then, I didn't know there was a perfect age to bring them, home...so for being a dummy at the time....they were good and healthy dogs.

My little Zoe (yorkie) was 7 weeks when we brought her home. Didn't know any better and our breeder who is a wonderful lady had two litters she was caring for and knew Zoe was going to a good home. She did find, and she is a tiny girl, so your lab will probably do just fine. I just thought 5 weeks was stretching it, but 6 is better.

Your breeder let you bring Zoe home at 7 weeks!!!? Since she is 3 lbs now she must have been VERY tiny when you brought her home! Reuger is almost 6 lbs and I didn't bring him home until he was 12 weeks. I'm sure glad that you didn't have any problems because on YT I've read of so many who had big problems bringing them home that early and that small.

We had a lab and we brought her home at 7 weeks old. My husband had a training book and that was the age that was recommended.

My girl was a LOT smaller then her litter mates, she did not grow like they did. The breeder did not want to send her home with us until he was sure she had a clean bill of health with no underlaying issues. Until then, we had to wait for her. In this pic she is 12 weeks, and you can see how small she was, incase anyone would like to see.

And this is a recent pic of her that my brother made.

Wow! She is absolutely STUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a gorgeous girl you have there! And oh my goodness! What a teeny tiny lab puppy she was!!!!!! Just beautiful :)

Mandy, she sure was a tiny puppy, but she turned out so beautiful! Great picture!! :)

WOW, she was a tiny pup. We brought ours home at 10 weeks, and he was probably almost twice her size. Of course, now he weighs 95lbs (and no fat... he has 20 acres to sprint across all day, so he's really big, and also really muscular). She is a BEAUTIFUL dog now!! Wow...

Oh wow! Rebecca! How exciting! My parents have a lab and she is the most wonderful dog ever. She is so sweet and I can't say enough great things about her. I must have missed this whole story! When, and what made you guys decide to get another pup? How exciting!!

Thanks for your sweet comments girls, yes she was very tiny, and i never thought she would grow to be what she is today. When we brought her home i joined a local lab forum which, btw was a very rude place, but i stuck it out till i had enough info LOL... i left them a long time ago no doubt. When i took her to dogparks all the other labs around her age were a lot bigger, and all those people used to remind me how small she was, but to me she looked just perfect. Now with her almost 60lbs, i think she did pretty good, she has such a sweet personality, and a real baby with that LOL

Rebecca, enjoy your little munchkin, they are so precious, and time goes so fast... before you know, your baby is a big boy, but beautiful at that. They are a joy to have.

Basically I want to have children but it is just not feasibly right now since hubby is in school and I'm going back to school, so we just decided to get a puppy! :p :p :p But seriously, I grew up with yorkies and my husband grew up with labs. We decided when we got married that we would have a couple of each. We have our 2 yorkies, and we just feel like the time is right to add a lab into the mix. Hubby and I both LOVE dogs. I can't wait for the day when we own a house on some land and we can rescue dogs and have as many as we want.

That's a beautiful little guy you have there! I had a black lab when my oldest son was born and he knew I was pregnant before I did! Super smart.

I know you're going to enjoy him and I'll bet Hootie and Hobbs do too! Congratulations.

Zoe was checked out by two vets, one the day before we picked her up, and another the day after. Both said that she was extremely healthy. Our vet is really surprised that she is so healthy being so tiny. Most of his tiny yorkie patients have some type of health issue. Our breeder does not live too far from us also, and we stayed in contact for a while and she is still or groomer and is always there when we have a question.

Mandy, your lab is beautiful!!! If we ever move to the country, we may consider a lab although, I want to travel via RV when we retire, so the yorkies are probably more practical. People tease us that we already have the little dogs all we need is an RV.;)

Rebecca, did you get Lamar, or whoever he ends up being, today????