New puppy, adult dog. Curious about their behavior.
Hello :). Recently my wife and I adopted a sweet Doxie-Pin named Remus. We already had a 3 year old mini beagle named Daisy. Daisy has always been super sweet to people and scared of most dogs except for my sister-in-law's Maltese. We knew it would be difficult for Daisy, because she has always been the princess of the house. That said we have been making sure she knows she isn't being replaced by doing everything in the book. Over the last week of having Remus she has certainly warmed up to him and has started tolerating being around him, but you know, puppies will be puppies.
Her behavior is mostly what seems to be frustration aggression with some jealously mixed in. When he sneaks by us and gets her toys she really doesn't seem to mind. Even when he tries to eat her food before we wrangle him up she just stands there and watch. So I see no food or toy aggression at all. She doesn't try to get in between us and him. Basically she just keeps to herself. Her personality really hasn't changed much, but she growls at bites at him a lot. She never really bites him, but she does put her mouth on him. He's yelped a couple times out of fear, but we make sure to step in if things go too far. Hopefully we are handling it correctly. We allow her to correct him when he is being annoying. Sometimes though, he will take off running around like a crazy and this seems to irritate her. She chases him all over, growling and snapping at him but never biting. She's rolled him a couple times. It would concern us more if she was a big dog, but she's only 12 pounds to his 5.
Ultimately it doesn't feel like cause for concern, but I really want to understand Daisy's behavior so I can help her cope and keep him from learning her behavior and using it later in his life. Any suggestions are much much appreciated. Thanks!
Submitted February 06, 2019 at 02:27PM by lookindewd
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