Old dog, young puppy

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Last night I started to get angry, then realized how much I do not know about dog-dog interactions...

The 14 year old Lhasa's shuffled into the puppy pen and peed on his freshly washed bed.

My friend said she's jealous of the puppy and marked his bedding very deliberately.

She does grumble at him alot, has occasionally snapped at him but not enough to deter him from bouncing right back, trying to get her to play with him.

I keep them separated alot of the time with baby gates, maybe not enough...

Poor old girl, she's the elder with two young punk shelties. Justus respects her and leaves her alone, but is quick to jump up and in between if there is something brewing between those two.

I love Justus. Peace keeper, like his predecessor, Keep'n The Peace "Bobby"
 
old dog and puppy- that's why I got Dixie. Old girl Callie did not appreciate puppy Cranberry so Dixie had to come run interference. it worked out very well for all three of them:yes:
 
Oh, yes...

SheepOfBlue said:
:lol: puppy slap down
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Funny, but possibly necessary for your Oldster to do.


We have a 13 year old Sheltie and are planning to bring a new dog into the family. We've decided to find an adolescent or an adult so as not to foist puppy chaos upon her :biggrin2:

The good news is In time puppy will grow up.
 
Although we didn't have the peeing issues, and Honey was used to puppies since my parents got 2 more dogs after her, she is a grumpy old lady who isn't thrilled of puppies. We had to closely supervise them until he was 1. Ruutu would jump all over her trying to play, but Honey wanted nothing of it. To this day, the only game they'll play together is tug, and only if my husband and I are in the game with them. They battle over the tennis ball... even though we have like 3. We basically end up playing with both dogs at the same time, but not them playing together. And although they tell you not to buy a puppy for your dog, we're getting our third part to play with Ruutu bc he loves to play with my parent's sheltie since Honey won't play with him and part because my husband wants to get into Agility.


I highly recommend monitoring the two together and make sure you're giving her lots of one on one time with mommy. The pee thing definitely sounds like she's jealous of him and the amount of time he gets with you.
 
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