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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 679374" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>With Katy and Ragan, it would have been OK if one of them had been a male. Or if Katy had been a puppy when I got her instead of two years old. I first got Ragan as an 8 week old puppy when my first Boston, also a female, was 11. They never really played together but they got along fine because Ragan came in as a puppy. Ragan tends to be the alpha dog type, a pushy little booger. And Katy has never had anything to do with other dogs. It's really not her fault though. I'm her third owner. The first one decided to make a breeder out of her and separated her from her mother and littermates way too early. They need that time with their litter to be properly socialized with other dogs. And then this woman raised her alone in a pen with no contact with other dogs at all. All the attention she got and all her socialization was with people. As a result, she absolutely loves people, friendliest dog on the planet. But she never had the chance to learn to play with other dogs, she sees them only as rivals and has no use for them at all. It's funny but she is curious about my outside cats and will tolerate them as long as they don't annoy her. But she has no use for other dogs at all. It does complicate things a lot but it's not her fault. I just wish I had been able to get her when she was a puppy. That crazy woman that first had her bred her way too soon and she had already given birth to two litters of puppies before her second birthday. No more!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 679374, member: 1883"] With Katy and Ragan, it would have been OK if one of them had been a male. Or if Katy had been a puppy when I got her instead of two years old. I first got Ragan as an 8 week old puppy when my first Boston, also a female, was 11. They never really played together but they got along fine because Ragan came in as a puppy. Ragan tends to be the alpha dog type, a pushy little booger. And Katy has never had anything to do with other dogs. It's really not her fault though. I'm her third owner. The first one decided to make a breeder out of her and separated her from her mother and littermates way too early. They need that time with their litter to be properly socialized with other dogs. And then this woman raised her alone in a pen with no contact with other dogs at all. All the attention she got and all her socialization was with people. As a result, she absolutely loves people, friendliest dog on the planet. But she never had the chance to learn to play with other dogs, she sees them only as rivals and has no use for them at all. It's funny but she is curious about my outside cats and will tolerate them as long as they don't annoy her. But she has no use for other dogs at all. It does complicate things a lot but it's not her fault. I just wish I had been able to get her when she was a puppy. That crazy woman that first had her bred her way too soon and she had already given birth to two litters of puppies before her second birthday. No more! [/QUOTE]
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