We have been doing one on one training with Bear for over a month now. We will try and add her to his class or have a seperate one. The sleep doesn't bother me becasue I have 2 kids that had reflux after they were born.She's adorable...fingers and paws crossed for you!
Be prepared though if you're gonna take Greta on. Bear is just a baby himself if I remember correctly and with two puppies training will be three times as hard as they will probably cause setbacks in each others training. Get lots of sleep, you'll probably need it
From someone who had a 14 month old, a 5 month old and a 10 week old all at the same time, I can tell you that training them wasn't too much harder.
We adopted Bear as a Newfie/Newfie Mix but only time will tell what he finally turns out to be. I saw on another thread about the DNA testing and I think I might do it with him. When we adopted Bear we were told he was good with other dogs but we found out that wasn't true. He had never been around other dogs so we focused on that in training. He has done leaps and bounds since the first class. Now he doesn't mind other dogs which is wonderful. I know they guess about the bread which makes me also wonder about her. I have researched both breeds but I am wondering what the dominant breed is.She is adorable...
Just a word of caution when getting a "newf" or really any kind of mix, they try their best to identify the breed when adopting out dogs but they can be unintentionally decieving. I adopted a Newfie mix (found on Petfinder) about 4 years ago, as time went on we thought she was actually a border collie/Newf mix. Eventually at an obedience class someone suggested she was an akita mix. Sami is a beautiful dog that I love dearly. :heart: As she got older I found that she is VERY dog aggressive to dogs outside the family... that is typical of Akitas. I had her DNA tested (mostly because I am a geek about the breeds) and it turns out she is Akita, Springer Spaniel mostly and about 4 others breeds in her. We are lucky that we can manage her, but she certainly wasn't what I was looking for. Several years later I did get my Newf Kona and they are best of sisters. We even call them twins from different mothers because their markings are so similiar!
Just be aware that you may get something very different than you expect.
Here is a picture of my girls, Sami and Kona with their cousin the brittany
Bear is now 9 months
. I figured I would try and train them together and see how it goes. I would love if they could handle that and not goof up too much.
Good luck Ronnie
