I have 2 puppies. Yes, count em, 2. Holy shit I've lost my mind. I only went to go get one puppy, that's all I wanted. But I took the hubby with me.....The guy offered us the other puppy for pretty much free, so here we come home with 2 - 4 month old Boxer puppies. (pretty much 5 months now)
I started to read up on two puppies and realized it's going to be A LOT of work, like I knew it would be work, but didn't really put two and two together until after I bought them both.
So here is the ground rules I've set up to cover these two:
1.) Separation. Be this taking one places with just me, separating them when they sleep, separating them for training, or just having one in the kitchen and one in the other room with me, they will work through being separated.
2.) Being strict with both. It's hard to resist a cute puppy face, but when there is two?! Holy cow! I have resolved to be strict with both puppies, I feel this is in their best interest. I am the dominant one and I do not want either or to think they can challenge that.
3.) Consistency. I want to be consistent with both puppies. I know that with Buck, we didn't let our guard down with him till he was pretty much 2 years old. It was consistent commands and rules from day one that he came into this house.
So that is where I'm at. I've got a solid sit on them and we are working on come and stay right now. They both listen to me better than my husband, so he is going to have to put some effort into them. Buck did the same thing, listened to me a whole lot better than my husband. That was only because my husband didn't put the effort into training like I did.
I will say though, I am happier with puppies. After Buck died I went into depression :( I didn't clean the house and I didn't want to do anything. I even started having period like cramps, which I know is from the stress of it all. This was not good for my health, nor my babies health. 6 days into having these two tards, the house is clean and I am generally happy.
Weird.
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