| Re: I seek guidance ASAP! Please help!
We currently have two rottie puppies at once. We got them both because while they are healthy now, they each have a severe heart defects that will likely shorten their lives - and our home is able to care for special needs dogs. We also have two adults at home, 24 hours a day, and generally only leave our homestead once or twice a month, and then only for a few hours.
Even with two people available for full time puppy care, two puppies at once takes up most of our time. I would not recommend it to anyone unless there were truly special circumstances, and even then I'd warn a person that to give them proper care and training is all consuming.
You will be best able to fully enjoy and care for your puppy if your raise just one at a time. Instead of having to juggle all of the extra work of two pups running out of sync with potty schedules, teething, nap needs, and such, you will be able have more time to enjoy the relaxed quiet times with your pup and linger over all of those delightful puppy moments that pass all too fast.
And special note to cerulean - "yet another trip out to the potty area" takes on a whole new meaning if there's two of them. If one's pooping, the other is usually too busy looking at clouds or leaves to do their business at the same time. I honestly do believe that two puppies at once will wear out our door latch four times faster than having just one pup.
Enklined - if you want two dogs, wait until your current one is about 4 - 5 years old and then get a pup of the opposite sex. I do believe that the very most enjoyable way to raise rottweilers is to get into a cycle of raising one to maturity, then introducing a junior dog to the household. There is something so special about a well spaced senior dog/junior dog relationship - and if proper training has been done with the first dog it is also the easiest dog raising situation. But the foundation of that sort of two dog household comes from making sure that your first rottie has your undivided attention during his/her formative years (age 1 - 4).
Lynda  |