Hanny to arrive this Friday - Intergration???? - Page 1

Hanny Hartis Bohemia will be arriving this Friday. She was bred about 30 days ago.

Our home includes 2 adult humans, 2 adult female spay non-shpeherds, 1 adult female shepherd 18 months intact and 1 young male shepherd 11 months intact. None are very dominate.

Does anyon have any tips that will help us avoid any negative situations and peaceful homecoming?

Thank you!

Congrats!!!. I am so glad that you purchased her. Best of Luck and keep us informed.

Mike

Thanks Mike, will do.

Very nice.  Congratulations!

Here's a link on integrating a new dog.  Take what you can use and disregard the rest.  However, I think picking up all the toys and food bowls and having them out of the way is a good thing to do.

A friend of mine sold a bred bitch about this age to a new home in a different state.  The new owner spent the first week taking the dog everywhere with her in the truck and they bonded really well.  Of course the resident dogs got plenty of attention too.  Everything went very, very smoothly from the get go.

Have fun!

http://www.boxer-rescue-la.com/homepage/images/misc/newdog.residentdog.pdf

Nice to see a dog-related post. You don't mention how old Hanny is. If a puppy, I would approach it differently. A lot depends on how each of the dogs react to puppies. If they tend to ignore the puppy, as mine have, it's easier to integrate them into the group. If an adult, intact bitch, it is going to be harder. I would introduce her to the adult bitch(es) on "neutral territory" first. I would also not allow them to interact unsupervised for even 2 seconds, until THEY worked out their dominance issue. But, remember that bitches are every bit as nasty and unforgiving as human females and will fight to the death. You may just have to keep them separated. Hopefully, your assessment that none of your current dogs is dominant is accurate.

Shhheeeesh your house sound like mine lol....what works for me but maybe not everyone, is I first move all my dogs away before I bring the pup in, then I crate the pup and introduce the other dogs slowly to it that way, so they can sniff and all that good stuff through the crate....after a few days I  take the pup to a portioned seperate fenced area I have set up on my property (its like a nuetral area), then I  let the pup meet one on one and eventually overtime I bring in the others...seems to work so far "knock on wood"...but I never would leave the pup alone with them, not for along while, at least until she grows up. I havent had any problems doing it this way... But I do know alot of people wont even let a pup around grown dogs....but I figure got to have harmony in the household or it would be a zoo...hmmm come to think of it...it already sorta is :)

Kimberly

Mystere, KAH1963....

VA-2 Hanny Hartis Bohemia IOP-3 SVV-3 is 6 years old and is 30 days pregnant......

If you read the OP, this is a bred bitch, not a puppy.  Looks like she's 6yo.

Oops, sorry, we posted that at the same time.

Oops, missed that part. :-)