If you have a massively boisterous teenage dog...

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Does it help if they have a playmate? Or do you just have to up the exercise and training until they calm down?
BubblePup is probably almost a year now but seems to spend his life looking for another dog to play with. In term times he mostly walks with a few other dogs every day, but since the school hols everyone's routines have changed and he hasn't seen any of his doggy mates in a while.
Dogs 1 & 2 just roll their eyes and won't have any of it for most of the time, he is way to boisterous for them now aged 6 and fairly sedate.
This morning DH asked if the best thing for all three would be to get another youngish dog. While I am very tempted I also think we may be just humanising Bubble pup and he's actually fine?
A dog that is very obviously from the same litter ( he's quite an distinctive mix ) is now in a rescue near the one where we adopted BubblePup, so we could have twins and would be known as the mad scary dog family

If you adopt another you will just have 2 massively boisterous teenage dogs.....

Yep, two massively boisterous teenage dogs using your house as a doggy playground...

We got a second dog for our boisterous 13 month old.

They are great together and wear one another out. Definite improvement.

It doesn't help as you have two young dogs to control instead of one. And they ignore you in favour of the other dog. Training needs to be done one-to-one which is difficult when you have two. He will grow out of his teenage phase and you can currently concentrate on training him as the other two are sedate.

I now have a 15 month old and a 12 month old, as minding a friend's dog long term - the 15 month old (my one) is very well trained but its still hard work!

That doesn't bother me as such. We have the space,the house is already trashed. Ddogs 1 & 2 are from the same litter and came to to us as very young pups, so they always had each other to play with when they were at that stage. I love watching how they communicate with each other and enjoy just hanging out together. BubblePup is doing really well and is already calming down, he just loves a good wrestle with another pup his own size ok I know I am humanising him he will be fine

Oops, cross posted. I meant the house as a doggy playground doesn't really bother me.
The new dog not being so well trained is a big consideration though, given that around here most dogs of that age end up in rescue precisely because they have had no training

I've just got an 8 month old GSD X, he came from Ireland when about two months old, was adopted with a littermate then returned to the rescue after 5 months because owners couldn't cope with two dogs
I walk him separately from my other dog (2 yr old lab who needs long walks) and do a lot of training which I love but have to get up at 5.30 am to fit it all in.
I don't think adolescent dogs need another the same age to live with. Both my dogs get all their play, wrestling etc with other dogs they meet on walks and are happy to just chill out at home.