How to train
2 Puppies From The Same Litter
Can you train 2 puppies at once? Only if you do this...
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does your dog like to play with other
dogs let me know in the comments below
today's question comes from Mary and
Mary has just adopted two six-month-old
Australian Shepherd mixes from the pound
they love each other and they prefer to
play in wrestle and fight with each
other more than play fetch with me and
my husband any suggestions I want to
engage them and prevent them from
balling each other but they get bored
easily now I'm assuming when you say
following each other you're talking
about just a lot of roughhousing when
young dogs especially puppies play with
each other they can get very physical
and sometimes we think it's a bit
serious but usually it's just very rough
play and that's just how they play with
each other something to understand that
when you get two dogs especially two
puppies it's not less work it's at least
twice the work in my experience what
I've seen people work with two dogs at
the same time especially when they're
around the same age they tend to kind of
teach them like it's one two-headed dog
and results are just all over the place
there are no results because the dogs
want to play with each other they're so
distracted the only way you're going to
get well-trained dogs especially when
they're puppies is to work with them one
at a time a lot of people think that
they can bypass this or that there's
just some shortcut that they can do if
you ever want your dogs listening to you
and working with you in the same
training session you first need to get
them listening to you one on one before
you then begin to integrate them don't
make that mistake of letting them spend
every waking moment with one another
that bond needs to be achieved with you
during training at least so that you can
encourage them to listen to you you want
to be the most exciting thing in their
life I mean after all we've got hands
we've got fingers we can throw stuff we
can play tug we can invent all of these
games and we can take them places we are
magical to our dogs but we have to
communicate that to them and sometimes
that's difficult to communicate when
they're so focused on playing with
another dog now I'm not saying we
shouldn't play with each other they
absolutely should however when it's
training time it's just a person and a
dog there's not other dogs there in the
beginning stages you wanted to be very
clear and very simple for your dog
rather than overwhelming them with all
of the
distraction to me it sounds like the
mistake you are making is trying to work
with them simultaneously that's that's
not gonna work out also understand that
the most raw form of playing for a dog
is wrestling and play biting and just
having fun even if you didn't have
another dog you would likely be dealing
with the issue of hey I would rather
play bite and wrestle than play fetch
it's a bit of a process to go from the
roughhouse playing and converting that
into fetch but you can do it just take
your time I have plenty of videos on
teaching fetch on my main youtube
channel you can check the description
for that if you haven't seen this as our
dogs get older they're not really
content to simply play with each other
in lieu of physical and mental training
with the human being remember since dogs
were bred to interact with people they
will always be a bit incomplete until
they have that really good interaction
with a human being
that's often accomplished and simulated
through games like fetch as I've said
and any other dogs form like herding or
fly ball or frisbee or agility I mean
there's a lot of ways to go about
building that connection and
relationship with your dog but doggone
dog interaction is is cool but not a
substitute for training or exercise does
your dog play with other dogs tell me in
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