Why Buy Two Protection Dogs? | Family Protection Dog Pairs by CPI

Hey guys, it's Abby from CPI again. In this episode we're going to be talking about why you should or would buy two or a pair of protection dogs. Here we have Jules, Juliet, and Rome, Romeo. For us, the reasons that you would buy two protection dogs would be if one is primarily going to be handled by, let's say, the husband and one's primarily going to be handled by the wife. So you each get your own because these dogs really do a lot of times bond to a family, but they gravitate towards one person. They're going to love everybody, but they follow around the person that's going to be primarily handling them. If the wife primarily handles the dog, then she has, let's say, Juliet, and then the husband brings the dog to work every day, so they each have their own separate dogs. So you have protection both with you at home for the wife, whether she's working or wherever, and then with the husband. The other reason would be kids. You can have one out in public, you can have one at the house, whether you're at home or whether your kids are at home. You have two that are integrated together, but they kind of work separately. The whole reason that we started selling pairs in the first place is because we had so many repeat clients that would buy a male and then come back six months to two years later saying, we want another dog. So we recommend typically that whenever we are selling another dog that they then get a female because it's just easier. It's easier than having to find the perfect male because the truth is, whenever you have a dog of this caliber, they're fairly dominant creatures. They have to be fairly dominant in order to be willing to fight a fully grown man. To have two of those, it can be more to manage, but having a male and a female, they coexist super, super well together. With Romeo and Juliet, their family requested one is for the wife, one is for the husband. So they both heal on the left. They'll heal on the left separately with two different handlers and they'll heal on the left together. Typically, whenever we train pairs, for example, Bono and Bowie, one heals on the left, one heals on the right when they're handled by one person. But the dog that heals on the right will also heal on the left if they're told. We've sold two males together and they still do good, but it's harder to find two dominant males that will go together and not have issues. In this case with Romeo and Juliet, we made sure that they were a good fit, that one wasn't dominating the other, that they could just coexist well. Once they came over to Dallas, we start working on doing obedience together, playing together, being respectful of each other together. It's just preparing them from the second that we select them in Europe, preparing them to live together. So that's a big reason that I would recommend if you know in the future that, okay, hey, I want one. My wife really wants to have one of her own or vice versa, that buying them together is the better option just so that they have that bond already. And we get to do the training here ourselves instead of if one was bought and then another one was delivered two months or six months to two years later. We have to work those scenarios over the course of a three to five day delivery. And that can be a little bit trickier, just getting them comfortable doing those things. Let's say Rome was the first dog that they got. They have Rome for six months, two years. Rome's very comfortable in their house, very comfortable with the family. Then you bring a second dog in. You have to then on the three to five day delivery, you have to get them comfortable biting together, doing obedience together. It's a lot more work or you could send them to us, but it's not as baseline as all the way in Europe. They're testing, playing together, making sure that it's a good fit. So the fact that we have them for so long, we had Romeo and Juliet since the time that we purchased them in Europe for about a year now. So from that point, we originally bought them with hopes that they would make a good pair. One of our big goals in selling pairs is that we just make having two dogs as easy as possible for the new owner to then take over. So it goes as far as just grooming, jumping in the car together, being comfortable laying in the car together, going to the vet, just taking them in together, walking on leash, because our dogs are primarily off leash and most of their life will be spent off leash. But in certain places, we still take our dogs on leash. You take your dogs on leash in an airport, you take your dogs on leash in a vet. So these are just a couple of our points of why we think that it would be beneficial to buy two dogs at the same time. As always, if you guys have any questions or if you want anything answered about why we do what we do or the way that we train, we would love to keep making these videos. We want to make it a safer place for people to buy protection dogs. This industry is very unregulated. We really try to sell the best protection dogs that we can possibly sell, make them as safe, friendly, and family-oriented as possible. So we're just trying to educate people and get people to recognize that, hey, watch videos, learn about this stuff, and don't just take people for what they say. Look at the videos. If their dogs can do it, they'll show it on video.