How long an interval between acquiring two new puppies?

amymay said:
How’s your first full day gone?
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Thanks for asking, she’s done really well :). She slept through in the kitchen all night and was clean.

She’s been for two walks today. The first one was a lot more eventful than we’d intended, as the hunt arrived early for a local lawn meet and she and OH met the hounds and hunt staff on the road, eek! That was not in the quiet introduction to country ways syllabus that I’d planned, but apparently she was calm. He did pick her up but she wasn’t bothered. She’s seen our horses in their stables and did woof at them, so I will introduce her to them very carefully. She was wary rather than aggressive, which is not a bad thing.

She does like to know where we all are. She loves her toys and her ball, she found this old football in the garden and had a good time dribbling with it. She’s off lead in the garden under supervision, but on lead everywhere else.


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She’s now crashed out on the sofa. It feels like she’s been here for ages.

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CorvusCorax said:
You meet them at a neutral venue for the sussing out. You don't collect the dog there.
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I‘m going to say that this happens very infrequently Irl with your average puppy buyer (I include myself in the ‘average’ group). My pil sourced our first lot, we went to the farm, picked them up. Current two, went straight to the house, picked them up. Bil’s pup, went to the farm (elderly lady alone), picked a pup, paid, left.
 
Cinnamontoast said:
I‘m going to say that this happens very infrequently Irl with your average puppy buyer (I include myself in the ‘average’ group). My pil sourced our first lot, we went to the farm, picked them up. Current two, went straight to the house, picked them up. Bil’s pup, went to the farm (elderly lady alone), picked a pup, paid, left.
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I'd say it depends on area, breed/type of dog, etc etc. If I had a litter and I didn't know the purchaser, I would not invite them to my home automatically, before sussing them out first, or giving my address out.

Funny one - someone we got an adult dog off years ago had a litter and turned down a person on the strength of a phonecall as they had a pretty gritty, recognizable accent. The next week they were contacted by the receptionist of a fancy dan hotel asking if their manager and his wife could arrange a visit as they wanted to buy a puppy. Long story short, it was the same couple and the dog lived to a ripe old age, running around the hotel grounds, my friends visited a few times and never knew where to look :p
 
Cinnamontoast said:
I‘m going to say that this happens very infrequently Irl with your average puppy buyer (I include myself in the ‘average’ group). My pil sourced our first lot, we went to the farm, picked them up. Current two, went straight to the house, picked them up. Bil’s pup, went to the farm (elderly lady alone), picked a pup, paid, left.
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I have always had a lengthy phone interview and been FB stalked before I have been given a home address. (With the last two, who were being sold by strangers), the first two were a friend of a friend thing.
 
Tiddlypom said:
Thanks for asking, she’s done really well :). She slept through in the kitchen all night and was clean.

She’s been for two walks today. The first one was a lot more eventful than we’d intended, as the hunt arrived early for a local lawn meet and she and OH met the hounds and hunt staff on the road, eek! That was not in the quiet introduction to country ways syllabus that I’d planned, but apparently she was calm. He did pick her up but she wasn’t bothered. She’s seen our horses in their stables and did woof at them, so I will introduce her to them very carefully. She was wary rather than aggressive, which is not a bad thing.

She does like to know where we all are. She loves her toys and her ball, she found this old football in the garden and had a good time dribbling with it. She’s off lead in the garden under supervision, but on lead everywhere else.


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She’s now crashed out on the sofa. It feels like she’s been here for ages.

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I love this! What a fantastic result. :-)
 
I think it hugely depends on the breed too. A whippet for instance, I would have no problem getting the second perhaps six months later. They are a bit more chill.

A collie. Not in a million years. They would likely just play all day and you would become less exciting.
 
Peter7917 said:
I think it hugely depends on the breed too. A whippet for instance, I would have no problem getting the second perhaps six months later. They are a bit more chill.
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Good god no!! Whippets are little gits as puppies. I wait till the youngest is 3 at least before we bring another one in. Floyd is currently 4, and the new girl Lola is just under a year and they play and play and play and play. They absolutely love each other. I've never known 2 dogs be the way they are. They lay together licking each others faces in between bouts of playing. Its fine as they are both adults and have basic training etc, but Lola copies everything Floyd does. If he was still in the naughty puppy stage it would be an absolute nightmare. As it is hes taught her to steal socks, beg for the left over cat food, and to refuse to go out when it rains!
 
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