I'm looking for some advice on how to successfully introduce my friends boxer pup (bitch) to my staffy (bitch aged 2 1/2).  they met for the first time today in my garden, and my dog ignored the pup but allowed her to sniff her bum and girl bits. My dog made no attempt to sniff the pup.  the pup then tried to lick my dog and was attempting to groom her when my dog snapped at her and walked away.  This was the same type of reaction she gives horny boys who are trying to hump her and although I warned my friend this would probably happen she had never seen my dog warn another dog so got a bit of a fright.

My dog is a bit of a pampered princess and isn't used to havng to share her people (i.e. me, my friends and family) with other dogs unless she has been introduced to them initially with their dogs so I think she is jealous and doesn't want to have to share her people - especially not with an irritating baby!!

Any advice on how to help my dog to tolerate the pup and maybe help teach the pup some manners without my friend thinking her wee pup is going to get mauled?  all advice gratefully received. 

In hindsight I should have probably put pup in cage in my garden but my friend has borrowed my cage so this wasn't posssible and my dog is a lot calmer at my house than my friends where she is always totally hyper.

Although it is important that pups learn that not all dogs will tolerate everything they try to do to them, it's also important that pups learn that the majority of dog-dog interactions are safe for them.  Different pups can be affected in different ways, so although some pups could have shrugged off your dog's 'snap', other pups will be severely traumatised by it and it could have set back her pup's socialisation a long way. 

If your friend's pup has already met many other adult dogs which have been friendly to her, then the damage will be minimised.  If this was the first or one of the first adult dogs your friend's pup has met, the pup could be traumatised by it. 

Which is all to say - if the pup has not met a lot of other dogs then:  You seem to have known your dog would react like this, and you say you warned your friend, but imo, it is a bit foolish, both of you knowing that, to go ahead with it.  After all, what you expected, happened - congrats! 

If the pup was a bouncy, confident pup, has been outside seeing the world for a few weeks now, and has already met lots of other adult dogs which are friendly, then disregard that last bit.

If the pup is not bouncy, confident/any of the above, then I'd suggest you stop trying to get the 2 dogs to interact for now and wait until the puppy is a few months older.  Your friend should focus on making sure the adult dogs her pup meets are friendly, or at least aloof. 

You are also attempting this in your own back garden, which is your own dog's territory, which again isn't a good idea.  Why didn't you go for a walk somewhere?  Then your dog would be much busier checking out the surroundings and too busy to bother about the puppy.

thanks for your reply. the reason we did it in my garden is becuase the pup hasn't had her injections yet and my friends garden is like a building site at the moment as it getting done up and puppy proofed.  thankfully there seems to have been no visible negative effect on the pup as she continued to be as wild as ever and I have checked since and she is still totally mental and into everything and everybody.  I am aware that not all damage will be visible yet but so far there is nothing apparent as she still wanted to go back for more interaction with my dog but my dog went inside as it was apparent she could not be bothered with entertaining a young pup on this occassion.  Thanks for your advice and I think we will probably wait until the pup can go to a park or neutral territory until they meet again.

When we looked after my aunties dog as soon as both dogs were in our back garden they were barking like crazy, no aggression just both trying to sort out whats what i guess, anyway we had to take them out for a walk as i was scared the neighbours would linch us, anyway as soon as they were let off for some off lead running they ignored each other and things were fine from then on. I do believe neutral meeting ground does work better but had we left them them to it they would have worked things out by themselves.

I would viewq your bitches reaction as perfectly normal towards a pup that she didn't want to bother with.  I doublt any but the most undersocialised pup would take any harm from it as it was being put in it's place when it overstepped the mark.

This is exactly how my older bitches treat pups in our house, adn the mums don't worry one bit over it (they would son be up in arms if soemthing/someone hurt their pups).

I have five adult bitches in my house foru of which have had litters and all these would snap their teeth at an impudent pup.  that is how they6 learn how far they can go with each of teh family members.  Doesn't stop them teasing great great granma asleep in her bed in the kitchen.

You didn't say how the pup reacted, only it's owner :D

hi Brainless, the pup was fine.  It wanted to go back for more and didn't seem at all nervous afterwards.

Then I wouldn't worry as long as your bitch can get away from him when she wants for peace they will be able to work out amicably how to get on. :D