i guess it is just me but i find that i cannot give more then two enuff attention..more then two and we end up with a pecking order. I don't want any animal to feel that i love it less then another, or that they are less important. When we had Sally she was such an omega in the first place and the other puppies would take away her toys, and wouldn't play with her. Bronki was my right hand, Mary my left and poor sally would sit up half the night after the others waiting for her one on one time with me. i finally ended up making certain days of the week Sally days, her special day to sleep next to me, get treats first, and be absolutely the most special. She knew her day too, for she would race to bed, leap up to my pillow and show everyone else her snarling teeth. All Sally ever wanted was to be someone's special. I finally found a home for her with a man that was a friend of Jim's. He took her everywhere he went, he said she even got in the shower with him. He adored her and even tho she was hit by a car the next year, i never regretted letting him have her. he gave her what i could not, the love for just her that she craved so badly. After that i stayed with two and two only.