from you more experienced owners with more than one dog! i need some advice in regards to another dog coming into our home. Well blade (dobe) is male not castrated and is 9 months today. Now he gets on fine with other dogs. My question is i am going to be looking after his Brother (from same litter) for 1 week. They have met each other before on numerous ocassions (he belongs to my mil) and they get along fine (at mil house or on a walk) now I have never had a dog or bitch in blades home so how is the best way to introduce this? I know it is probably better to meet on neutral territory, but will Blade not think that the fields he walks in around here belong to him rather than Storm?  These probably seem silly questions but i want this to go as smoothly as possible without stressing anyone out.. what do you all recommend? They are both lovely temprament dogs and have never fought with each other at all, they just constantly play(or would if we let them)
Emz

The best way is always to meet and have a walk on nuetral territory.  Can you not walk somewhere else that day then after just walk them home together.
If they both get on fine and know each other anyway there shouldn't be much of a problem.

Bev

As bevb said, let them meet on neutral territory.  Ideally, it should be off leash, which from the sounds of it shouldn't be a problem - this will allow both boys to communicate properly with each other without a leash restricting them in any way.

A word of caution: whilst I'm sure you'll be fine, male dobes are notorious for not getting on with other male dobes, especially in the house - at 9 months I wouldn't think there'd be any problems, but I just thought it was worth mentioning.

Have fun, I expect your house will be a whirlwind of trouble for a week!!

I wouldn't be able to let them off leash together outside the house as Storm (the brother) doesn't have a good recall as he is always lead walked. As he isn't my dog, I wouldn't want to loose him... so I think I will have to keep them on lead and not let them off as I can't let blade off and not Storm as that wouldn't be fair!

Once you've met on neutral territory, and if everything is ok, then I would take them both home. Make sure that there are at least 2 of you. This way you can keep them on leads until you are sure that they are happy together in your home. If you can do this a few times before he comes to stay you will have a better chance of them getting on when he is left with you. My 3 year old dog's 2 litter brothers (Large Munsterlanders) visit regularly and they have a few grumbles to start with before playing together in the back garden. Another brother comes to visit once a year for about an hour and so far they have got on ok.