Xeph
Posted : 9/3/2007 3:21:33 AM
Don't get two at once. It's a bad bad bad bad bad bad bad idea.
I don't even know any reputable breeders who will sell two pups to a person at the same time, because of the work involved and the problems that it can create.
I worked at a grooming shop for awhile, and many dogs came in that were littermates and were raised together. They were a major pain in the backside to groom, because if you took them 10 fricken feet away from each other for one to be bathed while the other was in a kennel or being clipped, they screamed, and whined, and barked the ENTIRE TIME! They never shut up, because "OMFG! You took my brudder from me!"
It's beyond obnoxious, it's hard to deal with, and I always dreaded those pairs coming in because I knew I was in for an hour and a half of screaming (at the least...that's if their humans picked them up on time).
The vast majority of people cannot and do not properly rotate the dogs so they bond to the owner rather than each other, and then you have two dogs that go "Eff you! I've got Fifi for a friend! You're not important!"