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10-11-2009, 09:58 PM | #1 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Eugene Oregon
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| Mr. Darcy gets a little brother. Advice please! A new Yorkie boy is joining our little family within a few weeks. He will be nearly four months old. Mr. Darcy and I met the little fellow at his home today. He is livelyBlessings to the breeder, desiring to socalize her litter and get to know their personalities prior to offering the puppies. Her knowledge and Mr. Darcy's reactions helped me determine which to choose. I left several puppy blankets there so as to bring scent from old home to new. Mr. Darcy will go along for visits before pup comes home. I would appreciate advice from those of you who introduced #2 after #1 had established his title as owner of the castle. Mr. Darcy is going on 14 months and I've had him almost one year. He's sweet, loving and used to being my main focus. I expect some jealousy and competition will happen, and that supervised play is necessary at first. My office is at home and I'll plan on spending a number of days helping the boys adjust when baby arrives. Advice and suggestions from my Y.T. friends to ease the transition from 1 to 2 would be very much appreciated.
__________________ Mr. Darcy and Jackson my two little partners in grime...... forever missing sweet McKennitt & Jack, dancing in the stars |
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10-11-2009, 10:35 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: West Virginia
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| Congratz on your new addition!
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10-11-2009, 11:39 PM | #3 |
Banning Thread Dictator Donating Member | Congratulations! Your breeder sounds terrific. I love the ones who place a premium on socialization. I just finished going through a similar experience, introducing a female puppy to a 5-year-old male who has ruled the roost and had alpha issues with other dogs in the house. I'm no expert, but I can tell you a few of the things that seemed to work for us. My first suggestion would have been to have the initial meeting on neutral ground, but I think meeting at the breeder's house will work just as well. What I found was the well-socialized puppy was too pushy for Eddie. She had never had a bad experience with another dog, so she got right in his face and wanted to play, play, play. Eddie didn't like that and he attacked her a couple times at first, fortunately causing no damage. I decided to intervene when I thought she was getting too pushy. I showed Eddie that he didn't have to admonish her for her pushiness. I would protect him. That really seemed to work well, and I continue doing that to this day. She's almost 6 months. Now he loves playing with her. I think you have to let them have a little rein to work things out themselves. The puppy has to learn the signals from the other dog that say "leave me alone right now." While Eddie's attacks were unfortunate, she got over them quickly and learned to be more cautious with Eddie and other dogs. She's now an excellent judge of character. Another thing I did was set up an X-pen for her in the house so she could have a safe place to go to and to give Eddie some peace. It's worked out well and helped with potty training too. Good luck. Can't wait to see pictures!
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10-13-2009, 01:51 PM | #4 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Eugene Oregon
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| thank you! Mr Darcy and I will be visiting the new baby several times prior to his arrival. I am puppy proofing as well and re-collecting those training items rendered useless as Mr. Darcy matured. Any and all suggestions are much appreciated!
__________________ Mr. Darcy and Jackson my two little partners in grime...... forever missing sweet McKennitt & Jack, dancing in the stars |
10-13-2009, 05:45 PM | #5 |
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| Good luck bringing home your new baby. I want to get a little sister for my baby but everyone seems to say that my baby is too possessive of me and that would be a problem. Is your baby possessive of you? Has anyone had any any of these issues before? Maybe you could get a baby gate and give the puppy one room of the house when you're not home to supervise. That's something I was thinking of doing.
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