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Hey everyone, I've been reading the forums and I got the courage to ask a couple of questions.
I have a french minitoy, eight years old (Killer, my wife's dog before I met her... she gave her that name as a joke and it stuck). He's quite cranky. Also, I got a two month old Basset recently (yeah, too early from what I've been reading recently. Her name is Nico).
The thing is... I don't understand some behaviors and I wanted to ask some advice about this, because I'm new to this puppy stuff and also, Nico is my first dog... ever, no matter how much I read I really want to ask to people who has experience (yeah, I bought a couple of books, and I've been crawling the internet about puppy training like I am obsessed).
Killer growls at the puppy protecting its territory or its space. Nico goes around and tries to bite him. I corrected this, she doesn't bite anymore, but she put her paws above him. Killer keeps growling and growling until he snaps.
I know this is normal. A puppy wanting to play and stuff.
But sometimes, they share the same bad and they sleep. No growls, no bites, not a snap.
Then, Killer gets up, sometimes Nico goes after him, sometimes she doesn't. When she goes, this paw stuff punching Killer's head goes again. I don't know if I should leave matters to both dogs or if I should correct both of them. No growling, and no putting paws in the head.
I was wondering if there was something to make Killer's life more pleasant or to help them get along.
What do you think about it?
I have a french minitoy, eight years old (Killer, my wife's dog before I met her... she gave her that name as a joke and it stuck). He's quite cranky. Also, I got a two month old Basset recently (yeah, too early from what I've been reading recently. Her name is Nico).
The thing is... I don't understand some behaviors and I wanted to ask some advice about this, because I'm new to this puppy stuff and also, Nico is my first dog... ever, no matter how much I read I really want to ask to people who has experience (yeah, I bought a couple of books, and I've been crawling the internet about puppy training like I am obsessed).
Killer growls at the puppy protecting its territory or its space. Nico goes around and tries to bite him. I corrected this, she doesn't bite anymore, but she put her paws above him. Killer keeps growling and growling until he snaps.
I know this is normal. A puppy wanting to play and stuff.
But sometimes, they share the same bad and they sleep. No growls, no bites, not a snap.
Then, Killer gets up, sometimes Nico goes after him, sometimes she doesn't. When she goes, this paw stuff punching Killer's head goes again. I don't know if I should leave matters to both dogs or if I should correct both of them. No growling, and no putting paws in the head.
I was wondering if there was something to make Killer's life more pleasant or to help them get along.
What do you think about it?
