.com Forum · Beginner Forum

At what age do pups move up to be sessioned? I'd like to keep 2 from litter and sale rest. they are 5 days old.

Puppies can be sessioned pretty much right away as far as I know...?

If you click on the dog on your home page, you can session them, then next time they'll show up in your sessions page. You can session them the minute they're born. They move up to adult dogs when they hit 15 days old.

Slight correction -- they become adults at 14 days.

Pups don't move up to be sessioned - you have to start sessioning them yourself

Pups can be sessioned from 0 days of age.

Pups reach adulthood at 14 days of age.

(Best to swap their food from pup food to adult food after they have been fed on Day 13, so they are on the right food when they hit Day 14 otherwise their condition goes down slightly.)

Easiest way to do it is to name them as soon as you know you want to session them and then add them to the Kennel Assistants list for all three (Train, Exercise, Groom). That way the Assistants do it for you.

Once they start to hit 20 in Exercise and Groom you can remove those 2 from the Assistants list. (Train/Obedience) almost always takes the longest in most breeds.

Muscle/Exercise and Groom/Coat as well as Condition will also go up a lot faster if the pups are on a decent quality food. I used a 1666 formula (low on medicine, 2nd highest level of fat, vitamin E and protein).

I put my pups on a 'Puppy 1666' til they are fed at Day 13, then swap them to an 'Adult 1666' from Day 14 onwards.

It depends on which breed you have and how quickly their sessionable traits go up, but as soon as my adult dogs reach 20 in muscle and coat condition I stop sessioning those traits. Once all three are at 20 (condition, muscle and coat condition) I change their food over to Pet House for Adults, and then those stats will stay at 20 for as long as they are on Pet House Adult food.

Their Train/Obedience needs to be sessioned until it reaches 20 and then I usually session it for a few more days past hitting 20 (as often it will appear as 20 but only really be 19.4 or 19.6 etc).

thank you for info... do I need to session pups that are for sale? what happens if they do Not sale?

No you don't need to session dogs that are for sale - you only need to sessions the pups that you wish to show.

If they don't sell most people Forever Home them - which means to delete them so that they are removed from the game.