What can you say about pups? They love.... with all their dear little hearts. Our pups have been vet checked, vaccinated, microchipped. Most are house-trained but they're still just babies, so there will be lots of "accidents" at first. They are very biddable and will train easily with love and forgiveness.
Animal Advocates Society cannot give pups to homes where they will be alone for more than two hours. Lonely pups are heart-broken pups. And worried, anxious, and frightened pups. Soon they are "problem pups". Pups can join full-time families only - they need to be fed several times a day, they need to be taken out for house-training many times a day, they need to be held, so they aren't lonely, and cuddled when they're scared, and played with. This cannot be done if there is no one home for long periods. Getting a pup when there is not time for its social needs to be met and then crating it so that there is no "lonely-puppy mess" to clean up when you finally get home is cruelty. AAS does not condone the use of crates for training. Billions of pups learned to be housebroken and to not chew before the advent of crates. Crates have become popular so that people who really don't have time for a pup, can get what they want anyway, even if that pup's life is going to be one of miserable isolation and loneliness. Breeder/sellers of pups make more sales by recommending the use of a crate to potential buyers who have no time for a pup but selfishly want to "own" one anyway. Making sure your home is still spotless when you get home, by imprisoning the dog, is a symptom of the "I want everything" attitude that seems to be the norm now. A dog can be urged to go into a crate rather than on a couch or underfoot, and if the crate door is open, the dog may think of it as a "den", but if the door is closed, it is a prison. In fact though, we have never seen a dog that is really happy being told to go to its crate. It always looks as it must feel, that it is being punished in some way - even though it accepts it. Dogs are happiest being family members and no other members of its family are shut in the basement, the laundry room, the bathroom or a crate and they know this.