Introducing a dominant dog to another dog

[Tollers-n-Dobes]

Keeva is an extremely dominant dog, while Tango is sort of inbetween. I introduced them with Kee on a leash at first and then let them loose together after I saw that they weren't going to attack eachother or something, there was a bit of growling and snarling involved for the first few days (about a week actually) until they learned who was boss (Tango). Keeva still tests it every once in a while but they get a long just fine, you have to give it time though. I'm not sure if all people have to do this or not, but I always feed and pet Tango first and Keeva last, if I don't Kee thinks that suddenly she's in charge and that just causes major problems. So far, all of that has seemed to work with them. I hope everything goes well for you, good luck!

[.sarah]

Thanks! I had heard about doing everything with the dominant dog first on a tv show, and I do that with my dogs now. I don't know if it really works for us or not, but I still do it just in case. Nova is so submissive that I don't think I'll ever have problems with her. She literally falls on her back and wags her tail constantly when she meets any dominant dog. She was also the most submissive in her litter (and that's one of the main reasons we picked her -- we didn't want Mandy to beat up on her like she did with Buttons. Poor dog, he just laid there and let her bite him, all because he was blind and accidentally wandered by her food bowl a few times ).

Lulu(the dog we will get)'s foster mom said she's semi-aggressive with unneutered males. Even if we had a male he would be neutered, so no problems there.