wanting some advice i am getting two puppys from same litter female and male is this ok

Have you raised puppies before? I would never advise raising two puppies together personally unless you were very experienced. One puppy is hard work, let alone two.

I don't know that many good breeders that would sell two puppies together either unless they know the person well and know they could cope.

Presumably at least one will be neutered as soon as possible?

Positives:
Pups will have each other for company

Negatives:
You have to spend a lot of time with each puppy separately
Pups are more likely to rely on each other than on you, possibly complicating training and bonding
You have two puppies to watch like a hawk for toilet training
Two puppies will wind each other up
You have two puppies to teach recall to and this will easiest be done by going for separate walks or ensuring you have someone to help you
Obviously everything is more expensive
It's harder to teach pups to walk nicely on a lead when you have two to teach

Personally I wouldn't do it, but it's your choice - I'd advise you to get only one puppy and get another at a later date.

Personally I would never take 2 puppies from the same litter, they are far to well matched and can fight when they get older, they also listen to each other far more than they will listen to you and are not such people dogs, they never stop playing, get up to mischief together, and are harder to train .
This is my experience anyway my pups are 5 months apart in age, others might have different experiences but I have looked into this a lot and it seems to be the general consensus... I wouldn't do it again!

2 from same litter is never reccomended becaus they tend to focus on one another rather than on the owner and that can make it all the more difficult to train them - can end up having to train each seperately so you're spending twice the time on exercise etc. Can be a bit of a handful and as others have said, you can end up with sibling rivrally and aggressive behaviour in later life as both try to be top dog

When we did consider getting a 2nd dog, we were advised to wait til Ailsa was at least 18 months old as that way we would get a break from housetraining and juvenile naughtiness - in the end, we decided one dobermutt was more than enough so stuck at that - no 2nd doggie for us

the breeder we got Brude from sold two pups to another person we met walking on the beach - but those two pups were not from the same litter - they were about 12 months apart

I think Lotti and Moonbird have pretty much covered the reasons why it's a bad idea

any breeder happy to let you take two pups is most likely more interested in your dosh than the puppies' welfare, so I'd look elsewhere straight away!

I've met more than one couple of pups in rescue who have only stayed in their new home for about a week - as their owner couldn't cope

I think one thing missing of the posts above is the problems you generally have getting pups off to sleep when you first bring them home - and you'll have more difficulty with two of them egging each other on and keeping each other awake!


BTW - if you train one dog, then add a second at a later date, you'll find the second dog pretty much falls into line with the first dog's training - we use our well trained beagle to assist in training rescue dogs :thumbsup:

thankyou for advice am omnly taking one now thanks

thankyou for advice am omnly taking one now thanks

I honestly think that you have just saved yourself a lot of heartache, you will have all the fun of bringing up this puppy then in a couple of years you will have the joy of picking and bringing up another, and they will be still young enough to enjoy each other but you will be able to keep control much better.

Don't forget to put up the pictures when your puppy arrives :)

When Ellie had her babies, I had a wonderful couple come for a puppy who couldn't make their mind up which one to have, and ended up having two both boys, I pointed out all the reasons why I didn't think two was good idea, but they insisted, and convinved me that it was ok to let them have two, and these puppies were wonderful together, no fighting a doddle to train them both and loved so very much.
I certainly wasn't just interested in their dosh I would happily have kept all the puppies and it broke my heart when they went
but This was and is still a perfect home, they bring them back to see me on their birthday and at Christmas and they are super little dogs

Sonit obviously worked in this instance

actually - we didn't ask courtney which breed they were considering ;)

MP - were your pups Cavaliers? They're usually a bit easier to handle than a lot of other breeds - and if they went to experienced dog owners with plenty of time and patience for their dogs I can understand how they'd manage :)

Having not seen courtney on the group before, and going by the tone of this post, I'm assuming this may be a relatively new experience

I was assuming it was 2 of the pups she was advertising for a friend, which are staffy x collie
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=397220

I'm changing my advice then

Don't

Just don't

Two breeds crossed which will most likely produce a high energy dog, packed with tons of muscle, who will be highly destructive if not given about 8 hrs exercise a day (backed with the muscle and jaw strength...), and who loves to be with people so always wants to be under your feet? No thanks :shakes:

I sincerely hope courtney's friend is carefully vetting new owners to find people who can cope with these dogs!

I'm just remembering how much hard work Ailsa was when she was a pup and how little sleep we got for several weeks. The cleaning up, the getting up at all hours- we never ate so much junk food just because we were too tired to cook - little monster is 7 next week- love her to bits, drives us mental and still so bouncy at times she gives me bruises but I just could never have given up on her...

I think most of us have been though that phase at one point or another with our diggle :hihi:

I remember going through a phase of almost hating the evil little scrap of fur who was determined he was going to rule our house and was starting to get too useful with his teeth :mad:

Love him to bits now though :D even if he still sneaks up on the bed with Mr Strix and tries to warn me not to throw him off every now and again :suspect: