Right.
A pair of 7 week old pups are definitely a handful. Most of the advice offered already is very sound, but I'll throw my two cents in as well.
Purina dog food is fine. Personally, I think the higher end stuff is a waste of money; when I was still living at home I helped raise hundreds of dogs on Purina and haven't seen any problems caused by it yet.
As has been said, let them goof around with each other and you can play with them, but don't ever let them get away with biting you. You say you're okay with it now, but Shetlands get to be pretty big and you probably won't be okay with it in a year or two. It'll be easier to just train them not to do it now and be done with it.
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Originally Posted by guccilvr
Be careful with this one. Do not bark commands or use commands harshly. If you do it will cause the command to become a bad term in their book. Instead, shake your penny can, and speak the command in a calm but firm voice.
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Sorry guccilvr, but I'm going to have to call bullshit on this one. A dog doesn't understand a word's meaning. He will understand tone and body language. Those are what you use to communicate. It doesn't even matter what you say to your pups really, so long as you make it clear that you're not happy with them. As long as you're consistent about it, they'll learn to associate your displeasure with their unwanted activity and they'll stop doing it.