You're obviously going to get all sorts of different experiences - so you'll be left to figure it out for yourself. Unfortunately, that's just the way it is.
We got Meggie at only 7 weeks. I'll be the first to admit that should be too young, but she's coming up on a year old (in 6 days) and everything seems to have worked out very well. Anyway, Bailey (Meggie's older sister) was 9 1/2 months old at the time. We took Bailey with us when we went to pick up Meggie. It was an hour drive home, and for all of that time, Bailey did her best to pretend Meggie didn't exist. My wife had Meggie in her lap and once in a while Bailey would look in her direction. As soon as she saw Meggie was still there, she would whip her head back around so fast I'm surprised she didn't injure herself. When we got home, Bailey tried to completely avoid Meggie and even growled at her once or twice when Meggie just wouldn't back off. At that point, we were wondering if we had made a serious mistake.
We didn't do anything except force them to be in the same general area, and within two or three days they were playing together. Now, they are the best of friends and if one of them needs to be away for a day, as recently happened when we took Bailey in for dental cleaning, the one left behind is simply lost until they are reunited. Same thing happened the other way around when Meggie was sick a few months ago and had to spend the day at the vet for tests.
I wouldn't make any promises, but my bet is they'll work things out on their own. |