Hi, I had a bit of a dilemma with my aged canine and my new puppy dog. Ernie, 9, is a little shih Tzu x and he’s my absolute heart. Last Time we lost our old canine pip, who ernie had lived with since he was a doggy .
He acclimated to her loss really well and so for the last time he has been idolize on by me and my hubby( we have no children). I ’ve grown up with tykes , always had them and I work with them as a groomer so I feel veritably confident with tykes . We always wanted to get another little friend for Ernie and decided that getting a small girl would be the stylish match with him as that’s what he generally prefers. He’s veritably well socialized but generally prefers girls. We bought Gert home last week, she has now been with us 8 days, and Ernie just does n’t want anything to do with her.
He did not feel too irritated when we first got her home, he gave her a good whiff but also he did not feel too interested. Since also he looks constantly put out, worried and anxious and whenever Gert goes near him and he growls at her. To be fair to her she isn’t each over him like some puppies would be and is generally giving him space. We’ve been giving him plenitude of fuss and making sure he’s not being pushed out, but he looks so miserable that we ’ve done this to him. It’s giving me the worst anxiety and I was beginning to feel like this was a huge mistake. I ’m not sure if the shock of flashing back how hard a puppy dog is in the early weeks is adding to my feelings as Gert is still in the process of restroom training and isn’t sleeping through the night yet. We ’ve suddenly gone from one canine who’s actually similar an easy canine to watch for and I feel like we ’ve thrown a huge spanner into our lives.
Everything I ’ve looked at says to just give him time to acclimatize, praise him when he’s calm around the doggy and let him correct her without intermediating which I ’m doing, but has anyone had commodity analogous with their tykes ? Did they ever get along? I’ve no idea what we will do if he won’t accept her as I ’m not the kind of person who could just rehome a canine, I ’ve noway had to do it ahead and it would kill me, but I ’m really floundering seeing Ernie struggle with this. And provided anyone provided any advice on how to encourage him to interact with her it would surely be veritably welcome. In time 2020 we lost our lovely old canine pip, who Ernie had lived with since he was a doggy . He acclimated to her loss really well and so for the last time he has been idolize on by me and my hubby ( also we’ve no children). numerous people do not give two tykes so important time to adequately and fluently acclimate to one another before making opinion that having 2 tykes might not work. occasionally tykes can take up to many weeks like in our case for an old canine and new canine to really get settle down and happily accept each other’s position in the pair. Anytime one wants a alternate canine, one need to be fully ready to commit to the process and shouldn’t horrify.
My experience will help you decide whether this step is for you and if so, how to make it successful. Often, after an adaptation period, the old canine and new canine will truly enjoy each other. You would be actually relatively surprised at how our two tykes who originally appeared to really dislike each other can come stylish musketeers after a veritably short while. Download my canine training experience in PDF below