3kids1cav
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Bentley is 10 months old, I was thinking I would want a second in two years give or take, when my 3 year old son is 5 and in school all day, since he can be a handful. But My 9 year old daughter is doing an easy/report/speech project on cavaliers for school, and I have been doing a ton of research with her (I am learning more and more, and I thought I knew it all when it came to the breed) Anyways, I was reading the part about cavaliers getting lonely, and how if you have to work consider having a second cav.
I have to go back to work part time when my 3 year old is in school (fall 2014) I will be out of the house for 5 hrs straight (8 am to 1 pm) the plan was to get home, walk Bentley for an hr, and then get in the car and pick up the kids. This will be 4 days a week most likely. But after reading this and thinking about how attached Bentley is to me, I wonder if I should consider getting another cav next spring or the following fall, so that the new cavalier will be over a year when I have to go back to work, and it won't be too long (as I think that is too long for a puppy to be home alone in the crate)
Would it be ok to wait the two years and have a roughly 6 month old pup when I Go back to work? or should I get a cav earlier, so Bentley has a companion for when he is with out his human family? What timing worked for the rest of you multiple cav owners?
I have to go back to work part time when my 3 year old is in school (fall 2014) I will be out of the house for 5 hrs straight (8 am to 1 pm) the plan was to get home, walk Bentley for an hr, and then get in the car and pick up the kids. This will be 4 days a week most likely. But after reading this and thinking about how attached Bentley is to me, I wonder if I should consider getting another cav next spring or the following fall, so that the new cavalier will be over a year when I have to go back to work, and it won't be too long (as I think that is too long for a puppy to be home alone in the crate)
Would it be ok to wait the two years and have a roughly 6 month old pup when I Go back to work? or should I get a cav earlier, so Bentley has a companion for when he is with out his human family? What timing worked for the rest of you multiple cav owners?
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