I do a lot of hating on puppies. I love puppies, but I also spend a lot of time warning people that puppies are not even a little bit as easy as you think they’re going to be. Getting a puppy is a little bit like having a toddler!
However, it’s not always the puppy causing the problems. Sometimes, their grown siblings are the ones teaching them to be troublemakers! That was the case for one Golden Retriever puppy, whose big Vizsla sibling was schooling him in horsing around:
Miller and Cash did not take long at all to match each other’s freak, that’s for sure. The two of them get along so well, and their mom is just so, so tired!
Miller is only about 10 weeks old. He was a Christmas puppy, and he’s going to be training to be a therapy dog as soon as possible! Golden Retrievers are an excellent choice for that type of work, luckily, so I have high hopes… Though Cash might not make it easy.
Typically, there’s a little bit of an adjustment period needed. My middle dog didn’t go near our youngest puppy for a month after we brought her home, and 2.5 years later, he still doesn’t really like her very much! That’s not Miller and Cash, though. They hit it off right away:
