Just to give you another perspective, each time we have added a dog to the household it has taken a good month or more for the others to accept the new addition. I had an older dachshund that I was thinking had little time left, so we bought a Yorkie. Instead of having some companionship she wanted nothing to do with the Yorkie. But after about a month, she started to tolerate her coming near her. Another month and they were buddies. Same thing happened each time we added a puppy. We are convinced getting the other dogs has given our 16 year old dachshund added years she would not have had otherwise. But she was a slow one to warm up to any of them! |