I have a dilemma. I own a young Labrador while my wife has a young English Pointer. Both males. At the moment they share the 'back' verandah and although they have their own beds they choose to share one bed. In a word, at the moment, they get on like the proverbial house on fire (great chums).
We have been advised that it is not a good policy to allow the two dogs to continue in this friendship - they will apparently become too 'dog orientated' and should be separated; that is in 'cages' along side each other but not able to actually 'touch' each other.
I am in the process of building 'kennels' down the backyard. Should I build two inpendent BUT adjacent runs (with a kennel in each) or is it permissbale to have two male dogs share a run?
The 'run' will be some 6x2m with two dogs sharing the space or should I make it 6x4m [that is, two runs of 6x2m adjacnet to ech other] if I have to build two separate runs to keep the dogs apart?
I hope that makes some sense to someone out there.
Julian