HI elh1015...welcome and CONGRATS!
1. Max our F1 labradoodle was 7mos old when we brought home our 2nd doodle Peanut who was only 9 weeks old (last Feb 2006)
WE found that crating Peanut was good for NAPS, potty training, and at night time we put her crate next to our bed while letting Max sleep on the end of our bed
2. Max would get overexcited and needed watching too, he didn't hurt Peanut just that he didn't know when to stop playing hahahhaaa and calmed down a few weeks later
3. I do NOT crate them together as IMO I find they should have some separate time. Also we still do one on one's with both of them
4. Max and Peanut were on different schedules except for eating, it worked out just fine
5. OH i did have to monitor them eating ...so Peanut was trained in a matter of a week to SIT and wait to eat until I say "OK" which max already knew. It TREMENDOUSLY helped and they didn't eat each others food.
I also found tethering Peanut to us in the beginning also helped in monitoring activity, play times, potty training and so Peanut also didn't get into anything harmful.
to this day, they are so close and play 24/7.....CONGRATS once again
1. Max our F1 labradoodle was 7mos old when we brought home our 2nd doodle Peanut who was only 9 weeks old (last Feb 2006)
WE found that crating Peanut was good for NAPS, potty training, and at night time we put her crate next to our bed while letting Max sleep on the end of our bed
2. Max would get overexcited and needed watching too, he didn't hurt Peanut just that he didn't know when to stop playing hahahhaaa and calmed down a few weeks later
3. I do NOT crate them together as IMO I find they should have some separate time. Also we still do one on one's with both of them
4. Max and Peanut were on different schedules except for eating, it worked out just fine
5. OH i did have to monitor them eating ...so Peanut was trained in a matter of a week to SIT and wait to eat until I say "OK" which max already knew. It TREMENDOUSLY helped and they didn't eat each others food.
I also found tethering Peanut to us in the beginning also helped in monitoring activity, play times, potty training and so Peanut also didn't get into anything harmful.
to this day, they are so close and play 24/7.....CONGRATS once again