Hi Everyone!
We have had our dog for two years and he is very socialised and so quite playful and in no way aggressive with dogs he meets, and really enjoys the company of other dogs. We are now fostering another dog who is smaller and have until friday to see whether he is a good fit. Although a very sweet loving dog he is only used to humans and only seems to want human attention. He seems a bit put off by our dog wanting to play and ignores him. He also, being so used to human only attention tries to get in the way when we pet our dog and our dog has now started trying to do the same, which is not in his nature, he has never minded us cuddling other dogs. He also tried to stop the new one coming up the stairs and growled at him and I believe he wouldnt be acting jealous if the new one would play with him too, so he's quite put out that the other one runs away only from him and towards only us, and i think is generally feeling left out no matter how many cuddles we give! Im a little anxious as we only have a couple of days to decide, which may not be long enough to get them to bond and although we already like the new dog very very much our dog is the priority until we decide to def take the new one. Any Advice on getting them to play/bond/sit together? I think the main problem is that the new doggy keeps looking to us for all attention and contact and i want to let him know that he can get that from my dog too. I think the room where my dog usually sleeps i should maybe keep the other dog out of so he still has his own territory and the new one can sleep with my mum, as he is hopefully going to be her main dog anyway. They are both two, and our dog is a cavalier and the new one is a tibetan spaniel shih tzu cross. Any advice would be much appreciated as I cant stand to think of the new dog not feeling accepted, or my dog feeling pushed out!! Thanks!
We have had our dog for two years and he is very socialised and so quite playful and in no way aggressive with dogs he meets, and really enjoys the company of other dogs. We are now fostering another dog who is smaller and have until friday to see whether he is a good fit. Although a very sweet loving dog he is only used to humans and only seems to want human attention. He seems a bit put off by our dog wanting to play and ignores him. He also, being so used to human only attention tries to get in the way when we pet our dog and our dog has now started trying to do the same, which is not in his nature, he has never minded us cuddling other dogs. He also tried to stop the new one coming up the stairs and growled at him and I believe he wouldnt be acting jealous if the new one would play with him too, so he's quite put out that the other one runs away only from him and towards only us, and i think is generally feeling left out no matter how many cuddles we give! Im a little anxious as we only have a couple of days to decide, which may not be long enough to get them to bond and although we already like the new dog very very much our dog is the priority until we decide to def take the new one. Any Advice on getting them to play/bond/sit together? I think the main problem is that the new doggy keeps looking to us for all attention and contact and i want to let him know that he can get that from my dog too. I think the room where my dog usually sleeps i should maybe keep the other dog out of so he still has his own territory and the new one can sleep with my mum, as he is hopefully going to be her main dog anyway. They are both two, and our dog is a cavalier and the new one is a tibetan spaniel shih tzu cross. Any advice would be much appreciated as I cant stand to think of the new dog not feeling accepted, or my dog feeling pushed out!! Thanks!
