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I agree with @Josie and @arealhuman - you must hate reading these posts and feel very 'got at', and of course you'll have been so excited at the thought of getting your first dog. But we're all just concerned about the dog's welfare - and angry at your pup's breeder for telling first-time owners that it's fine for the pups to be left alone all day.
If you do decide to persevere, it's also worth mentioning socialisation - it's really important that even before they've had their full course of injections, puppies are taken out into the world, either being carried or in a carrier, and introduced to all the different people, sights & sounds that are out there. They can even be set down on the ground in places where there's unlikely to have been many dogs or wildlife around - a dog is more likely to suffer as a result of lack of socialisation than by catching something it's not yet covered for. Socialisation has to be done very carefully - every experience needs to be positive, and a bus suddenly applying its air brakes right next to the dog could give him a fear of buses for life.
If you do decide to persevere, it's also worth mentioning socialisation - it's really important that even before they've had their full course of injections, puppies are taken out into the world, either being carried or in a carrier, and introduced to all the different people, sights & sounds that are out there. They can even be set down on the ground in places where there's unlikely to have been many dogs or wildlife around - a dog is more likely to suffer as a result of lack of socialisation than by catching something it's not yet covered for. Socialisation has to be done very carefully - every experience needs to be positive, and a bus suddenly applying its air brakes right next to the dog could give him a fear of buses for life.
