FYI--they have separate x-pen roight now and are separated when we are at work, only together when we are home. Then they have free reign of the house and Snick hops up onto the couch to get away from Reesie, so he has a place to go when wanting alone time.

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Viv

Hey Viv! I'm w/the others, thinking it's better to be safe than sorry...However, I wanted to tell you that Apple & Buzz have been together, well over a year, and they still don't snuggle...It's Apple, not Buzz :rolleyes:...She's not a snuggler w/anyone, although they do stay in close proximity of each other, and are, definitely, bonded...I was able to leave Buzz w/Apple, relatively soon, because Buzz is such a benevolent pup (and still is to this day), but it sound like you've got one fiesty little boy (Reesie), on your hands, and an elder, not willing to put up w/it...I think, one day, you won't even need to ask, you'll just have that mommy gut feeling! Have a great day, Viv!
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You have to know your own dogs but I find that when humans are NOT involved, dogs are usually fine together. Jackson has been left out alone with my dads two dogs since the time he was about 16 weeks old. They sleep the whole time we are gone (my dad had cameras at one point) and nobody bothers each other... they don't play with toys or do anything. When my moms dog was alive, Jackson and her stayed together alone and they were always fine. And she was a little brat and it took her a while to warm up to Jackson but when the two of them were alone without us, it was no issues.

I've been leaveing my 10 month old yorkie and my 15 month old shorkie together for ages. They play rough sometimes but when they're in their coralle they're fine. I think it depends on the dogs. I would test it out for a short time at first. Thats what we did and it worked out fine. The only ones we keep seperated it our Basset hounds because they are so big and they can play really rough. We also have a 4 month old shih tzu who gets along great with the the other two but the reason we don't leave him with the other two is because my yorkie has a habit of chewing up the pee pad on the little one. The others are all outdoor trained.

When I first started leaving Mickey and Max alone at home together, I put Mickey in the exercise pen. That way they were together alone but not together.
Then I started leaving them both out for short times until it became anytime I was away.
The little "tiffs" are normal. My boys do it all the time. I only get involved when it gets obviously too rough.
Mickey and Max had a period of time when Mickey was smaller that they slept curled up together. Now they just sleep on the same couch sometimes :)
Anyway, they will be fine.

This sounds like thing at my place too. :aimeeyork:aimeeyork
I could have written that post :D

Also, like Britster said, my boys just sleep while we are away.

Mine def still scuffle as stated before. But I can tell they are starting to love each other too b/c SOMETIMES when I separate them and put Reesie in his pen, Snick will come over to it and scratch at it and stay by him. So sweet! I'll know when I should start the process of leaving one out while we are gone etc.

Viv

I would leave them together but I wouldn't let them free roam. Puppies are like kids, when they're alone they're mostly good but when two or more get together they seem to get into trouble. I can tell you from experience. That's why we bought a big corralle. It's really big and it take up the whole room if you expand it. I can put their beds, toys, and pee pads into it and they still have room to play. My cousin used to have one for her twin girls (human). That's where I got the idea.

I don't think I would leave them home alone together all day. I would wait a little bit longer, but thats just me! I don't leave Bella and Jett alone together yet either. Jett is 18 weeks and Bella is just about a year. Jett gets the x-pen and Bella gets the run of the house!

Princess was the pup and Scoobers my well he was still barely a dog and not a pup it started out really slowly like I would just go to the mail box in front of the house, and back, just going around the block to get kids from school and back etc. That was about 6 months ago, Scoobers and her can be in the same room or well it's a three room open area, Scoobers can easily jump into and out of her play yard.

However until the last 3 months Princess still goes in the play pen becuase she's a naughty monster whom cannot be trusted not to eat everything-well okay she doesn't eat anything but my shoes-she just gets everything from anywhere and puts it in a pile on the floor in a lil protest because she didn't get to go...she now occasionally can be in the open area without being in her pen...of course I still pick up everything pretty much and leave lots of toys out, my dogs have been together a year.

Elvis cannot stay out with the other dogs-he goes with me everywhere he can or he goes in my room alone (I'll be honest I have left him alone before with them-bad bad choice on my part though) as he has seizures so I don't trust the other dogs to not well be animals...they are much better in reacting the first time Scoobers growled at Elvis and avoided him for days...now he will actually run to me prior to Elvis having a seizure and run to Elvis...no training it's like he can just tell and tries to get help...but he doesn't really want to be close to Elvis still either, no growling or aggression, but still dogs will be dogs.

I'm going to wait....the 1st thing I will do is leave Reesie is an xpen and have Snick out and about in the house. Then later, much later, I will slowly leave them alone for short periods of time. I do go and get the mail and go out in the yard and leave them alone in the house and all they do is watch me from the window together. The cutest thing!!

I love them--just sayin:)

Viv