Question:
Will my new puppy get along with my older dog?
anonymous
2012-05-02 19:29:27 UTC
I have an eight year old male maltese that I love to death, but I am getting a new puppy. I am not sure that he will get along with it, though, even though he does get along with most other dogs and people. I am getting a female yorkshire terrier/maltese mix. I am wondering if anyone out there has experienced a situation similar to this! Thank you for reading my question, and I appreciate any mature responses!
Five answers:
Li'l Lily
2012-05-02 19:58:02 UTC
Hi,

Good question and good planning before you get them together. I have a couple of things you can do that will make the new 'pack' happy quickly.



(1) Introduce the two dogs away from home out on neutral ground. Use a park or school-ground but not a dog park because you only want your dogs involved not all the others. Here's how you do it. You have the pup on a leash and someone else has old guy on leash. Each of you are just walking around separately with your dogs here there and around. You and the pup walk past a time or two but just keep going and don't let them meet. Then you finally sit somewhere with the pup and relax and play and rest. Now the other person and old guy comes up after awhile and sits down near to you and the new pup The other person sits beside you not in front of you although there is 1.5 leash lengths between you. You don't want to be facing each other. The other persons job is to NOT allow old guy to go past length of his leash and get to the pup You sit so that old guy can not get to you but pup can reach the old guy on his leash if he wants to. Now pack a lunch and plan alot of time. What you want to have happen is the PUP to cross over and go to the old guy. It must be the pup to initiate the introductions. By doing this, he confirms that he is brave and worthy of being a new member of your pack. If done the other way around (new guy gets in pups face first), old guy may just always view pup as his next meal!



(2) Bathe the pup first The pup comes from a litter just off a lactating b*tch and carries her scent inside and out. In dog-dome the scent of a lactating b*tch is very frightening to any and all dogs for a very good reason. B*tches can be deadly and will fight to kill in order to protect her pups - and all dogs on earth KNOW that by virtue of her scent. For this reason, your old guy is just not going to care much for a pup that smells like a deadly risk to him, right? So bathe him first before intros. When he smells like a normal dog, everything goes much smoother.



There are other tips too but these are the main ones. Good Luck and have a wonderful time!
Esmeralda
2012-05-02 19:42:39 UTC
Moving a new dog in is very stressful for rrsiding pets and their owners. It will take time for your dogs to get use to each other. Don't force your new puppy and dog to meet. When you bring your new puppy home act like it's not a big deal just take it to its kennel or bed and let it explore on its own. Keep an eye on it especially when it goes to investigate your current dog. Its normal for the residing dog to growl its their way of saying I was here first you learn your place. If your dog snaps at the puppy say no very loudly and firmly and move the puppy a few feet away. This teaches your dog that if they don't like the puppys company they can move somewhere else. Never hit your dog for snapping not even if they do nip the puppy. Remember your dog has a pack mentality and thinks that nipping is the best way to put your puppy in his place. For them its you-them-puppy in that order and they are not afraid to flaunt their position. So all hitting them teaches is that the puppy is above them which could depress them. I know how exciting it is to have a new puppy but try and act nonchalant about it for the first two weeks or so and just teally focus on your older dog and getting it use to the new family member. Good luck
ChiMom
2012-05-02 19:44:53 UTC
Most older dogs do not like puppies because puppies have no manners or social skills. They get excited and jump up and chew on things and are hyper and that is all the stuff your dog was trained not to do. Has your dog been around puppies before? I would find a pup and see how he reacts so when you get your pup he will have an inkling of what it is:) Introduce your dog to your new puppy for the first time a few blocks from your home so he won't be protective of his home and attack the pup for being in his house. Good Luck!
Candra C
2012-05-02 19:45:10 UTC
Honestly, you never know till you try and introduce them. However if your maltese has never had another dog in your house, it might not matter what he's like outside of the house. Think of it this way, your parents walk in with a brand new child and you were never consulted or even told that there would be a new one. That's how animals often see it. That's his house too and he doesn't even get a choice of who his roommates are? Might annoy me. Perhaps ease her into the situation if possible, bring her for 'sleepovers', making the time lots of fun for him too. Put a towel with her scent so under his food bowl so that as he's eating your reinforcing food=good good=puppy. Just a few ideas, also start surfing training websites to ease the tension. Make sure he still has his space, has a room, or even a crate all to himself that she doesn't go in, as spacial issues are the root of many behavior problems.
kellan
2016-09-18 06:07:19 UTC
JUST LET THE DOGS FIGURE OUT THIS PROBLEM ON THEIR OWN AND IF YOU WANT MORE INFO ON WHAT IS HAPPENING JUST READ THE ARTICLE BELOW. Adding an additional puppy to the loved ones can disenchanted the percent order, and would reason dominance problems among the pets. A puppy coming near early life would possibly consider the ought to experiment his location within the percent order. Some growling and skirmishes may also be anticipated among puppies whilst they style this out. There isn't quite any concern so long as one puppy does go into reverse or roll over, and the opposite does give up pushing it at that factor. It will have to be totally cold, simply plenty of dog four letter phrases and a few pushing round whilst the brand new or maturing puppy checks his role within the percent. It can sound fairly horrifying. Sometimes the common puppy will become subordinate, typically now not. That's now not a foul factor so long as each and every puppy accepts his location within the percent, some thing it's. If, confidently, you're best puppy of the percent, you then do have a few manage over how they deal with each and every different too, no less than whilst they're for your presence. If the common puppy desires to be dominant and is concerned approximately his location within the percent, preserve to provide the common puppy his complete proportion of awareness up to you'll. Or no less than a little bit extra then the brand new puppy. The much less dominant puppy can get a little bit much less if quintessential, it does not need to be same, they do not always count on it to be. This will guarantee the dominant puppy that his location is relaxed, and he's much less prone to undertaking the opposite puppy. Things like feeding the dominant puppy first, petting him first, and so on., indicates that you simply appreciate his role for your percent, and encourages others to take action too. Please word: Realize that this is not continuously quintessential, and you are going to typically be competent to preserve to provide your common puppy all of the awareness he is come to count on with out issues even supposing he's subordinate to the brand new puppy - do not permit it dissuade you from making an attempt a moment puppy. The new puppy typically DOES appear to realize that his subordinate is your favourite, and your beta (moment in percent role), and will most often receive it - in terms of you. It isn't always a real ladder of percent positions, one continuously above the opposite in all respects. This is the case in my possess residence. My common puppy, Leilah, a three 12 months historic feminine, continuously backs off in appreciate to my new puppy, Copper, a nine 12 months historic male, so far as meals, water, going by way of doorways, and so on..., in any members of the family simply among them. But Copper does now not compete together with her for role in terms of me. Leilah is in a beta role to each Copper and me. He is the dominant among THEM, he's relaxed in that considering the fact that she's under no circumstances challenged it. If she bounces on him an excessive amount of in play, I permit him inform her off, as is his proper. That they're reverse sexes does support. I simply do not desire folks to suppose there will probably be a concern routinely after getting a moment puppy, the expertise this is for POSSIBLE issues, and issues already happening. Spaying and Neutering would support additionally. They may not be casting off sexual frustrations and tensions on each and every different if they do not have the frustrations and tensions to start with. If different species are worried or there is a significant measurement disparity, issues may also be induced by way of prey force. While coaching is typically potent, whole separation normally whilst the animals aren't strictly supervised is the most secure factor to do, this isn't whatever that would clear up itself in time like a percent order spat.


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