How did the first dog change whenever you got your next dog?
Did s/he lose his improper habits or did the 2nd dog adopt a number of individuals improper habits?
Was your pet more tired from getting a playmate?
Whenever you left your dogs alone, were they calmer than simply the first dog have been?
Generally, the other changes have you notice whenever you introduced another dog to your home?
Sorry for the questions and thanks ahead of time.
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the change i noticed is that it died. it got hit by a car. that’s a big change.
The two dogs I’ll be sharing my experience with are Pig and Zelda. Pig was the first dog in my home, and she grew to be a fat lazy two year old beagle. Then I brought home Zelda, and the puppy at first annoyed Pig, however she grew to love her within a week. Zelda inspired Pig to exersize and play in a way that I had never seen, and she lost tons of weight. It was all very good for Pig, they were best friends.
The whole “puppy stage” with zelda, she was rotten. I mean ROTTEN. her separation anxiety was ridiculous, she’d destroy everything within reach the second you left the house, didn’t matter whether you were just in the yard or not. she could not be trusted alone for more than two minutes. This carried on for months, and we almost called it a lost cause.
Pig had health problems that caused us to have to put her down one year after we brought home Zelda. No sooner was pig gone, and zelda an only dog, did all her naughty behaviors stop. it was like magic. something about pig leaving turned zelda’s behavior right around.
So first I had my dog petey was about 9 yrs old when I got my other dog lady and at first he hated her but then they became friends and he taught her all of his bad habits and then his stopped all together but his epilepsy became worse so they could not be together any more and he just recently died and we got a new puppy since we brought pepper into our home lady has been happier and so much calmer and a better well behaved dog it’s like she knows that she is peppers role model and acts accordingly she still has some bad habits but for the most part she has become a lot more behaved.
It varied depending on the individual temperament of the dog.
One male Dobermann would rather that I hadn’t changed the pack dynamics by adding a b*tch to the household, ignored its existence, walked out of the room when it entered, & there was no latitude extended to normal puppy bad canine manners – leaping/nipping = pup sent away with a flea in its ear with a growl.
It time it tolerated its presence, & would remain in the room, but no more than that.
In contrast when I purchased a dog puppy, the resident b*tch took to it like a duck to water, curling up next to the pup in its bed, washing & allowing some rambunctious behavior.
However after a few week the latitude stopped, & bad manners was corrected by body language [not allowing it to take a toy], a growl to signal to the pup to stop a behavior NOW or a snap to drive to the point home that the b*tch ranks higher in the canine hierarchy.
The second, third or in some instances fourth dog was purchased for me & it was optional as to whether or not the resident dogs liked or tolerated it. For the first few months I crate/put the pup in another room when I am not there to supervise it, & separate the younger dog again at adolescence when there may be another tussle for a higher canine pack position.
Generally the behavior didn’t change because I allowed the dogs to sort of the canine pack rankings unless the older dog over corrected the pup, the new dog was not backing down to a snap correction, or the new dog was making a senior dog’s life miserable with stroppy or rambunctious behavior.
An adult dog will try it on with bad behavior if it think if may get away with it, but if your dog looks up to you as a leader & generally toes the line, the pup will not see bad behavior being rewarded with the dog getting what it wants on demand.
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