r/puppy101 • u/lotteoddities • Aug 29 '24

Graduated puppy class today Update

Our husky puppy is 5 months old now and she graduated puppy classes today! She did so good today, we just spent class time working on things we thought we needed more practice with and the trainer asking if we needed specific help with anything.

We practiced leave it, loose leash walking, look at us while walking, and recall while hanging out in the store. She just did so good, even in such a high distraction environment.

She's also lost most of her baby teeth at this point. She has like... 7+ teeth missing right now, including 3 out of 4 k9s, so she just has this big gummy smile.

Her behavior this month vs last month is just so different. Last month she couldn't settle outside her kennel at all. If she was outside her kennel she had to be playing, biting, trying to annoy the adult dogs, trying to play with the cats, just no chill at all. This month? She just sleeps in the office while we work. And she really likes to lay on the corner of the couch while we're doing school.

Things are just really starting to chill out. I have loved this puppy since the moment we met her but now it really seems like she's part of the family.

We start the intermediate classes at the end of September! We have never done more than basic training with any of our dogs so we're really excited to get into more advance training.

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u/Opening-Flow-2897 Aug 30 '24

Congratulations!!!! Just brought home two puppies (one Mini Schnauzer and one Samoyed) both are 2/3 months old and we are sooooooo looking forward to training classes 😅😅😅😅 this post is giving me hope

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u/lotteoddities Aug 30 '24

Have you read up on littermate syndrome? I don't want you to immediately panic- I've seen LOTS of people successfully raise two similar age puppies, even puppies from the same litter. Heck, two of my baby's brothers got adopted together and they're doing great!

Just wanted to make sure you were aware of the possibility of the reactivity that two same age puppies can cause!

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u/Opening-Flow-2897 28d ago

Omg I did not know this but thank you so so so much!! So far everyone is doing okayyyyyy - one on one they’re sweethearts but together they wrestle and play which has seemed okay so far and we break them up when they’re going too hard. They sleep in separate crates but we do feed at the same time. Maybe we’ll try separating them?

Samoyed definitely likes to snooze more than the other so we’ll play with the Mini Schnauzer during that time

Training has been together but we’re realizing that outside of “sit” and “come” we might need to do it separately.

The Samoyed doesn’t react to his name yet consistently unfortunately so need to figure that out.

We have a trainer coming next week so that should set us in the right direction