-> Well, yesterday we became the happy owners of two yellow lab puppies, Sophie   
   -> and Hooch, 8 week old littermates.. and what a handful they are !!!! :)   
      
   Hi Janis!   
      
   I am jealous already!   
      
      
   -> I have them in our 'extra' kitchen off our main kitchen now, with a child   
   -> gate.. which Hooch keeps knocking over .. but just so I didn't have to   
   play   
   -> referee all day and night. I figure I'll let them out after a few days..   
   that   
   -> or try letting them out one at a time...   
      
   -> If anybody has been through something like this, yer comments are welcome   
   Lol   
      
   I think they are all different. In what I have read and in my   
   experience, it is good to expose the Pups to Toby in a neutral area,   
   such as outdoors, The pups will get used to him, but it is the pups that   
   could now make the alpha dog think he is losing territory, which may   
   very well be when they grow up, but I think for the pups, it is just a   
   matter of getting used to everything. For Toby, it is that, plus   
   security. But if there is no aggression already, I don't think You have   
   a thing to worry about. The biggest problem would be Toby feeling   
   threatened. But that does not seem to be the case. With the Kittens, You   
   know more about that than I do for sure . Other than just watching   
   how the big one plays, as I assume the little ones at 8 weeks are still   
   small.. I would just enjoy the the living heck out of em and take   
   pictures and or videos if You can.. They are only small once!   
      
   Have a good One!   
   Mike   
      
      
   PS.. I am going to be asking You in a while, do the litter mates play   
   rougher together, than usual, meaning rougher than say two different   
   dogs, maybe even different ages from different litters. I got all kinds   
   of advice, non specific, about is it a good idea to get littermates or   
   not. I finally sided with the it's ok. However as I think I posted to   
   you before, these two, love each other dearly, but seem to be, shall we   
   say, so familiar with each other, they can get to playing and at times   
   just get soooo rough. It could be that it's just their personalities.   
   But It did make me wish, though I would not trade them for the world.   
   That maybe I would have raised one to a year and then got another,   
   rather than raising the two. But again, if it is a personality thing,   
   that would not have mattered. If it is because they have been play   
   fighting since the crib.. Then I would have tried to alleviate the   
   situation. But like I said, they make it sound like championship dog   
   fights one minute and are curled up sleeping together 2 minutes later.   
   So let me know how Yours go...   
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