It's 6 ways 1 way half a dozen the other, I've took on dogs that were 2/3 years old that wasn't worth the lead it woulda took to cull them due to not being used proper and made some nice solid dogs out of them with very little effort, I've also been sent some that never made the cut... With my experience in this is I personally wouldn't take 1 knowing it would be a year before I could start using the pup to the full extent especially being raised in a pet home instead of a working home then try to be converted but it's each to his own.
Well the other optition is to have them just socialize it as a young young pup and then put it out in the yard like a yard dog and not make it a pet necessarily. I will be able to put almost as much time into it as I would if I had it in my yard because I'm not going to work a pup but maybe on the weekends until it is older anyway. I am more concerned with people's experience taking a more or less untaught dog and teaching it the basics such as sit, stay, not to jump on people. I'm not worried about being able to put enough time into it to get it to hunt, just talking about the more manners related aspect.
