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[quote=Anonymous]We got a dog a couple months ago with a 7, 5, and 1 year old. It’s been terrific. We got a poodle. We were originally in the market for a cavapoo but then I did a bunch of research, I realized the poodle is the ideal dog. I actually no longer understand why people actually get the mixes / they mix everything with a poodle because they want the benefits of the poodle (no shedding, no drooling, smart, and very healthy breed) but then they dilute all that with the other breed they are mixing with, e.g., King Charles cavaliers are awesome (I grew up with one) but over half of them will have serious cardiac issues which gets passed down to a cavapoo.

Anyway, I digressed on the point of this thread. If you get a dog from a good breeder and the right breed, which in my case has been a moyen poodle, puppies don’t need to be impossible. And she surely isn’t anything like having a newborn as some say - sleeps in the crate 10 hours straight at night. The kids don’t take of the dog’s needs like walking which I already went into this knowing, but they are a huge help with burning off that puppy energy. They adore the dog and spend lots of times chasing it around the house and playing fetch. My oldest is able to also walk the dog right outside the dog for a quick potty break which can be a gigantic help. The puppy is a typical puppy in that she bites everything but she is actually super cautious with the kids compared to adults. She’ll still nip at them to play but she won’t actually hurt them as she unintentionally does to DH and me. With the 1 year old in particular, she is VERY almost intuitively gentle compared to the other, bigger kids. The baby is actually the boss of her which is sort of funny to see. If the dog is jumping to play with the baby, she yells “no” and the dog stops. She also throws toys for the puppy to fetch. The only annoying part about having a 1yo and puppy is she has on a few occasions played with the dog bowls - spilled the water or put the kibble in the water. But after taking an initial taste, she at least hasn’t tried eating the kibble again 😉 oh, and actually the one other temporary downside was my 1yo would try to pick the dog up by the neck which obviously isn’t very safe. After a couple weeks of correcting her on that, she stopped and hasn’t tried doing it in over a month. So it was a short lived and not serious issue since we generally didn’t leave them unsupervised together so could intervene the times it happened.

So all in all, I would get the dog 10/10 times again with these ages. But I’m sure it very much depends on the type of dog you get. I cannot recommend highly enough a poodle - and a moyen in particular as they are the perfect size![/quote]

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