just wondering if anyone has bought 2 puppys out of the same litter ?2 males to be exact,if so how do they get on, and would you do it again?

I didn't go out and buy two males pups; with my last litter absolutely nobody wanted dog puppies, only bitches, so we were left with the boys - thank heavens there were only two!

They're now nearly 6 years old, and most of the time get on all right, though they have their dodgy moments. Would I do it again. No, no, no, no, no. Not a chance.

Not bought, but kept 2 Staff boys from my bitch's litter 2 years ago.  It has been a bittersweet experience and one I will NOT be repeating again in a hurry...it has not just been double trouble but trouble quadrupled, at least for the first year or so.  Housetraining, lead training, obedience - it is never ending when you have two as you have to concentrate on them singly so you are constantly training, mopping up, removing chewed things, training, feeding, and then I also had the bitch as well to love and cuddle and exercise etc. 

The boys are now nearly mature and have an established pecking order - mum is top dog, then Marmaduke and then Beetle.  The boys adore one another and get on exceptionally well, as they do with all other dogs...however, this may be the exception as opposed to the norm and I am very aware of other litter brothers (not just Staffs) who are separated permanently as they fight.  Perhaps I am lucky as Beetle is very submissive and that alleviates any friction/tension there maybe with two competing adult males.  Both dogs are entire.

I consider myself a very experienced dog owner and trainer, having trained and shown dogs all my life and having had a wide variety of breeds from Westies, Dachsunds, Flatcoats and Great Danes and now the Staffs, and I would certainly not ever have 2 pups again, either siblings or close in age as it is exceptionally hard work and can be fraught with difficulties ie separation anxiety if the pups are apart; not trained properly; etc etc.

Now the boys are nearly 2 years old, and everything has settled and all their training is well-established and progressing nicely and they are a joy to be with...but it has taken nearly 2 years of hard slog to get them all to this stage, and it sure as heck would have been easier if there had only been one! :-)

So in answer to your question, they get on great but no, I would never do it again.

Juliet I cant believe your two are two already :D
Hasnt that flown :)

I also kept two from the same litter, and all I can say is NEVER again. It's much more than twice the work, they are still at two years old, not as sociable as my other dogs, as they much prefer to stick together in their little gang as it were. They interact together all the time and everyone else is an interloper that gets mugged in no uncertain terms.

Never again.

Dawn R.

Yes I have 2 boys from the same litter.  Yes it has been hard work, but well worth it :)  I did not intend to have 2, it just happened.  I went to see the litter and I picked the pup that I liked, they were about 6 weeks at the time. In the following 2 weeks the pup that I had picked became poorly and was under vet treatment. Breeder notified me, but there was only one pup left.  It was thought that the first pup I picked may have a congenital defect so the breeder was going to keep him, so we had the other pup.  After about 6 weeks I had a christmas card from the breeder wishing us well, and she had also written that Little "Boris" was now well and it turned out to be nothing more than a very bad bladder infection and that he did not have the deformities originally thought.  I was on the phone straight away,  He was a lovely pup and I had fallen in love with him, he was my pup.  Not that I did not love the one I had at home, I did, but there was just something special about the other one.  They now live happily together, but the fact that I got them almost 2 months apart has probably helped to some degree.  They are now 2yrs old and I am looking forward to the arrival of my new pup in June. (only the one this time :D)

In my opinion it relaly depends, what breed is it that you have?  I have known many people to be successful and some that are not!

Scarey what breed of dogs do you have? :)

I had two staffies same age but different litters

Yes

We had two litter mates both boys they were German Shepherds, we still have one who is 13 years the other has passed on.  They were the most wonderful dogs and unlike all the horror stories you hear of the two dogs bonding to one another better than you did not happen.

When they were pups, yes they got into mischief, one even managed to break his back paw and was in plaster for 3 months nearly.

I would not say they were more difficult than one puppy in actual fact those two were much easier than just the one I have at the moment :O 
Thankfully he has now gotten passed the puppy stage, the teenage stage and the i cant hear you stage and at Two is turning out to be a wonderful dog.

Jane

Ps  this could of course be hind sight and looking back with rose tinted specs. 

Yes we had 2 border collie males from the same litter. They get on well, sleep together cause mischief galore(especially loo roll!) I am glad we had 2 they are great and yes I would do it again.

yes i did it once and NEVER again. fine at first, it just decended into a game of who could do the most toilet in the house as the battle for domination began after a couple of [clean] weeks! they got quite aggressive with each other too - and it wasn't just puppies playing.
we had to rehome one of them so it worked out ok in the end but the whole experience wasn't fun.

I have known two people who did this and both say never again. The first had two Tervs, male and female. She bonded well with the boy but never really had a chance to bond with the bitch as she was more interested in her brother. She was a very experienced dog handler and got them for obedience so she knew what she was doing re. playing/walking separately etc, but it made no difference.

The second got two collies, again a male and female. She had no trouble with the bonding side but is constantly complaining about how much hard work they are. For example, one of them is not 100% with other dogs and although the other is ok, as he is reaching 18mths, he too is picking up her vibes with other dogs and has started barking, growling when he sees one he doesn't know. Proves the nature/nurture debate theory that one does! ;-)

It has to be said in both cases the 'problem' dog has been the bitch, surprise, surprise, but I still wouldn't recommend it. One is bad enough, why anyone would want to make it worse is beyond me! :p