Current 3 year old dog unable to accept 7 month old Golden Retriever
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I have a male Labrador cross that is around 3 years old. Recently we adopted a 7 months old male Golden Retriever with hope that he will be a good company to our current dog.
However, after exchanging some bark and sniff, my current Labrador mix turn aggressive and kept growling at the Golden Retriever. In some cases attack him as well.
I read that it's just dog nature to show who is the boss. But how long will this go? So far there has been no harm done. But worry that my current dog will cause worse injury in time to come.
Anyone experienced such dog behaviour and manage to resolve it? We really would like to keep the GR, but if it doesn't work out, might need to let the poor pup go.
Re: [robarto] Current 3 year old dog unable to accept 7 month old Golden Retriever
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it is normal for the first few days...after a few days it should be alright...try playing with them together...get a ball or so...distract the lab's attention to the ball...he might turn away the first few times...be patient coz sometimes it will take more than a day's effort...am sure they will go along quite well for labs and gr are normally socialable...but then even after half a month still he reacts aggressively, then you might have to consider giving up the poor pup if you do not have other alternatives...you can put them at different places isolated to each other though...but that is a tough job...
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Yeah. Doing that for now. Separating them (1 front and the other 1 back)
Will give it sometime. Hopefully in time to come, I will be able to see both playing together. That will be a sight I am longing for.
Playing toy with both of them might not be good. Tried that once, and the lab tend to be dominant of all the things even toy.http://atonne.blogspot.com
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yup...give it some time...i was facing the same prob also when i got my second dog...but mine was different...my first dog ignored all of us and isolated himself till my wife cried...it took almost a week for him to get along with the new pup...
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I think i spoke to your friend Enoch about your case. You can get some tips from him. Have shared some with him. Sorry ah.. a bit lazy to type long long..
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Hi Robarto,
Hv checked out your blog. Glad that things are slowly improving. Guess the Cesar Millan episodes helped you in establishing some ground rules for your furkids.
Hang in there!!! Max is intelligent. He will soon know you are the pack leader; not him
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hmmm...actually what we did was that we tried hard to show our first dog, miko, that we still love him and so by the things that we usually do...play with him, allow him to sleep on our bed and things like that...then thank god slowly he accepted her...and they get along just fine along the way.
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yea, Sprite had a big problem when our new lil GR,Sophie came in (Sprite's favourite companion Sugar the Spitz had just passed away- so we were afraid that she'd get lonely).
She didn't Sophie- always treid to bite her,despite beign a very very social dog.
After a while they warmed up and now are the best of friends!
I think it's amatter of puuting them together & monitoring la. ~ A dog is the only one who will love you more than you love yourself~