The Dilemma of Raising Many Puppies of the Same Age By Jeff Nenadic

If you want to get bring up multiple puppies in your house and don’t know which brood to select. Then you might want to know some of the advantages and disadvantages of growing many puppies that belong to the same age group.

Selecting Numerous Puppies Is Definitely Not Worth The Difficulty

In case you are raising puppies of the same brood and same age group, then it is natural that, as they grow one of the puppies will tend to become dominant and become the leader of the others. You must be knowing, how it is to raise a commanding and arbitrary dog. Here it means that, as the puppy grows to be obedient, it fails to have the self confidence lacking the social skills.

This dog who is dominating most of the times will become very combative towards other dogs in all the situations. What happens when one dominates the others is, the other dogs will feel a little insecure and will not be able to cope with the abilities of this dominant dog, this can sometimes lead to stress related problems in them. Not only this, both the dogs will go through separation angst when they are isolated from each other. This is something like separating twins or siblings during childhood.

Watch out for some severe dog fights

As the multiple dogs grow, they will slowly start establishing their roles amongst themselves, and therefore you don’t have to bother too much about the grown up dogs fighting. But when you consider dogs fighting when they are puppies, as they are small they tend to fight physically, when there is a competition. Some of the situations where you will find them fighting are, they will fight for toys and during meals. And this is mainly to grab more attention.

When this kind of fighting takes place, you have to give them, proper commands and training to make them behave properly. If this habit is not curbed, then the puppies will start hurting each other during the fight, and the one puppy that is always docile will start developing solicitude as he grows. And if all your dogs belong to the same sex then these issues will escalate.

The behavior and training process will take a back seat while you have multiple puppies

This is the prime concern which most of the dog owners ignore while they get many puppies into their houses. As they come in a pack, these puppies will spend most of their time among themselves, and they do need much of your attention, even the need for training becomes less. So, before you plan to get multiple dogs consider all these aspects.

Attention and all that may not sound serious to you, but imagine training all the puppies to the rules and commands of your house. This is not easy, it would be extremely difficult for not only you but your family members too, as these puppies are busy among themselves, and your commands will go unnoticed.

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