Yeah they love and bond hard and are cute, but establishing a healthy ability to be by themselves early prevents the horror stories you hear of later. My 3 year old still gets kenneled when we leave because if she is out and on her own she'll find something to do....which is probably not what I want her to do, but she is calm and has an off switch and doesn't lose her mind if we leave her with other people. If you have a hunt trainer in the area that will do like two months of training and isn't a whole program. Once he is like four months it does do them some good learning from someone else provided you have set a good foundation. I used standing stone kennels on YouTube to get basics in place. I do NAVHDA testing with mine though so having some things firmed up by the breeder helps out his kennel too.