Hi,

I will be adding more photos soon to this album, but these are some pictures of Sonya my one year old gsd and my 6 year old gsd Kilo. Her friends in the pics are Hannah a one year old goldendoodle and Nat a pitbull/boxer mix. I wish I had more pics of Kilo growing up but I only had a polaroid camera when she was little.

http://s145.photobucket.com/albums/r214/kimbee79/

Kimberly

Beautiful pictures of your beautiful dogs. From the earlier pics when Sonya was a puppy, they seem to get along great.

They did at one pint It took Kilo about a week to warm up to Sonya (I washed Sonya in Kilo's shampoo and she loved her after that) and start to want to play with her. Once Kilo went back into her heat cycle she became extremely aggressive with the pup. She was also diagnosed with lyme disease this summer. I think I had to seperate the two dogs for good the beginning of this summer. Kilo got to the point that she would try to go after Sonya on site with no warning and she seemed completely fixated on going after her. Even after I grabbed a hold of her, she wasn't able to focus on anything else or to calm down, she would literally start shaking. Since she has been spayed and put on meds to drop the lyme bacteria down Kilo has been a lot happier, but I won't trust the two together even supervised.

I'm not sure if her aggression was hormone related or lyme aggression related or something else.

Kimberly

That must be hard, keeping them separate all the time. I was wondering if they still got along, was hoping they did based on the puppy pictures of them playing. I've only had 2 dogs at a time twice in my life, both were females and they always got along, but I'm not sure why. They liked each other, and in one instance the older female was actually protective of the younger one. Both instances they lived for years together with no problems. Wonder why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Don't know if it's true, but I've read that females have a bit more jealousy issues than males. Maybe it's a personality issue. Every dog is different and maybe sometimes the dogs we choose as their roommates don't sit well with them. It's so hard to know what's going to happen when/if we bring a 2nd one in.

Sweet pictures and nice dogs.
It is hard to seperate your own dogs all the time.I have to seperate my males but yesterday my oldest male got out of his kennel while I was cleaning upstairs and when I came downstair I found both of my males playing in the pool.No fights , no growls.It was nice to see because they were great pals at one time but when I enter the picture, my oldest male thinks he's got to put my one year old in his place.So off and on I think they can be together but I still have to keep an eye on then when they are together.Maybe you'll have times when they can hang out and other times that you have to seperate them instead of the seperation being 24/7.I'm hoping for seperation once in a while and not all the time

It was really hard at first having them seperated, but now I have a schedule setup for them to have their out time. My older dog likes her crate, so even when she has free roam of the house she typically goes back in her crate to lay down. She also comes with me when I go to work on my house I bought. She does a run through of the property to check for any intruders. One time she chased a rat that jumped out of a hole in the yard at me (ahhhh city living is great). I trust the older dog more in protecting me if needed in a weird situation. She had some training when she was younger to fire up on command at someone.

I'm hoping one day the dogs can live in harmony, but with the couple times the pup did get out with her out already I can tell by body posture it will not be happening any time soon. The pup is completely submissive with her too. My older dog does feed off of me a lot and I think this may be the main problem, she doesn't like strangers near me or other animals, so it seems like jealousy.

Once I move from where I am currently living, I do have back up plans for both dogs. My older gsd can stay with my mom if needed (since the pup doesn't listen to her, she has conversations with the animals rather than using commands) or the pup can be given to a close friend that she adores.

All in all I hope they can live together fine or stay with me but just be seperated.

Kimberly

Kimberly
Well I hope they work out for you,I think as long as you have a routine and a schedule that they both can share some quality time with you they'll be fine.It's funny what you say about your females posture with the puppy because that is how I see it with my males, my oldest posture around the one year old , I feel the tension and yet my one year old is submissive to him and does not look for trouble.But it's always when I am in the picture when I am not there and they are near one another (my husband is home)they get along great.So weird.I hope you get to keep your dogs, I couldn't imagine having to get rid of one of my boys.
I wish you luck and good luck with your new home!