ic help. my dog doesn't like my puppy
N/- By babebullet8 Date 22.07.13 18:38 GMT
Hi all really hope you can help. I have a deer hound he is 3 years old a totally relaxed chilled out baby. I have borough a new puppy home he is a patterdale cross Lakeland. My deer hound is scared of him. Runs upstairs all time or outside. Soon as puppy comes near my deer hound runs where ever he can to get away. I do put puppy in kitchen for an hour a night so my deer hound can go where he likes. I also praise my deer hound when he enters same room as puppy. He still gets loads of attention and love. It has been only 5 days now but I can't see much change.does anyone have any ideas.is this something that will work out over abit of time? Do we know how much time? Thank you in advance everyone xx

Give it time ! I usually count three days for new puppy to be accepted but I'm sure this can take longer with some dogs. Seems to me that you are doing everything right. Usually the adult dog will give a pushy puppy a few tellings   off and puppy learns a bit of respect. Your Deerhound  seems to be a gentle  sensitive type. He is probably alarmed by this little critter yapping around his domain. He'll get used to him.

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