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Yup! They're both from Pete Saxon's Odin x Frigga litter.wen wrote:2 at a time, wow.
Are they from the same litter ?
Thank you! If you check out Thor's (RIP) thread on the photos forum you can see pics of most of them. Pete told me that these two were the "terrible twins" and we were definitely a bit nervous waiting for them to get here. But, they're both settling in really well. Full of energy and really eager to explore and learn. Rhea is a bit more outgoing than Sophie but Sophie is incredibly intelligent and very observant. Sophie seems to have already figured out that she isn't supposed to soil the house and she hasn't had an accident all day today. The only problem that we've had with them so far is they really like to talk to us when we're trying to go to bed, tonight will tell if we're making any progress.jyotin wrote:Gorgeous! I wish I could see the rest of the litter so far they are all stunners. And by the way, you two are brave! two at a time woah lol.
I am very jealous!
What a beautiful girls, they certainly don't look like terrible twins! Looks like they have a lot of fun together. And two pups at the same time, I heard that can be difficult, but it never happened with dogs I knew, so I really don't know for sure. Did you heard that too and do you know if that's true? Hope you can keep us updated with a lot of pictures. 
They look great and Im sure will give you much pleasure. It was great chatting to you the other day and Im glad everything is good. So far having two isn't being difficult at all. Rhea seems to be a bit of a faster study than Sophie, but they're both incredibly well behaved. Last night we took them out to a dog friendly restaurant with us and a couple of friends. The girls spent 10 minutes greeting everyone in the shop and then curled up at my feet and fell asleep, except for Sophie talking a little bit, for the rest of the meal. It was amazing.Gaby wrote:Congratulations!
Oops! My bad, didn't realize that you'd gone to pick them out as well. Thought that Lynn had picked them out for us on her own. Thanks for choosing two such wonderful girls for us!blufawn wrote:I have met them too, I picked them out for you......lol and if the microchips ever migrate you can blame me for that as well, they were only the 3rd and 4th dogs I ever microchipped lol
I'm sure everything will be fine.Oh, I love it when she talks to me! And I've been working on my Tamaskan as well. Sometimes we just sit there on the floor and talk to each other for a minute before they jump on me and we start wrestling again. We've already noticed that they make one kind of noise when they want to go out, another when they're lonely, and another when they're talking with each other or us.Saxon wrote:You say they never stop talking, well, if they take after their mother they never will,when i picked Frigga up from Lynn as a pup, lynn said to me this one is very vocal, she started on the drive home and hasnt shut up since, i swear she is really trying to talk to us, but it does kinda grow on you and we have now learnt to speak tamaskan and talk back to her.
How freaking cute! That's great! Nice restaurant too.Onarian wrote:So far having two isn't being difficult at all. Rhea seems to be a bit of a faster study than Sophie, but they're both incredibly well behaved. Last night we took them out to a dog friendly restaurant with us and a couple of friends. The girls spent 10 minutes greeting everyone in the shop and then curled up at my feet and fell asleep, except for Sophie talking a little bit, for the rest of the meal. It was amazing.Gaby wrote:Congratulations!
The problems I heard of were more on the long term. That the dogs do not bond as well with their owner because they have each other and therefore are more difficult to train. But like I said, I don't know from my own experience, I only red/heard about it. I do not ask it to offend you or anything, I'm just curious. Because I hope that it's not the case, it would be so much nicer for puppies to grow up with a brother or sister and always have a playmate! No offense taken and I can only speak from 6 days of experience but so far having the two together has not made bonding or training any more difficult than we expected. But, we do separate them fairly often when we need to work with them. We also make them sleep separately and take them individually on short walks. So far, what seems to be happening is that if we can't interact with them, they interact with each other. But, they're fairly willing to stop whatever they're doing and switch to interacting with us if we want them to. They also seem to be very aware of us even when we're not directly interacting with them. For instance (at the risk of embarrassing myself), earlier this evening I was walking in to another part of the apartment and knocked my head on the door frame so hard I had to stop and sit down. Both Rhea and Sophie stopped wrestling with each other and came over to be with me until I had gotten up again.Gaby wrote:That's great! Nice restaurant too.
but it is important to take each out individually and spend some quality time whilst the other waits patiently at home. You are killing two birds with one stone then...one goes... out the other learns to stay home alone 
The way you are doing it sounds really good.Onarian wrote:No offense taken and I can only speak from 6 days of experience but so far having the two together has not made bonding or training any more difficult than we expected. But, we do separate them fairly often when we need to work with them. We also make them sleep separately and take them individually on short walks. So far, what seems to be happening is that if we can't interact with them, they interact with each other. But, they're fairly willing to stop whatever they're doing and switch to interacting with us if we want them to. They also seem to be very aware of us even when we're not directly interacting with them. For instance (at the risk of embarrassing myself), earlier this evening I was walking in to another part of the apartment and knocked my head on the door frame so hard I had to stop and sit down. Both Rhea and Sophie stopped wrestling with each other and came over to be with me until I had gotten up again.Gaby wrote:That's great! Nice restaurant too.
As for training. Just for example. Right now we're working on having them sit when we get to the front door, either from the inside or the outside, and then to sit again once we get them inside to take off their leashes. Rhea has the routine down 70% of the time, and Sophie maybe 30%. In general how quickly they learn seems to depend more on their personality than whether we have them together or separate. Rhea is inherently much less independent than Sophie, but they're both definitely coming to depend on us.
The only real problem that we seem to be having from there being two of them is they don't seem to be learning their names as quickly as we expected. They respond to their names only a little more than 50% of the time. If anyone has any advice on working with name training we would really appreciate it.
Maybe you could do some kind of game with them. Like calling Rhea by the name and only give her a treat. And then Sophie and give her a treat. So they learn that their name means something nice, but only for the one whose name is called. I don't know if it will work, maybe you can also train them separate from each other. 
The saxon pups look quite alike don't they...I mean Saga and your girls 
