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01-04-2009, 10:50 PM | #1 |
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I have three dogs. The Border Collie pup is always crated when I'm gone because he's a pup and he's trouble. I switch the pits off who is crated and who isn't. Mushroom's crated in the morning and Luce is loose (translation: Luce is on the couch). At lunchtime they get swapped and Mushroom gets the couch. When the pup gets old enough to be trustworthy in the house, he'll get his place in the rotation.
It doesn't hurt them to be crated. It could hurt them to be left loose together. |
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02-05-2009, 01:31 AM | #3 |
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03-04-2009, 03:54 PM | #4 |
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I have 3. My eldest who is 7yrs, has earned the right, by not being destructive, to be contained in a bedroom.
Daisy, who is 3+, will tear up stuff while your in the next room, is crated in a separate bedroom. The youngest, Rocky at 16 mths, is crated in the extra room in the house. Rocky whines but he will get over it when he realizes no one cares if he is whining. 10 or so years ago I had 2 female pitbulls who got along wonderfully. Never had we had any aggression between the 2. Upon coming home from work one day I discovered both dogs covered in blood but both still alive. Seems something had just set either one or both off and they had fought at some point that day. I was lucky, both only had a few puncture wounds and some scalp lacerations, hence all the blood. Never again did I leave dogs unattended. My newest addition Rocky went through a similar experience. Always left unattended with another intact male in a backyard. Owners came home one day from work to find both dogs bloody and worn out. No idea how long they had been going at it. I took rocky in so that he wouldn't go to the pound and be euth'd. I will never leave my dogs alone for fear of losing them. |
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03-30-2009, 06:18 PM | #5 |
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Just wondering if you leave them out alone with you are gone.
I have two who have been together for over a year (one is two and a half one is 1 and a half years old) and I had to kennel them together several months ago due to a foster situation and the fact I didn't trust them out at night. Now I can't kennel them apart. It's a whining fest and even though the kennels are next to each other I have to fight with them to get them into separate kennels. I've never had any aggression from them towards each other or any other dogs or other animals (cats, chickens, goats, horses...) Last time we went on vacation I had them kenneled and rotated to give them more freedom. My male completely stopped eating! As soon as she started kenneling them at night together he started eating again...but that would mean that one dog would have to spend every other day kenneled for a total of 20 hours!!! Just looking to ideas and advice to keep them eating while we're gone for two weeks! (Having them stay with someone is not an option since there are only two people we trust, one already has three dogs (she's the one that lives next door and would be taking care of them) and the other can't have dogs on the property at all!) |
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03-30-2009, 06:20 PM | #6 |
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03-30-2009, 06:23 PM | #7 |
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03-30-2009, 06:30 PM | #8 |
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I never leave my dogs together unsupervised. Though they are great with eachother I don't fully trust them alone. I would be a nervouse rech thinking something may happen. There was a member that posted about this. She use to crate her dogs together all the time and she never had a problem. Untill one day she cam home to a dead dog. Now why it that, because they are animals and not humans. And thought they may never fight there is alwasy that one time. I certainly don't want to come home to a dead dog. I would rather come home to whiners that didn't eat. This is your desision and just my opinion. But I WOULD NOT LEAVE MY DOGS TOGETHER UNSUPERVISED, EVER!
Good Luck |
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03-30-2009, 06:41 PM | #9 |
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03-30-2009, 11:53 PM | #10 |
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My late Kylee and Max lived together for 12 years, Max was 16 weeks when we got him from a rescue group, he was 100% and papered pitbull dumped in a kennel and left... Kylee was a pitbull/corgi mix we rescued in the inner city of chicago when she was dumped and left to die near our business. When Max came home we had our aging male doberman who was 13 and Kylee who was about 3 at that time.. Max and Kylee bonded immediately and he and Charlie got alone like an old dog and a pup would. Once Max was housebroken I left all 3 together and alone and never had a problem.. Charlie died about 5 months after we got Max leaving just him and Kylee. We always left them home alone together for the next 11 years and never once had a problem. Maybe we were lucky but I do work from home, my office is here and I'm home most of the time with the dogs and kids as they grew up. Leaving them home alone was in the time it would take for going out to dinner or a wedding or something like that they were never left home alone for more than 4 hours at the most at any given time.
Klyee died in September 08 and Max followed her in December, he never got over her dying and sat at the front door every day waiting for her to come back home. He physically died of the effects of Canine Cushings Disease but we all knew he died of a broken heart the night Kylee had a heart attack and I sat with her until she died with Max at her side. I have 2 pitbull pups, sisters that are 9 months old now. WE have had them for going on 4 months.. they do everything together... eat out same bowl, same water dish, sleep together etc etc.. one is lost without the other if for more than a few minutes. I have not left them home alone for more than a few minutes.. but will not do so until I can do it slowly over some time to see what happens where I am only outside or close enough to be home in a few minutes. Time will tell.. I know people like here that say NO NEVER and I know people that have had nothing but multiple pits for years and years and have always done so with no problems.. so its a crap shoot like many things in life. |
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03-31-2009, 12:27 AM | #13 |
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IMO It isn't worth the risk. Something may not happen, but what if it does and you aren't there to break it up? I can ramble on and on about situations that DID occur from people leaving their dogs alone together and the guilt and heart break their owners had to face and how they wished they made different decisions.
The fact that your dogs are that dependant on each other is an issue in it self. What if one of your dogs got sick and died and the other one fell apart? I make a concentrated effort for my dogs NOT to become overly attatched to each other for their own sake. I think some people think it's cute, but they don't take into account the mental health of the dog which is cruel IMO. |
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03-31-2009, 03:50 AM | #14 |
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Bella is crated, Mollie has free run of the house, and it will ALWAYS be that way. Mollie stays in my room on my bed all day, my son says she doesn't even come out of the bedroom to greet him when he comes in, so she has the bed, and Bella is crated with the radio left on. But they are only home about 4-5 hours alone before someone comes home (me). I will never leave them both to have free run of the house. For one thing, I don't want to come home to a mess to clean up (where they have destroyed everything in sight), and I don't want to come home and find one of them dead from a fight over a sun ray. Remember, they may get along great for 5 years, 6 months and 27 days, but on day 28, they can fight over a sun ray. Not worth it in my opinion.
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03-31-2009, 03:58 AM | #15 |
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03-31-2009, 06:57 AM | #17 |
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We have a HUGE crate with a divider.. we seperate them at night and when we are not home. Sometimes, we do let them roam the back yard together while we cook dinner (our kitchen window views the backyard). but other than that.. they are seperated when we cannot watch them.. We have yet to ever have an incident (with each other) but we want it to stay that way.
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03-31-2009, 03:46 PM | #19 |
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My little lovebirds sleep on top of each other, play tug with high value treats/objects, and eat shoulder to shoulder. I have countless cute pics of them loving each other up. And I never leave them together unattended. This AM, they got into a stupid squabble over a rawhide. (they each had one.) I broke them up and they instantly laid down side by side touching and finished the rawhides. You never know when something will trigger one or both of them. I err on the side of safety instead of some fantasy notion I have of them "loving" each other. I probably have to re-think my rawhide protocol. The fact that it never happened before does not mean that it won't happen today.
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03-31-2009, 04:54 PM | #20 |
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