I just recenlty bought another chow chow, she's 4 months old. We alos have a 5 month old male chow as well. They get along ok, a love hate relationship, playing together, sleeping together, fighting over toys but over all she is really energetic with him and him only. She just got over a cold but we just took her to the vet and was diagnosed with an upper resp. problem, now on meds. But my concern also is that she always shy's away from us and then will walk very slowy towards us or just run or walk away? Is this because she is sick or could she not like us but only her new buddy the male chow. We're really worried she may not open up to us and will only be herself around our other pup. Any ideas? or training tips to help her get over this? Our other pup is great and learning the basic commands very quickly. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Lee,
I hate to say this but you sound like you're headed for trouble having two young dogs. Your female sounds bonded to the male puppy, and Chows are not the most social of dogs to begin with. So your female gets the attention that she needs/desires from your male puppy, and she doesn't need jack from you -

From your other thread you're explaining a problem with your male's relationship with your significant other. Add a female puppy to the mix that apparently doesn't really care for the owners and you have a volatile mixture when the two dogs mature.

Getting two young dogs together is usually a bad idea. Letting the two dogs interact so much that they prefer each others company to your company is usually a really bad idea.

Find a home for one of the two dogs and seek out a trainer to get your problem fixed with whichever one you keep.

Sorry, I'm sure this isn't what you what to hear, but it's the best advice.

From what I have seen of your posts:

1) You have two puppies
2) You have a boyfriend that barely knows what end of a dog is what (anyone that buys a dog as a Christmas present doesn't know what they are doing)
3) you have two pups from questionable breeders (one for selling Christmas puppies, the other for selling a dog to a home with another puppy)
4) the dogs in question are Chows

Seperate them. One dog is yours, one is the boyfriends. They lead seperate lives except for a little playtime. Have a trainer evaluate the situation (come to your home and suggest ways to set up your living situation) and start puppy classes. If you and your boyfriend aren't willing to give up a lot of together time to do right by these dogs then find one a new home. raising two pups of any breed is a HUGE challenge for anyone. Make that two people without a lot of dog experience with two chows and the challenge might be more than you want to handle.

As Will mentioned, Chows are very likely to form packs and not give you the time of day. You are essentially an annoying "pet" as far as the dogs are concerned unless you make serious changes. One day you will become an unwanted "pet" and one of the dogs will let you know it. No, I am not a dog trainer. Just a dog owner that has seen this happen to other people, usually with very unpleasant results. I also had the displeasure of having to restrain a few of these types of dogs while working for a vet in high school. They don't view humans as part of their pack and would as soon bite you as let you do something to them. Not how you want your dogs to turn out, so take the time to make changes before it is absolutely too late.

I'm sure that you love your pups very much. So, with that in mind, do the right thing here....don't be selfish. Rehome. I AM a trainer and know from past experience that you are asking for trouble with two young pups. Especialy with this breed. Did either of you do any research on the breed or was this an "impulse" thing? The breed requires a very firm hand or they will proceed to find trouble...which is usually in the form of aggression. Have you started any formal training either of them yet? Bite the bullet, rehome one of them, and get a private trainer to work with the other one...you'll be glad that you did!

Speaking from experience with dogs that like to pack up (siberians). Keep them apart execpt for supervised play. Young puppies who are left for a long time with other dogs will look to the older dog for guidance and fun and not to you. I have a 15 month old siberian and a 10 week old siberian, the baby still looks to me for guidance and fun and I hope to keep it that way. Get those dogs in crates, if you cant watch them they go in the crate. I like the suggestion best of rehoming. Two pups, same age, packing up leads to no fun when they are older. Trying to train them will be such a pain, they wont want to listen to you but instead eachother. Even my 15 month old who is in advanced training class thinks twice when the puppy is around as to whether or not he should listen to me.