Border Collies

[Canis-Lupess]

It says in the site that the breeder allows potential buyers to view the pups in person from 4 weeks of age but whether they actually allow people to handle the pups or just look, it doesn't say.

[BorderColliez]

It says in the site that the breeder allows potential buyers to view the pups in person from 4 weeks of age but whether they actually allow people to handle the pups or just look, it doesn't say.

I don't see why there is a problem with potential buyers looking/handling pups

[cali]

its the age, puppies at that age are very vulnerable and strangers can track in deadly diseases like Parvo.

[Canis-Lupess]

I suppose even the breeder and any other family they have and other dogs they own of course can take in infections on their own feet just as likely as anyone else.

Still, there is the possiblity the bitch might be upset at smelling strange smells all over her young pups and feel nervous of strangers entering the area where her pups are and handling them.
I saw a staffie on TV who started to attack her own pups because of the atrnge smeels they were getting on them when family visitors were handling them but the dog behaviourist who went to see her said there was a question mark over her abilities as a mother and that it wasn't a good idea to breed from her again.
Our Mist would never attack one of her own pups even if she smelt strange things on them. She took two pups back quite happily that I had to hand rear and she'd hardly seen for weeks without trouble but she was a very good mother and would have been happy to take any other bitches pups as her own anyway. She was just that type of bitch but not all are.