I was at the beauty parlor picking up lilly, they have a 3 year male, mini doxi to give away to only a good home. Parents have started to travel and have to board Sam... We met Sam, he is "squirter". He pee pee'd on Lilly and when HooDaddy went to visit the next day, he peed. This baby is 3 years old, but needs good companion We are going to take him, need advise on training Lilly with new brother. He stays in a very warm part of house with another furbaby, but we let Lilly out all day inside the house. Lilly sleeps with us but it is apparant, she needs a playmate. I want to make sure to make the transition smooth and how to handle.
1. Do I crate the new baby?
2. Do I let him in the bed ASAP?
3. What do we need to do for Lilly to take this well?. Her cousins come over from time to time and she LOVES them....But they leave... (And they are very large dogs). Lilly likes larger babys compared to her.
Need some advise to bring new baby into our home.
Thanks!
Paula
I don't have any advice for you as I have ever had more than one doxie...but I did want to say Congratulations!!
I hope my response is what you need.
When you bring a new dog in the household, let there be a partition between the new dog and the resident dog. Allow the new dog only enough room to sleep and eat in and graduate into a larger area as he/she learns to do his/her business outside. Only give the whole run of the house after the boy learns to go outside to do his/her business.
I use a crate alot for housetraining. Once the dog learns everything, he/she will learn that the crate is a place of peace and quiet and might just retreat there on his/her own.
Congratulations! I'm so glad you are taking Sam in and also giving Lily a playmate. When we got Molly, who is a bulldog, Schatzi was only 9months old and Molly was larger. I will admit, though, that Schatzi quickly became the Alpha dog. I'm still not quite sure how that happened! We just made sure we were around both of them at all times for the first little while until we knew they were okay together. Since Molly was already housebroken-actually she was better than Schatzi- we didn't have to worry about that. As for the bed, it was up to Molly and after a night or two she chose to join us. Schatzi never seemed to mind her at all and Molly can take up quite a bit of space!
We have had several on the board who have rescued adult doxies and brought them home to meet their other doxies, so I'm sure you will get some great advice here. I can't wait to hear stories about Lily and Sam. I have a feeling they will have a great time together!
Last October i adopted three adult doxies through Almost Home Dachshund Rescue Society. Merlin and Beau had been rescued together from a shelter in Alabama, and Roscoe had been bounced from home to home through no fault of his own (and no fault of some of the homes either!). Guinness had been alone since his best friend Cooper had been put down in August (liver cancer). He is much smaller, but still thinks of himself as the alpha. Roscoe doesn't share well. He get right in Merlin and Beau's faces and snarls and barks and they so totally ignore him, he just gets more and more upset! Sometimes I have to put him in time out to calm down and get the message that if you want to stay in the group you gotta act nice!
Just be sure you stay on top of the heap, and let Lilly be alpha, unless she is willing to be submissive.
As for peeing, Dr. Beau Leaky is about to go into doggie diapers. He is a submissive urinater, so if he's excited, he'll roll over and pee all over himself, my shoes, the floor, across the room, etc. I try to keep him empty - lots of trips outside into the dog yard - and I take things calmly. Don't do anything that will cause Sam to roll over to pee, and make sure you greet him outside or in a place with tile floor so he can pee if he gets excited without ruining your carpet. Better yet, consider getting rid of carpeting altogether.
The SPCA recommends when adding a dog to a house hold that has an adult resident dog they first meet on neutral territory a park or somewhere close to the house. Also you can go to Leerburg Dog Training.com he is a trainer of big dogs has allot of free information some I like some I do not like but it is the way with all trainers. You read all you can about a subject then just use the parts that you like or want to try.Leerburg has over 10,000 articles allot are free makes for an interesting read some articles are about pups,adults,how to safely break up a dog fight, introducing children to dogs,crate training,house breaking. all kinds of dog information. I also recommend a belly band for boy dogs so he will not mark in your house or get pee every where till he gets over the submissive peeing if he does.
Paperboy
We have brought two adults into a house with two homies.
We met on neutral ground at the breeders. With Oliver coming in we had Emma who was big A alpha even though nearly blind and half the size. Then after Ingrid died we brought in AMy. Colleen said to us leave them to find their own order, just remember that we were the top dog, and. make sure nobody was realy picking on an other and watch.
We have always slept them in their own bed (purpose made to hold three) as they we feel have to have their own place to go to, plus we do not crate.The only seperation we ever did was when we brought Ingird home as she and OLiver tended to go over the top, but it was pathetic to come home and find Oliver lying on the tiles on the other side of th edoor to her. Both climbed into their big bed with the other two on the first night and picked their spot and that is where they still are.
I think its how you are around them, they pick up on every neuance of you behaviour, just love them.
Is Sam neutred as thay may help his wee problem, plus he may have felt insecure where he has been.
Roberta
forgot to say remember it will take him some time to settle so be patient.