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Originally Posted by Mardelin  Ah! So you forgot, how your mom and dad handled the breeding. Every breeder should do it that way. Not only naming the dogs, but discribing their traits, temprement, color, size, structure, etc. |
Yeah, mom and dad are my smarties! I unfortunately went and picked them up on my own. Can the way they are raised have a HUGE effect on temperament? Seems like my female I got from the "hell hole" doesn't have the chill factor that my male has. It's taken almost a full year, but she's kinda getting it. She's so much more mellow than at first. I always tend to tell myself that it was the way she was raised. Never socialized, never touched grass until I bought her, never left the cage, etc. On the other hand my male was raised with kids around, played with daily, ran outside, etc. Can things like that effect temperament drastically? Or am I just coming to my own reasonings on the issue? (I know this is way off track to this post!)