Enter the litter's birth date and get the whole development timeline on real calendar dates, eyes opening, weaning, vaccines, temperament testing, and go-home day.
Enter the litter's birth date and get every milestone mapped to real dates, eyes opening, weaning, vaccines, temperament testing, and go-home day.
A litter's first 56 days follow a schedule that barely varies, and a breeder who can show families exactly what happens each week earns trust no marketplace listing can.
Warmth and weight are everything, twice-daily weight checks catch problems before anything else does.
Eyes open around days 10–14, ears a few days later. First wobbly steps and first deworming.
The window when gentle exposure to people, sounds, and surfaces shapes the adult dog. Breeders own the first five weeks of it.
Then repeat every two weeks through go-home.
Gruel introduced; fully weaned by 6–7 weeks.
First DHPP alongside the litter’s first full vet exam.
Temperament testing at 7 weeks; go-home at 8, the legal minimum in most U.S. states.
Eight weeks (56 days) is the standard, and in most U.S. states the legal minimum. Many breeders of toy breeds hold puppies to 10–12 weeks because tiny puppies benefit from the extra time with the litter.
Between days 10 and 14 for most puppies, with ears opening a few days after. Vision and hearing sharpen gradually over the following weeks.
The first DHPP combination vaccine is typically given at 6–8 weeks, with boosters at 10–12 and 14–16 weeks handled by the new family, which is why a written vaccine record belongs in every go-home packet.
Roughly 3 to 14 weeks of age, the period when puppies form lifelong impressions of people, surfaces, sounds, and handling. Breeders own the first five weeks of that window, which is a genuinely underrated selling point for a well-run program.
The numbers behind this calculator come from veterinary literature and clinical references, not folklore:
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