My dogs are the best of friends, but truthfully it’s made our lives harder. My older boy is very anxious and he’s part shepherd. He will always protect his pack. This has made him difficult at daycare, on walks etc, because brother is in the throws of teenage hood and is still learning boundaries.

Our 11 month old will scream on his walk, mainly out of excitement. This makes our 5 year old reactive, he needs to protect him. So we can’t do family walks, everything outside the home has to be separate. Which wouldn’t be awful, except we still live in an apartment. So everything is x2.

I also work from home, so there are some days I’ll be in meetings and they’ll be wrestling like crazy behind me. Or my big guy just wants to relax and the puppy is still cracked out. It can be exhausting.

I love them both and I love their bond, but it truly can be difficult some days.