Dog Health Questions: Dog Training Advice!?

I have two juvenile male jack russell terriers. They are both 8 months old and from the same litter. I have had them since they were 8 weeks old, but have known them and seen them every day since they were born. They have very different personalities, Reggie(mine) is very laid back, fairly shy & nervous. Very attached to me and suffers abit with separation anxiety when it comes to me or his brother. Ronnie(my sisters) is very hyper active, can be abit vicious, is possessive over toys and is yappy. They both live in the same house, and sleep together over night in a crate.

When it comes to training, they are house trained and both understand 'Sit'. When they are apart from each other, both will sit and come and will stay with there human(for want of a better word). When they are together though they are uncontrollable! They bark, and pull and often run away!

They are cared for, and exercised mainly by me as my sister works away 5/6 days a week. I want to know if this can be resolved, or if they will always behave this way together? I tried to include as much info as possible to help. Thank you.

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You should work with your sister on being able to call them out of play. Put a light leash on each of them, and let them drag the leash as they play. Then while they play, call your puppy to you, and use the leash to reel him in. Give him a treat for coming to you, then a command (called a release) that tells him he can go back to play again. Repeat this several times during each play session until they willingly come back to you when you call, even from the middle of a game. This is a safety exercise. It is important that they be willing to drop everything and come when you call because some day you might have to call them out of danger (such as being in front of an oncoming car). That also means you don't abuse the emergency call and call them out of play unnecessarily (in a way that ends the game only in a way that pauses the game).

Next, I'd put them in separate crates, each in his own human's room. Actually, by 8 months they're hopefully far enough on toilet training to begin sleeping without a crate. When I first start my pups sleeping out of the crate, a leave them on a leash and attach the leash to my wrist so if they get in too much trouble hopefully the activity will wake me.

Both of your dogs, even with their different personalities, could benefit from NILIF (Nothing in Life is Free). This program makes you the central focus in both dogs' lives, not each other. Just Google NILIF and you'll find all you need to know about this lifestyle.

Enrolling them both in an obedience class would also be beneficial at this time. It will give them the opportunity to meet other dogs and learn new skills. JRTs are intelligent, active dogs. They need the challenge of lifetime training to keep them out of mischief. Training also means one-on-one time between human and dog. That helps to build the bond, the relationship between you. If they spend most of their time with each other, they're going to tend to blow off the humans in their lives as unimportant. You need to be the most important think in your dog's life in order to have a completely fulfilling relationship with him from both your perspectives.

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