Hi guys. I have 1 dobie already and the breeder contacted me today to say the guy who put a down payment for this female has not been in contact or tried to pick her up he says I have a chance to take her this Saturday. She is too beautiful to say no too. What do you think?
^^^^ Great advice Falnfenix...I got some time, to share my 2 cents & good question bigd btw...but 2 pups get:
- lets just say stupider (over time) with each other (all day long) and the dogs never reach any true potential or self thinking confidence (never builds). (much like having twins, and raising them in front of a TV all day...lol...and eventually parents good direction, falls on deaf ears)
- in time...the family humans, are not needed very much...they have each other (afterall)...to just be wilder in spirit
(monkey-see-monkey-do practices)
Very common, even the strong pup of the two, will regress for sure and both become shadows in their own little world...we don't become as improtant.
I once trained 2 client littermate boxer pups, from 8 weeks old (for a few months) and did quite well....a year later, without me around, pair ended up "dumb as sh*t"...but owners couldn't follow through, on training....generally like living a decade with a crazy pair in the house, especially for the ill experienced handlers.
PS - 20 years ago, the seeing eye organization thought "since it was very expensive to just train 1 pup for months, why not start with two babies".
^^^^ What a big failure, the experiment was shortly cancelled (after several years)...as neither dog could graduate or be of any service value.
Raising 2 puppies at the same time is very time comsuming, and its also harder to gan the attention of one or the other. My girls are ten months apart, and I had a heck of a time with them.
Also it is said two pups who are littermates will bond more with each other than with the owner, I did not have this problem I think because of the age difference and that they came from separate litters, they definitely do love each other alot and get upset when one is gone but they are both bonded to me very much.
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