What sort of pack animals are BTs?
In your experience, do you find they are better with another BT, as the only pup in the house, or with other breeds?
Have you had experience introducing a BT puppy into a household with an older BT? If so, what worked and what didn't?
Have you had experience introducing a BT puppy into a household with an older BT? If so, what worked and what didn't?
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Bringing in a young puppy into the home where another adult dog lives isn't as difficult as people think. Puppies do have the maturity to show dominance or aggression and a good tempered adult will have no reason to show aggression to a young puppy. It just isn't their nature to be mean and an adult dog will recognize the puppy as a "puppy."
However, you still need to ensure the puppy isn't a pest and wants to constantly nip and jump all over your other dog. Bull Terrier puppies are often extremely energetic and hyper around other dogs which can become annoying. Most adult dogs will put the puppy in its place if they get out of hand which is a natural part of learning what is and what is not tolerated.
Just make sure the adult dog receives equal the attention and no jealousy is noted which can cause problems. Most often than not, a puppy raised with an adult dog will soon grow to become best friends.
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After looking at so many pictures of BTs and videos, they seem to connect on some rare level and really like each other and sleep in the craziest positions. I'm sure others have seen the funny video of the three adult BTs all sleeping in a chair with the last one crawling on top. When I was a kid, we would have thrown a sibling off of the sofa and not played as nicely as BTs, hahaha!
This subject intrigues me very much, so I read too much probably. The latest thing I've been reading is how much dogs like nice people, whether it's the alpha or not. It doesn't diminish respect for the alpha, it's just that they have emotions like us.
We keep Rodney's crate door open all day, and he really likes going in there for a little while and then will come back out for a while. The only times we close the crate is bedtime and when people are away. We don't have a problem with him going in there since he likes his personal space. Would it be better to keep a puppy's crate next to an adult's or in separate rooms?
When we first got Rodney and he'd nip and bite (and it was painful since he was over a year-old), I'd read that they learn from not only their litter mates and mother, but also other mature adult dogs, how to behave and what is acceptable behavior. They suggested letting out a loud, exaggerated squeal or yelp since that's what other dogs would do. It did work. He would immediately stop and look so confused. Unfortunately, he would get really wound up and the uncontrollable biting would start when we'd be on the front porch so that my neighbors
walking by would witness me making loud sounds and my dog looking so
confused by his crazy human companion. I totally agree that an adult dog will help put a puppy in its place appropriately.