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I have a yorkie and a boxer. Snickers the yorkie is a big boy at 10 pounds and Seamus the Boxer is about 80 pounds. They are best buds. Snickers is young (10.5 months) and Seamus is about 6.5 years. I don't know how other large breed dogs are, but as a puppy they can be very rough and clumsy. I don't think that Snickers would have made it with Seamus a puppy. We got Seamus at 8 weeks he was 7 lbs, by the time he was 4 months he was 32 pounds. At 1 year he was 60 lbs and at 2 yrs he was 75 lbs. Big breeds grow at a much slower rate and seem like they stay in the puppy phase for a long time. A boxer is a high energy breed and Seamus didn't "Settle down" till he was about 4 yrs. I think that if you get a large puppy you would really have to make sure you keep an eye on them all the time and set up bounderies. This is just what I think. I love both my boys and love having a small one and a big one.

I have attached some pictures of my boys. The one of them laying together is current.