The biggest pain with a new puppy is the crate training, the puppy's bladder being  the size of a walnut  and
maybe the worst is the puppy crying from separation anxiety all night.  I have sold puppies to pet people,
hunting homes, field trial homes, obedience homes and to professional field trial trainers.
 
 And no matter who gets the puppy they all appreciate having the puppies fit into the house quickly. And even the
professional trainers I have sold to in the past raise their new puppies in the house  for a while.

Don't Isolate your puppies
When I raise a litter of puppies I don't have them isolated. I might have them in a warm room for the first few days
but I do not isolate them. Puppies while they are in the whelping box need to see activity and see you coming and
going. One of the things that make crate training so hard is many people raise puppies in a room by them selves
and every time someone comes in the room the puppies get interaction. They get feed, watered, picked up to have
the box cleaned or someone has come to play with them.  When they don't see people coming and going this makes
the crate training even harder. If for the first 7 weeks of their life they get inaction when someone enters a room man
they are a real pain to crate train. The more they scream the worse the anxiety is in their new homes.  So when
I raise a litter I like to have them in living room were they can see me come and come and go and not always
have interaction. I do have them go to the family room which has ease access to outside when they are 4 weeks old.

Something with scent and to cuddle
 Now once the puppies are eating on their own  and are in some type of puppy pen. About  2 weeks before they go
to their new homes,  I go to Wal-mart and buy stuffed puppy toys most of the time they are sheep skin. The last 2
week the puppies I have  the puppies sleeping with all the toys so they have the litter scent on them.
It is interesting to watch as the puppies will cuddle and sleep with the toys as much as they do each other.
Once the puppy goes to a new home the sheep skin goes with them. I always tell the new owners keep this in
with the puppy as it has familiar scent and a cuddle factor that will help ease the separation anxiety. Also the last
week the puppies are in  my house I have them sleeping on  some type of carpet. As the puppies leave I cut
the carpet into pieces so that all the puppies get a piece of the carpet. Again here is something from their first
home with scent and making things more familiar.