For those with two -

[Patti]

I leave my 3 yorkies together in the back of the house and seperate my Pom as she is old and cranky and bigger than the yorkies. I only do this if no one is home which isn't too much. When I brought Roxie home 2 months ago I put her in a crate when I was gone because I didn't know how she would be and she wasn't potty trained. After a few weeks I saw how they interacted and now I don't crate Roxie. You will get a good idea if they are ok to be left together pretty quickly after you bring your new baby home.

[Erin]

You should have separate crates for housetraining. Mine have separate crates that are there but rarely used except when they nap in them. They generally have free roam of the house or we leave them in one room together. But unless they are crated we leave them together. When we have gone out of town we took one huge collapsible crate and they stayed in there together when we went out. They get along fine. They play fight and of course get into over a toy or a stick but they also nap together and play together.

[Brookef18]

Originally Posted by PrincessDiana

Do you let them stay together, like in one playpen/crate, or do you have separate ones for each of them?

Sadie is 6 months and weighs 4 pounds. Chewy is 2 years and weighs 5 pounds. I just started putting them both in an x pen when I leave because Sadie is bigger now and can hold her own with Chewy. When she was younger I didn't put them together because I was afraid they would get wrestling and chewy might hurt her with out meaning to. They have alway goten along but they play very rough.

Now that Sadie is bigger I feel she is strong enough to handle the rough play. Besides they seem to curl up and sleep while I'm gone for the most part, and there isn't tons of room in the x pen to wrestle in.

[Rae Rae]

Bella usually stays in the playpen and Rocky has run of the house. We would let Bella out, but she still has a lot of "puppy" in her and I don't want her to eat anything she shouldn't. Sometimes we'll just put them both in the playpen though.

[autumn star]

Both Autumn and Blaze share a crate together. They each have their own but prefer to be together!

[Beabble]

Well, Jess has her lil chihuahua and she keeps him over at her place when she's at work. We go over and get him and let him come play with us and Maggy May, but personally, I couldn't leave them together, for once, Maggy isn't spayed yet and Luke isn't neutered, but even if they were, I still wouldn't, Luke can get grouchy at times so I don't wanna take the chance. He's bigger than Maggy and I'm afraid he could really hurt her.

[4doggiemama]

One senior girl is free to roam where she wants, the other senior girl stays in a sm. ex-pen, and both of the boys have their own ex-pen. My Pommie, Snowboy, is 10 mo. old, weighs 3 lbs. more than the Yorkies and gets slightly rambunctious with the 1 1/2 yr. old Yorkie, Chipper. Worries me so I just separate them even though they love each other. Snowboy is also a chewer and I don't trust him.