Dog Behaviour Advice.

[SAFalconer 10]

Hi guys I'm looking at get more dogs soon for hunting and I wanted to know if the behaviour of our exsisting dog would affect the new ones? If you need any additional info just ask. Thanks in advance.

[gnipper 6,467]

If it misbehaves and or barks a lot then yes it probably will affect the new ones.

[krawnden 1,036]

Puppies tend to follow the lead of older dogs so they pick up bad habits that way as well as good ones.

[Casso 1,261]

If you could be a bit more specific

Dogs become the equal and opposite of each other to live in harmony ,

What one likes the other wont much care for and likewise with other members of the pack,it's the natural rules of pack life,

Each pack of dogs make up a whole whatever number it is , 2, 3 or more if one goes the structure shifts to facilitate this,

So the behaviour of current dog will effect newcomers but maybe not in the way people expect

[SAFalconer 10]

Ok. Thanks. Well to be more specific he is 8 years old and has a bit of seperation anxity. He is not to bad but enough to be annoying. And he only does it when my mom leaves.

[Casso 1,261]

If a dog gets too much attention in its formative years, that attention becomes the metric for the dog feeling right, not good just normal,

 

So when that object /person /thing is missing the dog don't feel right

Calm , slow upbringing works , pup has his crate ,gets out to pee and whatever, no playing or fussing inside , less is more with pups with him having a big bone to occupy himself in the crate

 

Every pup is an open book , it's about knowing how to shape it so you don't have to correct it or are not creating problems for the future

Edited December 31, 2014 by Casso

[mushroom 12,912]

Great post casso

[SAFalconer 10]

Thanks.

[roybo 2,873]

Well put Casso...and it's an easy mistake to make ,making a lot of fuss Over a new pup especially with training and then visitors etc.

Noisy dogs usually stem from having a lot of attention then none at all,so the bark howl or whine to try to get the attention they need.

A mistake I've made more than once