[Michael Romanos]

Linda - I'm very pleased that people you contacted don't let their pups go until they are 10-12 weeks old. Excellent. But I don't think it is excessively wrong to let one go at eight weeks and I don't feel that this is going to have serious repercussions. And occasionally, there could be problems associated with the puppy's birth home and environment. so the quicker out of there, the better. But, yes I never got my last two Corgis until they were both past 12 weeks and I couldn't honestly tell you what advantages it had.

Toileting is a training exercise for quite a time. A litter box would be only a little different from say, newspaper. If the puppy is encouraged to going to the toilet on newspaper in the kitchen. Then for a time this is the toilet recepticle. So the big outside world where dogs can toilet in the most convenient places for dogs and are human-approved eg under a tree, under a bush, on a grassy area in a corner etc, is a learnt thing, nothing to do with litter boxes, and the sooner it is exploited, the better for everyone concerned. Mind you, there are dogs raised in apartment blocks with little vegetation ouside, and could be several floors away, where I suppose a litter box would get some useage. Just as long as the pooch also is given many opportunities to toilet in the outside world as part of their daily exercise routine. Adult Corgis - not aged Corgis - don't require toileting any more than three times a day - about the same as an adult human.