In all the books I've read they say you're not suppose to expose
your new dog to a lot people and activity right off the bat. Well
Murph was exposed to all my relatives when I first got him,
because my grandfather died that night. I didn't want to leave
my new puppy at home alone, when I got the call in the middle
of the night, so I took him with me to my grandparent's home,
where everybody was gathering, waiting for him to be taken
away by the coroners. My mom was initially upset with me, but
after she saw how much it was helping everybody, including my
grandmother, to hold and play with the puppy, she admitted
bringing him turned out to be a wonderful thing. Murph turned
out to be such a gregarious chap, that I decided maybe the
books were wrong about the isolation thing.

So when I got Maddie, I took her straight from the breeders
to visit with some friends. She never once seemed shy or
scared. She had a marvelous time getting showered with
so much attention and she turned out to be very outgoing with
people too. It was a different story when I introduced to Murph,
that first day. He was 6 mos old at the time, so quite a bit bigger
than an 8 week old puppy. He loved her at first sight and wanted
to play. She growled at him to back off and he ran from her like
she was Rottweiler. She's has had him hen pecked ever since.

Oz was shipped via airplane from Wisconsin to me, so I thought
he'd be scared by the time he got here. Nope, he was thrilled
to death to see me. I took him straight from the airport to a
family b-b-que and he had a blast playing with everybody. He's
also turned out to be very people oriented. The introduction
with Murph and Maddie later that same day turned out pretty
good too. He wanted to play with them right off the bat. It took
Murph a couple of days to warm up to him and want to play.
Whereas Maddie was friendly initially to him and then after a few
days of being nose poked, decided he should stay out of her
space. But for the most part she tolerated him pretty good.

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