Introducing new bulldog to resident bulldog..need help!
Submitted by Nelsons_Mama on January 29, 2012 - 7:38pmHey there! I have a 9 month old male bulldog who we have had since he was 8 weeks and now today we adopted 1.5 year old female bulldog. We are lucky because the female, Daisy, is soooo sweet and doesn't mind our male, Nelson, at all. Nelson was neutered a week ago FYI. We have never had a problem with Nelson being aggressive before...and when we introduced the digs todaythey seemed to be fine for a few minutes but Nelson started growling and was trying to "bite" at her. Daisy didn't react at all and wasn't bothered by it. We are keeping Nelson in the kitchen with the gate up so they can still see each other and smell each other. Bur about twice we let him out and watched over them closely and they were fine for a good 5 minutes but out of nowhere Nelson goes over to daisy and does his growling and biting thing again. We then immediately put him back in the kitchen.
This is still only the first day, and we are going to keep working on it, but has any one else been in a situation like this?? Will it get better? Any advice?
<3 Nelson's Mama <3
My suggestions for introduction -
These were suggestions I received when I thought I might of had to rescue a bully -
1) introduce them in a neutral place -(Territorial issues)
2) Have your new bully be with a friend, when you introduce them, not mommy or daddy - Territorial issues)
3) see how they do from there - are they aggressive? are they playful?
remember they are Pack animals, and they have someone new in their territory, they need to set dominace or pecking order, that is when the Alpha Dog (the 2 legged ones must be Alpha) need to set that order.
The male might feel threatened right now (WHO is this in MY house!)
I'm sure others will have better suggestions than me, We only have Gizmo, so she's an only dog.
Last steps taken May 26, 2014 -- Been rolling along ever since . . . .
We had the same situation with Ollie...
His breeder wanted a good home for Newman, who was 8 months old at the time, and Ollie just really hates other dogs. We agreed to try it and see how things went. We kept them separated with an exercise pen and Ollie would run at the pen and was not very nice. After a few days, we let them be together and gave Ollie lots of treats when he was tolerating Newman. He would sometimes, out of the blue, try to intimidate, but he eventually lost interest, mostly because Newman is so passive that he would just flop on the floor when he saw Ollie coming. They actually get along great now after more than a year of being together. So there is hope, it just takes work and patience. We would give Ollie a firm no when he was mean and treats and praise when he was good. Hope they become friends, it's great for them to have someone to play with.