nabira

We get our new puppy at the end of January and I have a question for those in the know. The puppy is coming from Victoria and we're in NSW, and we were originally going to fly her over. However, my husband now thinks we should drive and get her instead because he thinks that it will be less stressful in an air conditioned car rather than waiting in the airport for the flight, then on the plane (and he reckons they'll just chuck her on, because he's watched them throw luggage on and they MUST treat animals the same way ). The drive would take us about 8 hours, whereas a flight would be an hour, plus another hour and a half once we've got her until home. What do you think would be best?

Thanks for the advice. Looks like we'll have to stop feeding with a kong in the mornings. Our older girl can probably be transitioned to one feed a day now, so I might just feed her at night and feed the puppy before we go to work. As I said in my first post, we'll definitely be feeding them separate. My older girl does Triangle of Temptation and has from when we first got her, and that is something we'll start with the puppy straight away too. We know how food crazy our older girl was when we got her though so they'll be fed in different rooms until the puppy learns exactly when she's allowed to eat. After that we'll transition to eating in the same room supervised. It's unfortunately impractical to separate them completely forever. Our older girl stays outside during the day as she's not allowed inside because she'll destroy something, and I don't like crating her all day because we only have a soft crate and she'll destroy that if she gets too bored. Obviously we won't be leaving them alone together until we know we can trust them to be alone together.

My husband and I are getting a new puppy in January. We already have one dog (she will be a year old when we get the puppy) and I have a question about meal times. We know to separate the puppy and adult dog at meal times - it's not fair on either of them. This is fine for the evening as our dog gets a mix of kibble and raw in her bowl. We will simply feed both dogs in different rooms. However, in the morning, our dog gets her breakfast kibble in a treat ball before we go to work to keep her occupied through the morning. We'd like to continue doing this when the puppy gets here, however it would mean that both would get their breakfasts together in the same area. How is the best way to go about this? Our puppy will have someone home with her for the first two weeks that we have her, and then we'll be slowly going back to work. Thanks in advance.