[JadeD]

My litter mates are almost 8 months old. They sleep in different bedrooms. Over the summer my daughter was gone a lot as she kept house sitting for my mother and took her puppy with her. This gave my puppy and my older Yorkie a chance to bond as they both sleep in my bed and it has been awesome. The girl puppy sleeps with my daughter and the boy puppy and older male sleep with me. I had the puppies fixed at 6 months old so no accidental breeding. The puppies are separated fairly often and since Raksha just adores being fawned on and loved on by my daughter she is fine without her brother there. Rowan on the other hand just hangs out with Teek (older Yorkie) when Raksha is not around.

It has worked well, but during the day all 3 Yorkies are with me and if I have to leave I crate the 2 puppies together in a HUGE crate. It is actually 2 crates. A smaller crate that has a pee pad in it and then that is zip tied to a larger crate that has food water and bedding. That set up works great. It was an accident that it happened because I had their food in the larger crate and our big dog kept eating all the puppy food so he was not eating his dog food and just their food. I put the smaller crate in front of the larger one so the puppies could walk through it and then we decided to zip tie them together so the small one they walk through can have a pee pad on the rare occasions I have to leave them during the day. If I am gone for about 20 mins I don't crate them, but over that and I do and they are rarely crated. They seem to do well crated together, if I ever feel they are fighting I will put them in separate crates as I have 3 crates for the 2 puppies. One is the older Yorkies, but he doesn't use it as he is never crated at home.

I love having sibling puppies! It is the best and they do have a special bond. They do sleep together a lot. Bed time I go to bed and take all 3 Yorkies with me. When my daughter goes to bed she comes and gets her dog from my room and her dog loves that play time on my bed with her brother. It is a special bond, but when my daughter comes in the room both puppies run to the edge of the bed to see her and she pets mine and picks her up and mine comes right back to me and lays down to sleep.