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Multi-Dog Households

Managing multiple dogs

eight year single dog household just brought home a second dog six weeks ago after our golden was an only dog her entire life and the integration has gone meaningfully worse than the introduction guides prepared us for, the regression on the established dog has been what has surprised us most because she was the dog we were least worried about, looking for families who have done the long gap second dog introduction and what the actual months looked like inside it

Pia is an eight year old golden retriever we got at twelve weeks who has been an only dog her entire life. She came into a household that was set up to be a one dog household, she has had our full...

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three dog household where the pack dynamic has shifted three times in eighteen months and each shift made the household feel qualitatively different in ways the books on multi dog management do not name, want to write down what we lived through because the consumer advice frames a stable pack as a resting state and the actual pattern looks like a sequence of stable states with renegotiations in between that look like problems and are not

Three dogs in our house. Sable is a 6 year old lab mix who came to us as a puppy and has been the steady presence in the house her entire life. Atlas is a 5 year old husky we brought in at two years...

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eight months into a three dog household after adding an anatolian shepherd to our existing pyrenees and golden, want to write up the dynamics that nobody warned us about because the multi dog content online stops at the two dog case and the third dog changed almost everything about how the original pair functioned

The starting state. We had a stable two dog house for four years, Bjorn the great pyrenees who was 9 when we got the second dog, and Klaus the golden retriever who came in as a puppy at 8 weeks and...

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Adding a second dog was the best decision we made

Was so nervous about getting a second dog. What if they didnt get along? What if it was too much work? Theyre inseparable now. They play together, sleep together, keep each other company when were at...

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