Hello All

I wonder if I could ask some advice, me and my girlfriend are about get a new puppy ( an 9 week old Westie).
The new puppy will mainly be living with my girlfriend who has no other pets, but at weekends the pup and her will be spending their time at my place. I have a 13 year old Mongrel, he is very friendly and very laid back with most things.
I was just wondering if there was a certain way, which is best to introduce the two of them ? which might make them both feel relaxed meeting each other and enable them to spend time with each other without any problems. I dont want my older dog (sweep) to feel left out with a new pup in his house. If anyone has any advice of what I could do to help them get on, I would be very grateful.
Thanx

Simon

Introduce them at a park or at your girlfriends home since the older one doesn't live there, and the puppy is new (may be safer since all shots are not up to date). If the pup is bugging the older dog to much take the pup away to give the older dog some peace. You just have to no when your older dog had enough of the pup, he may give a growl to tell the pup that is enough and if that doesn't work then you have to enforce it and occupy the puppy with something like a filled kong to distract the little one.

Good luck and congrats on your puppy :)

Hiya Simon, I had the same predicament a few weeks ago, we got a puppy and had to introduce him to our older retriever, who's 6. What we did was put Diesel, our Dane puppy, into the garden, and sort of let Baillie find him. After about 10 minutes, of letting them smell each other, we brought them in and I fed Baillie first, then the puppy, and gave Baillie a treat at the same time. We're now 4wks further down the line and they seem to be getting on really well, they play away together, but Baillie does let the puppy know when he's had enough of him, and Diesel will back off. The sounds of the growls are quite different, you'll know when your older dog means business :D and so will your puppy
Good luck and let us know how you all get along.
Sharon
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Thanx for the good advice, I think they will get on ok. My older dog is very good natured and wouldn't hurt a fly. But I will be careful that the pup doesn't annoy our older dog to much

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