First things first!! Congratulations to our Omegease winners!! Dawn from NEPA Pets, Jo-Ann from Sand Spring Chesapeakes, Monika from Tails Around the Ranch, Tenacious Little Terrier and Rochelle Epstein! You all should have e-mails from Steven from Finest for Dogs. He will help you with getting your free bottle of Omegease. AND PLEASE, let me know how your pup is doing once you get started!
It’s Been a Three Dog House
Sunday I posted a photo of our daughter’s dog, Beau in my You Make Me Smile feature. Our daughter and Beau stayed with us this past week. I admit I was nervous about Beau coming as the last time he was here, when he was just a puppy, the dogs hated him.
We started it out slowly. The first time Beau came over, he was outside in the yard, while Sampson and Delilah were inside. They never saw each other, in fact, I’m not sure if any of them knew the other(s) were there.
The second time Beau came over was when Delilah saw him through the glass door, but was really cool about it.
The next time Beau was over both Sampson and Delilah watched him from the little balcony. Our daughter took him out of the car, walked him up and down the street, put him back in the car and the dogs simply stayed and watched. (Which was amazing in itself, since they feel it’s their duty to let any dog on the street know that they are in fact, watching it.)
Then came the big day. We asked our daughter to meet us up at the park. Delilah and I started walking in, while Hubby and our daughter let Sampson and Beau get reacquainted. Delilah and I slowed so our daughter and Beau could walk with us. Side by side we walked into the park.
You snort a lot. Did anyone ever tell you that?
When we got to the field, we let the dogs leashes drop and let them explore and run around. Beau was interested in Sampson and Delilah, but neither one of them was interested in Beau.
After a few minutes we headed back to the house and Beau came inside with us.
Beau found the toy box and promptly fell in love with the rubber chicken.
Delilah wasn’t thrilled and climbed right into Daddy’s lap for comfort.
Sampson just went downstairs to hang with Grandma.
We told our daughter, the only thing we will ask is you remove Beau from the room when we feed the dogs, because Delilah can be possessive of her food, and we weren’t really sure how she’d react with another dog close by.
Here’s how that first day went:
Beau kept approaching Sampson and Delilah, but neither of them wanted anything to do with him. After Sampson went downstairs Delilah and I went into our room, put a little music on and chilled.
Beau ventured into our room. Delilah growled and let him know, this was our safe place. I got up and escorted him out.
After a while Delilah got up and went out into the living room.
The next thing I heard was a whole lot of barking/growling/snarking, then some yelling. Then I heard Hubby say, “Come here pretty” and he led Delilah into the room.
She wasn’t shaken up per say, but she was happy to climb on the bed with me and get some loving. When I touched her neck it was soaking wet and I was afraid to pull my hand away because I was afraid it would be blood.
I was never more happy to have a drool covered hand in my life.
I wasn’t in the room so I can only relay what was told to me. And depending upon who you speak with, will depend upon which dog was at fault.
They both however agreed upon this. Our daughter sat down to eat her food and Delilah of course was glued to her side at the table. Beau came up behind Delilah, presumably to get some food (our daughter feeds him bits from her meal) and Delilah went after him.
Whether it was because Delilah was letting him know who was top dog when it came to food or whether it was because he came up behind her (which she absolutely hates) I really don’t know. All I know is dogs snarky at each other is pretty loud and scary. Thankfully neither of them was injured. (Although my daughter did say she found what appeared to be a bite mark behind Beau’s ear a few days later. He had however just spent a month with a rambunctious little Newfoundland puppy (can you really call a Newfie ‘little”?) so I’m guessing he could have had some marks from that.)
For the most part, that is the worst of the issues. My guys never really warmed up to him even though he did keep trying. There were also a couple of times when Sampson snarled at him because he came near him, but mostly my guys did their very best to avoid him at all costs.
Our daughter moved to her own place yesterday and I’m not sure how Beau did, but I can tell you Sampson and Delilah were quite happy.
There was some of this going on.
And a whole lot of squeaking of this guy.
How do your dogs do when other people visit with their dogs?
Good to know that there was no bloodshed and that your daughter now has a home of her own!
Thank you thank you for the contest and that I won the bottle of Omegeanse I can’t wait to try it. Sure glad no one was harmed during the little tiff. dogs will be dogs and have a little squabble over food, Gambler is protective of his food but the little bastard is picky and waits til the other dogs are done with theirs before he starts barking, growling and farting while spitting his kibbles all over the place just to make it be known that is his food and stay away when the dogs are no where’s near it. Idoit!
That’s good that there was no bloodshed! Delilah sounds just like Zoe!
It really depends on what dog is visiting. The dog that visited us when we lived at our inlaws they absolutely hated and we had to keep them separate. They are fine with their friend Marley, though! As long as the dog that’s visiting is polite they usually do okay. Any dogs that are overly pushy or rude to them get snarked at.
Glad everyone escaped unhurt! Doggie scuffles can be loud and scary. We haven’t had any doggie visitors since our grand-dog, Max, was a puppy. And that was before Ducky joined us. But the girls did well with Max the few times we puppy-sat. The scuffles between Shadow and Ducky have decreased substantially; but when we’re not going to be home, Ducky stays in her crate and the puppy gate is put in the bedroom doorway.
When my mum visited with her blue heeler pup Arthur, Merlin was ecstatic and wanted to play all day long with him. Arthur growled at Merlin a few times cos he was being too full-on with him when he wanted to rest and Merlin didn’t.
That is scary. We have never had overnight doggie house guests, but when I had knee surgery, Cupcake was the guest of her best dog friend for 8 days. We practiced by visiting the house a few times for an hour or so at a time. Everyone got along well. Thank God. When her dog friend visits here, she plays with Cupcake’s toys, drinks her water, and Cupcake seems fine with it.
Our fellow agility friends have told us they’d be more than happy to have Earl and Ethel if we’re ever away. Earl and Ethel get on well with their dogs at training, but we’d had to do a trial night beforehand, just for my peace of mind!
We learned from early on to have friends over, but we always meet outside first and have a walk around the block if not longer. Then we all go into the yard together and hang out a bit, lastly, we come into the house and all get a treat. So far we have never had any problems. Sadly, we don’t have many dogs dropping by to practice with, but when it happens, it works for us.
Wow…what a wonderful meeting. You did everything right…you should be proud of your babies!!!
Good job jodi!!!
Congrats to the winners of the Omegease and congrats to you avoiding any bloodbaths! Sounds to me like you did a terrific job re-introducing the dogs to each other. When my mom was alive we had a similar experience. Our four dogs were only slightly interested in the newcomer. Her dog was very interested in my dogs AND he thought he was the King… that didn’t go over well when he tried to tell Lucy that. All four of my dogs wanted to let him know Lucy was in charge here. Thankfully no blood was shed, but we could never allow them to be together at all after that. The dummy was a Lhasa Apso and a real asshat.
My dogs totally ignore any visiting dog as in they give them a thorough sniffing and then they all go into another room. My guess is that they gossip and start rumors about the visitor.
Well, we’ve never had to face that – partly because I don’t think my guys would handle it too well either. Glad there were no major catastrophes!
Glad everything was OK in the end there, but it must have been stressful! We haven’t had dog visitors since the girls were younger, but they were always fine with it.
We need to get Luke used to strange people coming over before we could even begin to think about other dogs!
Happy to hear all’s well that ends well. And a huge thank you for drawing our name in the drawing. When Steven emailed me I was flabbergasted and babbled something back at him that was probably super incoherent (hey I get excited-sue me-we rarely win anything). Thanks so very much. We’ll be in touch and let you know how it’s working once it arrives; I’m looking forward to seeing a beautiful flowy Liberace coat on Sam, more than the usual puff ball that he is. 😉
Poor Beau. Never fun to be the odd man out. I think you did an excellent job at trying to make things go as smoothly as they did. Blueberry doesn’t mind puppies, but adult dogs can take a flying leap. She does not like to share me and as docile as she is 99% of the time, it was really eye opening to see her 1% crazy crabby face. It was like someone threw water on her and her inner Gremlin emerged.
Dogs can be so weird, can’t they? I’m glad to know it was just drool and not blood, that would have scared the crap out of me. Laika gets way tooooo excited when we have doggie visitors, as in she’s the one that gets told off by others because she won’t leave them alone/try to play. My last dog however acted like an uppity snot with other dogs. He wouldn’t even acknowledge them, he’d try his best to avert everything to do with them, though he never got snarky.
Glad to know the visit went pretty well besides that one hiccup, it can be a bit nerve wrecking to say the least – especially when food is involved.
Wilson is a sweet, mellow boy so any dog is welcome in our house although he will not play with them. At 12, he is much too dignified for that. Jimmy cannot be trusted whatsoever. Just when you think he will be OK, he SNARKS! I don’t know why he is such a jerk since he has been well-socialized his entire life, but he is, so he requires careful management.
Lila just grins and bears it when other dogs come over for a visit. Our daughter has a German Shepherd puppy and our son has a beagle and blue healer mix. We haven’t had all three over here for a while, but tonight they will all be at our house. That could make for an interesting blog post! I’m glad your dogs survived! Hope ours do too. 🙂
Happy to hear Sampson and Delilah are happy again, Jodi. 🙂
I’m glad everyone survived. I can see how getting your hand covered in drool was a relief on that occasion!
You can call a Newfie pup ‘little’ but not for long! That reminds me of when I was about five months old and someone asked to make a fuss of me and called me a lovely little pup. My biped asked, ‘little?” in surprise, as we were more used to hearing “huge” by then. The other biped laughed and said she had two adult versions at home, so I did seem “little”!
I think it is hard to introduce a visiting dog to a home where two dogs have been living alone for so long. Glad there was no blood shed.