Hello,
We have had one male Pyrenean Mountain Dog living at the house since he was a puppy (about 1 year 1 month now), and we recently got another male Pyrenean Mountain Dog from a dog shelter (not the last owner, the previous owner was abusive to it) and we introduced them wrongly to each other. We introduced them on the home property, and the original dog became agressive when the new one went near A) his house B) his food. We chained them up at either ends of the house, but when we tried to reintroduce them again away from the doghouse / food they growled alot. Do you have any advice as to where we can go from here ?
Well you have two males, that is your first problem. Its not a problem to have them but it will always be a territory problem. Best thing is to feed them separately either in separate crates with the door locked for each, or in a separate room for each one. Make sure they sleep in crates or in different rooms and let them out to play when you can watch them. The younger male is probably going to growl a lot being that he is young and it was his house. Try reintroducing them on a nuetral ground like a park, keep each on a leash, dont have one on leash and the other off, the one on leash will feel threatened. If you feel it will go okay take each off leash and let them play and get to know eachother. I would say a little growling while playing at home will be okay just each of them telling eachother who is boss, but watch it closely dont let it get past that. I am guessing the younger one may try to mount the other trying to show dominance and I have found that can lead to fights fast...good luck, beautiful breed.
Mr. Hand like Julia mentioned why two males? I guess you were just trying to save a dog. But this is going to be difficult because there is some unsettled business. Who is Alpha? and Who is willing to give in? Sometimes this is only settled by a conflict/fight, don't let it happen it cost cost you medical bills.
I'd keep them separated for at least 2-3 months and keep them on leash while they are out their crate, to stop any knid of fight.
Slowly they may start wanting to get alone, introduce them slowly always on leash or at least always dragging the leash in a control position sit, down or stay or whatever.
I'm thinking about the dog welfare, being a Pyrenese he is a big strong dog and are use to fighting wolves and bears, so they know how to put a hurt on each other, if they get into a fight with each other. If they had grew up together it might be different, so good luck.
Spend time with each and keep them seperate until you feel the time is right. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
Well, we had them on chains for a week now. Today was very hot, so as we live on 17 acres of land, decided to take them out and socialise them down the end, as the original dog Tacoma never goes down that far anyway.
We let them off and Tacoma and Goliath (new dog) just went up to each other and sniffed, thats it. After bout 10 minutes later they just ran off and played with each other. When it came to their houses, there was growling and barking for a split second, and the offending dog ran off. Since then nothing has happend at all. They play and walk around together.
We do keep them chained up for an hour during feeding time, and at night time just in case. But all seems to be going well. If nothing, Tacoma has brought Goliath out of his shell a little bit, as he was an abused dog, we are glad to see Goliath happy, today was the first day we saw him with his tail in the air.
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