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I was just wondering if anybody had any advice about mixing an adult, set in her ways lab with a busy 8 week old puppy.
Our 4 year old was a rescue from a local pound. She has few issues but nothing too major. She is not really other dog aggressive but IS other dog wary. We got her at 4 months old and she obviously wasn't very well socialized. She has been around other family dogs and does pretty well other than she is very possessive of our family (me in particular).
We had a border collie that was with her for the first 3 years of her life, and she did good with him. He was a very, very submissive type though.
He died about 1 1/2 years ago and we were very excited to get another puppy. We just added an 8 week old lab mix this week and so far our older lab is doing great with him!! A friend of ours was over last night who has experience with dog handling and was discouraging to me. I was telling her how wonderful Kayla was doing with the puppy and she said, "well that's because the pup isn't a threat!"
My thoughts when getting the puppy was that if she was around him as a baby and could set the "dog" standards for him. There wouldn't be problems between the two. Am I correct in thinking that.
Any advice would be appreciated.
The new puppy mix is from purebred corgi (mom) and purebred lab (dad). I know it's a weird mix, but the little guy can't help his roots! lol
Our 4 year old was a rescue from a local pound. She has few issues but nothing too major. She is not really other dog aggressive but IS other dog wary. We got her at 4 months old and she obviously wasn't very well socialized. She has been around other family dogs and does pretty well other than she is very possessive of our family (me in particular).
We had a border collie that was with her for the first 3 years of her life, and she did good with him. He was a very, very submissive type though.
He died about 1 1/2 years ago and we were very excited to get another puppy. We just added an 8 week old lab mix this week and so far our older lab is doing great with him!! A friend of ours was over last night who has experience with dog handling and was discouraging to me. I was telling her how wonderful Kayla was doing with the puppy and she said, "well that's because the pup isn't a threat!"
My thoughts when getting the puppy was that if she was around him as a baby and could set the "dog" standards for him. There wouldn't be problems between the two. Am I correct in thinking that.
Any advice would be appreciated.
The new puppy mix is from purebred corgi (mom) and purebred lab (dad). I know it's a weird mix, but the little guy can't help his roots! lol