Mike,
what you are saying makes a lot of sense, I do tend to separate them for things like training and walks just because it is so much easier to work with one dog at a time than with both of them.

They do have vastly different temperaments and personalities.

Yote is also the younger and more active, more in need of training and likes to work so he is the more demanding of the two, so it is easy for me to give him way more time and attention than Loki gets. The only behavioral problem we have ever had with Loki is the whole when someone comes in the door he looses his mind issue.

They spend most of their time together, and are together in the house all the time when we are home. They just spent an hour playing ball with me then chasing each other around like a couple of idiots in the back yard.
The reason I am taking them out separately right now is to avoid the doorway issues they have had while we work on the other training. Once they are in or outside they are together again.

They are separated when we aren't home but that is also because Yote can not be left loose in the house when no one is here, he gets into things and is destructive and his favorite past-time is shredding.

As you can see from my new sig picture they normally get along just fine. Ignoring each other in the house for the most part and playing like a couple of idiots in the back yard. They chase each other and play keep away and wrestle with no problems at all


So far so good with the new management in regards to the doorway issues. Yote seems to have figured out that he is only going to be clipped to the deck for a few seconds so he is no longer doing the fish out of water flopping and screaming at the top of his lungs thing.

This dog has temper tantrums like I have never seen in my life....the neighbors probably think I am killing him sometimes.

The guest coming over training with Loki didn't go so well. We worked on it for about half and hour and never could get him to focus on anything but the new person coming in the door. he just gets so damn overexcited. after nearly 45 minutes

We ended up just putting him and nico together in the bedroom and then letting him out after about half on hour on the leash and putting him in a sit for her to give him treats.

We will keep working on the "bed" command so maybe eventually he will so that when someone comes in.