Our Australian Shepherd had her first litter this past summer and man, I can tell you it is a lot of work. I don't know if it's more work with smaller ones or bigger ones. I gained a LOT of knowledge from this site beforehand, thank goodness! But really nothing prepared me for when they got bigger and learned to gang up on me! At about 8 weeks old, they would surround me outside and pull on my pants until they had them pulled down. It's SO hard to teach the "no biting" thing when 5 of them are all ganging up on you at once! But yes, it was SO rewarding. Two of them were picked up by someone from Germany to go back home with her and 2 stayed in Texas and we kept one. As much as cleaning up their messes got to me, I was still really sad to see them leave.
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