Bringing New Female Lab Puppy Home To 2 Yr Old Desexed Male Lab

[LabsAreSweet]

Hello All

We have a gorgeous nearlly 2 yr old male desexed chocolate labrador named Jaffa whom is such a special man in our lives. He is our shaddow, he comes to work with me in the car, drops the kids at school and apart from grocery shopping lol spends 95% of his time with us..

We have arranged to buy a yellow 8 week old girl and are picking her up tonight (i know i should have asked his ALOT sooner!!) and wanted to know if there is a good way to introduce them??

Jaffa is so chilled, isnt overly energetic, though he LOVES playing, is sweet natured and is an all round lovely Lab (as they all are) but I want to make sure we are being safe and also making sure he isnt distressed about the new arrival.

They will both come to work with me for the first little while until the puppy is big enough to start being left at home with him without much fuss..

Jaffa has his own bed on the floor in the lounge room and we will give her one in there too..

what are your suggestions regarding food & water bowl placement etc?

The dogs will have use of the doggy door so can go inside & out as they please.

Any help is appreciated I want to make this a smooth and stress free as possible transition for everyone..

NOTE: We have 2 children whom are amazing with Jaffa.. our son & jaffa have bonded like nothing i have ever seen before so I think they will be just as great with the new dog..

[RiverStar-Aura]

Make sure you have somewhere for the pup to have time out in -- even a playpen. This can be used to separate the dogs when supervision can't be provided, for a place too doze after puppy wears herself out and also as a place to put the pup to give Jaffa some much needed him time.

Hold the new pup in your arms and make sure Jaffa is sitting. Slowly bend down or kneel so Jaffa and pup can sniff each other. From there depends on the interaction. If Jaffa is cool with the pup you can place her on the ground but you still must supervise. That's the most important thing!!

What's her name?

Edited to say: you could always have Jaffa on a lead too just to restrict his movement.

Edited June 21, 2012 by RiverStar-Aura

[Tara8430]

Hi pop over to the breed sub forums and go into 'those crazy labradors' alot of the guys in there have two labs and should be able to help you out.

*Edit to include - we would love to see some pictures in th labrador thread :D

Edited June 21, 2012 by Tara8430

[tlc]

Its sounds like your boy is pretty cruisy, you haven't mentioned if he has had a lot of time around other dogs/puppies?

With introducing all of mine when they were tiny pups, I always did it on neutral territory, not sure if this makes a difference but I never has any trouble with any of my initial meetings, they all just fitted in with each other. Mine were all very used to young puppies from our interaction with obedience school so I think this helped.

Mine always had a safe place to retreat to if need be, to sleep or rest in peace away from the other dogs.

With regards to feeding, I have always feed mine together but with their bowls far enough away from each other so they feel comfotable that their food is their own, but even now I still supervise every feed, in that I am in the general area. With mine If there is a disagreement between dogs it is always over food.

With regard to play, I supervised mine and if I thought the play got too rough for pup I would intervene but this only happened very rarley, with my second pup, I had to intervene to stop the pup (female) being too rough with the older dog (male) :laugh:

Enjoy your new little bundle they don't stay puppies for long enough.

Photos?

[LabsAreSweet]

Thank you all so much for your replies.. I knew I'd find a weath of knowledge here!!!

Jaffa has had alot to do with other dogs/puppies..

Our street alone has 4 labs, a collie, a husky & 2 small cross breed dogs that he has known since he came home.. He is always very welcoming to new dogs, when we visit the dog park he is very submissive he will not in any way fight or bark/growl/get agressive if dogs come up at him and try to start anything... he has actually run away from 4 dogs at the park last week and started growling etc at him he ran back to me lol

at my office (we run a family business) he interacts with my parents 14yr old shih tzu and the neighbours collie who is a pup too... he is very social and happy. he has never been involved in a skuffle and is the first one to back down...

we have a laundry that is still fairly centred to the down stairs part of the house (dogs dont go upstairs) so we can use that as her 'alone area' with a gate on it for cut off so she can even sleep in there at night if need be and maybe i'll put a rug down for jaffa if he wants to stay near her? do u think thats a good idea???

Hopefully the meet goes well, he smelt her on us last night when we came home, and was very interested so maybe thats a good sign??????

We havent made a final call on the name, however the 2nd i held her I thought 'Nissa' but hubby hasnt agreed or disagreed with it yet so who knows lol

I'll be reading this all day to see any more comments, i welcome them all... :) thanks guys

Ps - Def put up pics :D tomrrow!!!

[tlc]

It sounds like you will have nothing to worry about at all. Look forward to pics, and welcome to DOL. :)

[LabsAreSweet]

Hi pop over to the breed sub forums and go into 'those crazy labradors' alot of the guys in there have two labs and should be able to help you out.

*Edit to include - we would love to see some pictures in th labrador thread :D

Can you please link me to this page??

I cant find it would love to see it!

[Primedogs]

Hi pop over to the breed sub forums and go into 'those crazy labradors' alot of the guys in there have two labs and should be able to help you out.

*Edit to include - we would love to see some pictures in th labrador thread :D

Can you please link me to this page??

I cant find it would love to see it!

Here you go :D

http://www.dolforums.com.au/topic/108730-those-crazy-labradors/