My first dog was a bedlington terrier named Archibald. i got him for my fourth birthday and after 20 years he passed away. I was blown away. After spending 20 years with a dog he not only becomes your best friend, but also a part of the family. When he died I thought I didn't want another dog for a while, but after 2 years I really really wanted another dog. I looked around and decided to get a fox terrier. I did not know about Cesar Milan back then Smiling so I got a high energy dog and was not really prepared for that. Going to pick out Luca was so much fun. Three pups running around in garden and trying to tackle each other when they could. Luca was very calm so when the day came to take him home I though this was going to be easy. The first time I left him alone he broke out of the bench and decided to destroy every shoe he could find. He is a master in getting all the insides out. You do learn to clean up everything this way. Come christmas Luca thought that the gifts under the tree were also meant for him. He wanted to beautify himself and unwrapped the bodylotion. Bit the tube so that all the lotion came out. He smelled great for weeks. He is also a big fan of lipgloss and especially if it's in a little case or tin. He can open up the tin or case and just lick all the gloss out. Luca is very high energy and extremely protective of me which means no other dogs are allowed near me which is quite a challenge when you take him out for walks.
After 4 years I was still in love with the breed of bedlington so started looking around and found a breeder. I was in luck, she was just about to have a litter so I got put on a waiting list. In January she called me and had the litter and another stroke of luck there was a puppy there for me. After the pups were 4 weeks I could come and visit them so that afternoon I was surrounded by 4 beautiful puppy's who were trying to get my attention. I had the choice between two males. I chose Lance, he was the smallest and the names together were just so cute.  Now with bedlingtons there is not much difference between them they are almost all the same in temper. Always very happy and calm. They can get over excited, but that usually happens once a day with what I call crazy 5 minutes. He just runs around the house and jumps from couch to couch barks and ends up on the bed just spinning and barking trying to dig his way to china.
Bringing Lance home was a bit of a task. I took Luca for a long walk trying to lower his energy and then introduce him to Lance. In the beginning he thought Lance was toy so he was very confused when he started to see that Lance was doing things on his own. The first months I had to keep an eye on both of them. Luca weighs 12 kilo and Lance back then was just 2 kilo. Next to that Luca can be a bit clumsy and in your face so when he saw Lance he didn't really get that you need to be gentle with a puppy. For a split second i thought it wouldn't work out, but one night i had some people over to come and see the new baby and Lance wasn't having any fun so after a while he made sure to let us know that he didn't wanted to be held anymore. Luca stepped up to the plate. He started checking Lance out to see if he was ok. After that they were perfect together.
Now we're nearly 3 years later now and both are thick as thieves. The only difference is when I go out and have to leave the dogs behind for a couple of hours Luca still goes on the rampage and tries to find things he can destroy and Lance just curls up on his comfy chair and relaxes. He falls asleep and when I come home I have the best of both worlds. Luca jumps up and down behind the door (think doctor doolittle) and Lance takes at least 5 minutes before he comes and looks for you stretching out and still a bit sleepy.
I have my high energy dog and my mellowed out one and both of them together work great!!