well that breeder is clueless lol lets then go as soo as they are weaned? lol the reason for staying till at least 8 weeks is the learning period, they learn all there vital skills from their mom at that age! you will need to work particualry hard with him, I had a dog that we found as a stray when she was just barely weaned, and she has body language problems, she does not understand the body language of other dogs, and does not know how to give warning signals etc.. we had to rehome her because of it, to a home with only 1 other dog, 5 others was just to much and caused a lot of problems.