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u/Sandersims · 2 pointsr/caninebehavior

We adopted our cocker spaniel when she was about 2. She'd been severely neglected. She has no idea what toys are. She had no idea how to play.

After 3 years of effort we have made some progress.

  • She likes this treat ball, and only this treat ball. She's very food oriented (hello, cocker!) and will roll it about hopefully even after the treats are gone.

  • She recently began to play chase the ball with our standard poodle. She won't bring the ball back.

  • She plays gentle games of patpaw and pushyface.

    She enjoys chewing on Nylabones and regular bones, but won't touch a kong.


    I don't think she'll ever be terribly playful, but I've never found female cockers to be very playful anyway. Perhaps your dog is simply more serious minded?

    Her favorite activity is checking the perimeter of our fenced yard. It is quite large, with chipmunks, squirrels, and rabbits. She absolutely loves it, and flushes small animals from the bushes for the st.poodle to chase down and...

    Well. I won't elaborate. Some people are squeamish. But they're quite a team.

    Maybe your dog would like to learn some tricks. Perhaps a job, like opening drawers or turning lights on/off.

    Good luck. I know it is disconcerting to have a dog that doesn't respond to any toys.
u/manatee1010 · 3 pointsr/caninebehavior

Here's the book everyone always mentions with the guide dog study. My limited understanding of the study is that it was so narrow in scope that it doesn't generalize well. I too have searched for empirical evidence of the "syndrome" but have come up empty handed.


I keep contemplating buying a copy of the book to read the study out of genuine curiosity, but haven't been motivated enough yet.


Personally, I:

  • Probably wouldn't buy from a breeder who would sell me littermates, because they are probably not a reputable one.
  • Would never want to raise two puppies at the same time (OMG one at a time is bad enough)
  • Would never want two adult bitches living in my house (the whole "bitch fighting" thing really scares me, I have multiple friends who own dogs that cannot ever be in the same room together)


    Beyond littermate syndrome or bitch fighting, the things that should be of primary concern to anyone crazy enough to buy two puppies:

  • Socialize them SEPARATELY
  • Train them SEPARATELY
  • Make sure they spend a substantial amount of time APART each day


    This is because you don't want the dogs more tightly bonded to each other than to a person, and also because you don't want either dog to grow up to be an animal that lacks confidence when its buddy isn't there to back it up.


    The good news(?) is that if they're buying BMDs from a shady breeder willing to sell them two littermates, any problems that develop are going to be very limited in terms of scope of time because of the multitude of health problems plaguing the breed. Even well bred BMDs are lucky to make it to 6 or 7... I'm pretty sure the old saying about them is "Two years a young dog, two years a good dog, two years an old dog. Anything else is a gift from god."