How To Introduce Your Puppy To Your Other Dogs

Yeah! So, what we're doing today? So, don't mind me today you guys! I have a little bit of a cold. I may sound a little bit funny on camera, but today we wanted to take a few minutes and talk to you guys about how to introduce a new puppy to your multi-dog household. We've gotten this question quite a few times in the comments and I thought today would be a good time to talk about it. If you guys are new here, don't forget to hit that subscribe button, click that bell and turn on all notifications, so you can find out whenever we post new videos. Let's get into this! Now, I'm going to explain to you guys the method that Jamie and I have always used when bringing a new puppy home. This is not a method that will work for everybody. There are many different ways you can do this. My dogs Memphis and Shelby are both very socialized with other dogs. They meet a lot of other dogs on quite often. We have friends that bring their dogs over, so they're pretty used to dogs coming and going in the house. So, as you guys saw, if you didn't, I will put a link up above and down below. When we first brought little Miss Kira home, we kind of just brought her right into the house. We brought her in, we let them check her out, we took them all outside together and kind of let them interact that way. Then, we always make sure that we're really close by as they continue to interact, in case somebody gets a little too excited or if Kira starts to get scared. Now, that is what we have normally done when we have brought home a new puppy. Another thing that people tend to do is they will take their dogs to an off-site location, so not your house. Take them to, you know, just somewhere, a park, somewhere where your current dogs don't necessarily go all the time. So, take them there and then bring the puppy there, you know, in a separate car. This tends to work really well if you're adopting an adult dog. It kind of gives you that area of not your home territory to introduce them. So, you're letting them kind of get to know each other in a place that is different and doesn't smell like home and then you're bringing them back home together. That can be another really good way to introduce dogs together. Another tip is not all dogs necessarily get along with other dogs. If your dog has not been properly socialized with other dogs, it's going to be a lot harder for you to introduce a puppy into your home. So, you want to make sure that your dogs, from the day you get them, you are working with them on socializing and one of the ways you can do this is puppy classes and they don't even have to be puppy classes. If you have an older dog, take a beginner's class, take an intermediate class, a class where you're there with other dogs. Your dog is learning how to behave, how to be around other dogs, how to interact with other dogs or reach out to a trainer for help to really get your dog to be social with other dogs before you even think about bringing a new puppy or a new dog into your home. Now, once you get past all that and you've brought the puppy home and your pets seem to be doing really well together, one of the things that I like to do is I like to teach our puppy patience. She needs to learn that she is not the top dog in the house. She's the baby. She needs to respect Shelby and she needs to respect Memphis and it's so funny that they're all sleeping right here. In this video, all of the dogs are napping but they do look pretty cute don't they? I mean come on, look at them, they're so cute. So anyway, one of the things we're teaching Kira is patience and by that I mean when we let the dogs outside and we bring them back in, Kira is the last to get her reward. She's the last to get a treat. So Shelby gets a treat then Memphis gets a treat then Kira gets a treat. I make her sit for her treat. If she's jumping up and being all crazy, I don't give it to her. I make her wait. Same thing goes for when we're feeding her and actually right now Kira is being fed in her kennel but when she's done a lot of times you guys know Shelby is a lot slower at eating. I let Kira out. Kira has already learned that she is not allowed to approach Shelby while Shelby is eating so she will get a couple feet away from her and she'll just sit and wait. I've been working on her for space so that she knows to give her space and stay a little bit away from her until she's done eating. Not to run up and put her face in the bowl. These are just some things that we've been working on and it's something that you need to consider when you're bringing a new puppy into your home. I know you guys probably have a lot of questions about this so I'm going to try to really monitor the comments on this video. If you have questions like detailed questions about how to bring a puppy into your home, how to introduce a new puppy to your other dogs, please leave them down below and I will do my best to go through these comments and answer them over the next couple of days. I am also going to put a link up in the cards above and down in the video description below to my friends over at McCann Dog Training which have an even more detailed different way of introducing your puppy to your dogs and I really like the way they do it and it's something that I think will work for a lot of people so if you want to check that out again when you're done watching this video it'll be in the cards or down in the video description below. You should definitely go check that out and if you're looking for amazing amazing dog training tips that is a great channel to check out. They are actually professional dog trainers whereas I just train my dogs. One other thing that I realized I didn't mention as I was editing this video is the importance of spending individual time with each of your dogs even when you bring your puppy home. It is very important to still give each of your dogs a little bit of individual time playing with them one-on-one. You want to make sure that they each know that they're still special and cared for and by spending a little bit of one-on-one time with each of the dogs they will know that the puppy is not taking the place of anybody else. So another tip I have we were not able to do this with Kira because we actually got Kira from a friend of ours in New Jersey. That's right Kira was born in New Jersey. She had quite a trip to get to us. We were very fortunate that we had some friends that actually brought her part of the way here so Kira had a long trip to get here but another thing that you can do if you're getting a puppy is when you go visit your puppy we never got to visit Kira before we got her we just did everything through photos and videos with our friends but if you have a chance to go visit your new puppy or your new dog that you're adopting take something with you take a brand new toy or a blanket and play with that dog or that puppy with it and then bring that toy or blanket home and let your other dogs sniff you and sniff that toy so kind of get used to that smell and then when they do come home they'll be like oh I remember that was the smell that you had on you the other day just kind of gets them used to that smell so those are kind of just a few tips that we had I know a lot of you were asking about that as you can tell our dogs are already doing really well together they're very socialized Shelby is tolerating Kira very well Shelby's a little bit older so she's very set in her ways sometimes if Kira tries to lay on her Shelby will grunt at her and get up and move away whereas Memphis and Kira snuggle all the time I'm surprised they're not doing it right now but I have so many pictures of them snuggling they tend to snuggle all the time so again you guys that's all we really have for today I had a plan for a different video today but I'm not feeling the greatest so we're gonna put this up for now and I'm gonna push back my other video till Friday um in other news in one week we are leaving on a big trip to go to California with the dogs so if you live in or around Los Angeles California we will be at PetCon where you can have a chance to meet all three of these girls at PetCon it's petcon.co if you want to get tickets to the event there'll be a whole bunch of other celebrity pets there as well so if you want a chance to meet these girls and you live in or around the Los Angeles California area you can do that there I'm gonna go because these girls are just napping just napping all right you guys if you're new to this channel and you like what you saw don't forget to hit that subscribe button like this video and share it with your friends because it really really really does help us grow the pawdience as always thanks so much for watching thanks for subscribing stay positive dream big and we will see you again on Friday also if you want to see more of who we are and what we do and see videos five days a week you can head over to youtube.com slash snow dogs vlogs where we upload videos five days a week thanks for watching you guys we will see you again soon goodbye guys goodbye pawdience