When we adopted Josie from a shelter, she was about 4 weeks. No older than 5 weeks, at the very most. Her momma was there at the shelter with her and everything.

I regret to this day that we didn't leave her there for a few more weeks. They were just so ready to give her to us . . . I didn't even think about it at the time.

When we got home, we realized that she hadn't been weened. (shelter people told us she'd been eating dry food for at least a week) and she's been sickly ever since. She's had a lot of gastro-intestinal problems & she has asthma . . . I think she may have missed out on some nurtition from her momma.

Makes me sad to think about it . . . but I guess I can't do anything about that now. She's fairly healthy now . . . but after a year of pretty high vet expenses . . . it's sad that people don't think about things more than that, especially when they're working around it all the time!