first post! advice on new puppies

Soundtrack is right, that's just playing... see first video clip below!!!!

Like you, I had two puppies (sisters) together from the same litter just over two years ago and they are just an absolute joy.

What you will probably find, if yours are like mine... that they are ABSOLUTELY INSEPARABLE and do not like being apart... they do everything together and if one is sleeping during the day, then the other is too and if one gets up, so does the other. If one goes out into the garden, then the other one follows... maybe it's a girlie thing and your boys may not be the same, but please hang around to let me know of their progress as having two together is just the best thing we've done and being so alike, they always get fussed over when we're out walking as they are clearly twins!!!!

I'll look for a couple of video clips of my two, who, because we got them at the end of June 2008, spent many hours running around the garden in the warm weather for much of their days through the summer, with resting together in between their playfullness, to recharge their batteries. I knew I couldn't walk them until they were older but with their playing and running around, they got plenty of exercise and could rest as they felt like it.... and they are two very happy girls.

Lots of clips here at different ages!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Lucie+and+Lottie+Basset+Hounds&aq=f


My two just played for ages like these clips below! Here's my two at ten weeks of age having a rough and tumble and they still play like this now... something that single pups miss out on!



Here they are a week younger than your two in the first couple of clips... they have masses of toys, yet liked sharing a piece of dowel:






From being around 6 months of age, Lottie (slightly shorter than Lucie) started sitting up for treats and does it anywhere and everywhere as she loves the attention her endless sitting up gets from people who see her doing it!!! SHe can balance for absolutely ages if she wants to and always sits for her supper of a few biscuits!!

Ben, your Bassets are gorgeous... I'd get them both neutered if I were you.. it should make them play less aggressively, although I suspect they're not hurting each other and they won't mean to bite you as it's just play with sharp puppy teeth!!

Awww thanks sadeyes2... Lucie and Lottie have always been such a happy pair and still very playful at 2yrs 6mths and they both love playing with their furry footballs that they either chase around the house by pushing them along, or I throw them along the passage between the hall and lounge and they run after them and bring them back or I throw them and they'll catch them in their mouths, as they are squishy and have squeakers inside so they run round squeaking them!

Lottie steals things (far too many, including butter, eggs, cheese, pork chops, minced steak etc) from the kitchen tops if not pushed far enough back and one day I noticed a punnet of nectarines was missing and she had them all over the lawn playing with like balls... she has also had satsumas outside playing with and clearly doesn't like the taste of them, unlike apples she's had outside with bites taken out of them!!!