This weekend we are introducing our pack to a new dog and possibly bringing the new dog home, dependeing on how it goes. My dogs are a 5 year female old blue heeler mix, a 1 year old female dachshund, and I'm fosterig a 1-2 year old mutt, possibly basenji/shiba inu mix male. The new dog is a 2 year old male Pembroke Welsh Corgi. I have read the articles on here and other sites about intro and breaking up fights. If there is a fight, the preferred method of breaking it up is to grab the hind legs and separate them. My foster dog was hit by a car prior to coming to my house and he had to have his back left leg amputated. It was at the knee, so he still has a stub. If he is involved in a fight would it be ok to pull him apart with the remaining leg and tail? I'm not sure we could get a good grip on the stub. Can you injure the tail trying to break them up that way? Thanks!
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No advice on breaking up fights (I'd go into this with the mindset that there won't be any fights. You often get what you expect.)
The advice I do have is this: Introduce the new dog to your pack in a "neutral" place--meaning not in your home or in your yard, or anywhere that your current dogs associate as "theirs." Make the introduction down the road, in a park, or anywhere else. Then introduce them the way you might to any strange dog. Don't force it, let them get to know each other on their own terms--and you be calm about the whole thing.
Everyone is on a leash, of course, with you able to anticipate and head off any issues. That's what leashes are for--so you have control and don't have to pull tails or legs. Bring a pocket full of treats and have a little party after they all make nice.
Only after everyone is comfortable with each other, THEN you can lead them all together back to your home.
We're meeting at a dog park that none of the dogs have ever been to before. The plan is to walk my pack and the new dog separately for a good half hour or 45 mins and get them 'in the zone' and tired out. Then we are going to walk them together for a bit. If all goes well we will go to the fenced area. There are two fenced 'off leash' sections at this park, hopefully one won't have any/many other dogs. They will all be on leash, but we'll let them sniff and get to know one another. I don't anticipate any fights but want to be ready for anything. Thanks!
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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We're meeting at a dog park that none of the dogs have ever been to before. The plan is to walk my pack and the new dog separately for a good half hour or 45 mins and get them 'in the zone' and tired out. Then we are going to walk them together for a bit. If all goes well we will go to the fenced area. There are two fenced 'off leash' sections at this park, hopefully one won't have any/many other dogs. They will all be on leash, but we'll let them sniff and get to know one another. I don't anticipate any fights but want to be ready for anything. Thanks!
A dog park would be number one (and two and three) on my list of places not to make a dog-dog intro for possible housemate-dogs.
Nothing about a dog park makes it the right place, and many things make it wrong.
"Hopefully we won't have any/many other dogs" is not nearly the control you want and need to have for the meeting. And you want no (zero) stranger-dogs (or even stranger-humans) there.
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Quote: Tracy Collins
No advice on breaking up fights (I'd go into this with the mindset that there won't be any fights. You often get what you expect.) .... Everyone is on a leash, of course, with you able to anticipate and head off any issues. That's what leashes are for--so you have control and don't have to pull tails or
legs. ..
Ditto. No fights. Not part of your plans and preparations at all.
Kara, there should never be a fight within your pack of dogs. If there is, you are doing something wrong, and i am not trying to sound harsh. If you are clearly the leader of your pack there is no reason why fights should break out.
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Kara, there should never be a fight within your pack of dogs. If there is, you are doing something wrong, and i am not trying to sound harsh. If you are clearly the leader of your pack there is no reason why fights should break out.
100% right!
PS
But the thread is from February and the O.P. never reappeared.
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