for those that have more than 1 dog

oooooooh what breed have you got?     

oscar (our new baby) is almost 5mths old and he dominates our older boy clyde, who is almost 6!

when you say munter gave diago a hiding, was it serious or just in play? i'm sure once they work out who is boss, they will be fine. we've had oscar for just over a month and he is now best mates with clyde.

at first i was a little apprehensive about oscar's nature because he was trying to boss clyde around and also snapped at the kids a couple of times.....but all it took was for DH to 'down' him after a nip at jack and he's been really tolerant ever since.

i'm sure if diago didn't like being bossed around, he'd let munter know who was boss?

good luck with your new baby

We've got 2 dogs and once they worked out who was boss they were fine. Good mates now and play heaps together, it's nice they have each other for company if we're away for a few hours from the house. They share a bed.

We have two dogs, Leela was about 7 months old when we got Santo, she was a rehome so was about 2.5yrs already. Leela was full grown but still very puppyish.
If they are fighting then I would keep them seperate at home (if poss) and take them out to first socialise them. When we got Santo we did the meet and greet on neutral territory, that went well so then we brought Santo home for a play date (more to see if she would try to eat the cats). Santo is now in charge after some small fights between them and Leela is now happy with that and will just follow.

I think just give it a couple of weeks, they will normally just settle themselves down and all you need to do is break up anything that you think is bad. Mine have only ever had one real fight over a bone about a week after we got Santo and I just went and took it off them, cos I'm in charge so it's my bone. If they do keep fighting then perhaps find a dog trainer in your area and take the new pup to puppy school so he can learn some manners, its normally not that expensive to do and is well worth it.

Mine now sleep in the same kennel at night, they go in the same crate in the car and although they have a bed each in the house they are quite often curled up together and when outside where one goes the other normally follows. I think its worth perserving with cos then they have a mate when your not their to be company, they are pack animals and love to be with people or other dogs.

well DH took them out together and things went good and now they are sharing a kennel.

Diago has established that he is 'big' therefore the boss and im actually feeling really sorry for this poor tiny little pintsize puppy especially because diago is....*ahem*...trying to um....ya know....

DO dogs not realise about gender!? they are both males!

our two are mum and pup i bred yet they still fight from time to time...the pup (now aged 6!) hold her mother down by scruff of neck!

I used to make sure i still took the mum out a lot on her own...and taught them to play differently...eg one with frisbee and one with ball more.

two males will be hard tho as the fighting insticnt will be there ....bad enough when one of mine comes on heat...they damn near kill one another! and they are nice friendly collies....

my one big recommendation is to go to dog training and make sure they are at least base level obedience trained....it also helps you guys ensure you are the bosses of them and not vice versa....and bailey could take part in that so they see him as a boss too!

I have 3 dogs.
When I first got together with the other half, he already had one, and my dad dumped my mums dogs on me after she left him. Fran (Matts dog) wasnt quite sure what the bloody hell was going on as it had just been her for quite a while, but my 2 doggies were fine with her. Fran is a Bichon Frise, and my old boy is too, but I also had a pomerainian - not just a standard one, a teacup one. So fran thought Tammy was a puppy even tho she was 15. We had problems with dominance, which took a good couple of months to go, but after that they'd sleep in the same bed together.

Now in chch, I have Max and Fran, Tammy lives with my sister in auckland cuz she's 16 now and too old to travel, but we have mums new dog (mum lives with me) who is a young girl who is a breeder. Theres a LOT of problems which are gradually getting sorted out, heaps of humping and scraps, but usually they're just fine.
My advice to you is to just give it a go. Give your original doggy lots of loves and get him/her to sit with you and cuddle while you're patting the pup, then your original dog will see that it's not being left out. Any dog can get used to new ones on the scene, it just takes a little while to sort out.
I have had 6 dogs all at once in the past of varying ages, all arriving at different stages, but they've all got on great! I used to foster abused dogs as well, and my dogs were the greatest in the whole world!!! Good luck!

jack_&_charli wrote: lol   amber....dogs aren't fussy about silly things like gender oscar was trying to *bump uglies* with clyde a couple of days after we brought him home....he was only 3.5mths old!!     now they both try it on with each other so it's a mutal agreement

LMFAO!!! especially the *bump uglies*!!! never heard that before!!

Well last night went well! Diago had a new colar on and managed to slip it off his head and was off all night but when i realised i got up to look (at 2am) and Diago was cuddled up with Munter (im trying to get DH to change it to Hunter! ) in the kennel!.

Today Diago has snapped a few times and gets very overprotective of the boys but otherwise its going well!! apart from the fact that Diago is on another blanket strike and constantly throws the blankets out the door so they are both sleeping in a bare kennel!

oh and i got it wrong - Munter isnt a dogo like i thought - he is a Kelpi

lol Kelly! tell me bout it!!!! he wanted to name Diago munter! and i was like hell no!!!!! not thinking we would get another dog but here we are and Munter it is but seen as i am the one taking him to the vets and registering him - i am contemplating putting him as Hunter ....but my concience is telling me off