where can i find a shelter that has dogs in it (especially baby beagles)?

Question

also, my mom wants this dog but we already have a dog. she is a mixed terrier and is about 3 yrs. old. do u think she will be jealous?
i need the shelter to be in massachusetts and not 2 far from boston!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please answer

Answer 1

Try looking for local shelters through the following websites:

petfinder.com
pets911.com
1-800-save-a-pet.com
nextdaypets.com

Most of these sites have search engines that can locate dogs and shelters in your area by city name or zip code.

When you introduce your new dog to the established one, you will need to make sure that the established dog doesn't lose its place in your "pack". Feed it first, give it attention and affection first, and let it have what toys / space it wants first. This tells the new dog that the established dog has a "higher" standing in the household "pack"; and reassures the established dog that it isn't being "replaced" by the newcomer. As long as the established dog doesn't lose its place in your "pack", it should accept the new dog more readily.

Answer 2

www.petfinder.com is the place to go. You can look up dogs in your area, by location, by breed, by gender, by age, etc. Skip the pet stores or the puppy mills and save a dog from a shelter or rescue group. You want a beagle? They are plentiful. I am sure you will find a dog that is compatible with your terrier.

Answer 3

Most cities have some form of the Humane society, check the listing and call!

Answer 4

Go to www.petfinder.org and start your search there.

Answer 5

Most animal shelters have dogs unless its just a cat animal shelter.
I went to this site: adoptapet.com and typed in your area. They brought up several such like All Pets Rescue, Inc.
Check the site out and Good Luck!

Terriers are sometimes territoral creatures( depending on what terrier you have). I have had several breeds of terriers. She might be jealous at first if you pay more attention to the new dog and not to her. Here is how you can introduce the new dog to the old dog( assuming that you will get a new dog).

Introducing a New Dog into a Home with Other Dogs

Without having DOG FIGHTS
INTRODUCIONG DOGS IN A HOME WITH OTHER DOGS

The problems encountered when introducing a new dog into a home which already has another dog are often underestimated by pet owners.

This can be a difficult if not dangerous situation when its not handled correctly. Many people think they can just bring a new dog home and let the dogs work things out themselves. For the lucky ones this works out OK, but more often than not people find themselves in the middle of a dog fight and wonder what went wrong.

Dogs are pack animals. The average pet owner does not have a clue about how strong the genetic instincts are that float just under the fur of their lovable family pet.

The average pet owner does not realize how the addition of a second or third dog into their home will trigger a genetic pack drive or RANK DRIVE response in their best friend. In fact many people are shocked and confused when they see the aggression that results from their family dog.

There is usually more than one thing going on that result in these problems. To name just a few; a house dog is often territorial; they can be rank or dominant; or there can be inter-male or inter-female issues that resulkt in aggression.

Three dogs are a dog pack.

Understand what I just said - THREE DOGS ARE A DOG PACK !!! The vast majority of pet owners don’t realize this.



Here are some of the issues that develop when people create dog packs:

Dogs become much more territorial (just like wolves packs)

Three dogs will develop a pack or RANK ORDER which includes a pack leader. Every dog in the pack knows exactly what it's rank is within that dog pack and if they don’t feel they have a strong human pack leader, one of the three dogs will step to the line and become the leader.

Remember that a dog can lover you and not respect you. These are two totally different things.

Most dogs don’t want to be the pack leaders. When it’s force on them they get stressed and nervous.

When a new dog is added to a home every dog in that house has to re-establish its personal rank is within the new family pack. Re-establishing rank is where dog fights come from.

By the way the worst dog fights are inter-female dog fights (they are fierce)

When fights begin in a larger pack (4 or more dogs), most of the time all the dogs will gang up on the newer dog.

Once a dog has been attacked it is often traumatized for life. These dogs will always be leery of meeting new dogs. In fact, once a dog has been attacked it will often become dog aggressive and automatically want to fight any new dogs that it sees.

Unless they receives the correct training these dogs will be fighters for the rest of their lives. They take the approach that a good offense is their best defense.

When dogs have strong pack leaders this does not happen. The human pack leader makes it crystal clear that this aggressive behavior is uncalled for and will not be tolerated.

In addition the human pack leader shows his dog or dogs that he will protect them FROM OTHER DOGS. This is very important issue that the average dog owner doesn’t realize, but I guarantee you your dog does.

Our goal in introducing a new dog into a family which already has other dogs comes down to "bringing another member into the family pack in a manner that is seamless and nonviolent".

I can’t and won’t give you a step by step way to do this for every dog. Every dog is different, every owner has their own strengths and weaknesses and every pack has its own personality.

What I will do is provide you with training steps. It will be your responsibility to determine how many of these steps you need to use.

With this said I caution you about going to fast and skipping steps. You have nothing to loose in letting this process take some time and using all the steps, you have a lot to loose if you screw up and end up with a dog fight.

The most important part of this process is to get and use dog crates. We have a dog crate for every dog in the house. Just because your current dogs don’t use crates is not a good enough reason to not use them in this process.

We put the new dog in a dog crate in our home where the other dogs can go up and smell the new comer. If our house dogs growl at the new dog, we immediately step right in and give a strong correction.

Your job as THE PACK LEADER IS TO SHOW YOUR DOGS THAT YOU WILL NOT TOLLERATE AGGRESSION TOWARDS THIS NEW PACK MEMBER.

Pack leaders decide when there will be a fight and by your stopping aggression you are reminding them who the leader is.
We put prong collars or REMOTE COLLARS or dominant dog collars on our house dogs and let them drag a short leash around the house. If they growl we then have the tools in place to give an appropriate correction.


If you have a rank problem between you and your dog then you are going to have to deal with that before you introduce this new dog. There is no reason to rush the introduction of a new dog into your home. It can take weeks or even months for that matter. We have 5 house dogs. We have 5 crates in our basement furnace room. Three of our dogs can be out together and the other two are never out when another dog is loose. The odds are they never will be out with other dogs. We accept this as a fact of life.

We rotate our dogs through the house, through their dog crates and through the outside dog kennels and yards.

During the period that you are introducing an adult dog into you home you will have times when your existing dogs are in their crates and the new dog is loose or on a line in the house. This is the time that you establish your relationship with this new dog. This is done through grooming, walks, play, and obedience training.

Establishing a relationship means that you are subtly teaching the dog that you as the boss (or pack leader). This is done by controlling every aspect of this dogs life.
Now back to introducing a the dogs.

During the first weeks the only time our dogs are around one another is when one of them is in a crate and the others are loose. We will know when they are beginning to accept one another because they will begin to ignore one another.

This means that they are beginning to accept one another as pack members.

When that happens you can start to think about how to introduce the dogs outside of the crates.

We always handle introductions with both dogs on leash and either a prong collar or a dominant dog collar.

I would like to make the point here that for this work I prefer a dominant dog collar over a prong collar. Many times a prong collar correction can over stimulate a dog and result in redirected aggression. This means a stressed dog attacking either the handler or the other dog.

I explain it to new handlers like this - a prong can put more drive into a dog and a dominant dog collar takes drive out of a dog. At this point we want to take drive out of a dog.

We handle the introduction by taking the dogs for walks together. If there is even the slightest possibility of a fight we will muzzle the dogs (more on that later)

The bottom line is to error on the side of caution and safety.

Your first walks should be away from your home and the route you take should not be the normal route you have walked your house dogs for the past 3 years. They consider that route their personal territory and you run the risk of territorial aggression.

During the introductory walks keep the leash loose. If they dogs pull they need a firm POP correction. A tight leash can causes frustration in the dogs and this could trigger re-directed aggressive.

If things go well on these walks then that’s great, but again there is no hurry. You have the rest of your dog’s lives to get things settled. One mistake at this stage could lead to a fight from which some dogs never mentally recover.

When the walks have gone well we will introduce them on either side of a chain link fence. The leash is dropped and dragging on the ground. One dog goes inside the yard by itself and the second dog is on a leash outside the yard.

They can sniff through the fence like they did through the dog crate, but here they feel less restricted. They certainly cannot get into a real fight. .


When the walks and fence are going well there comes a time to allow your dogs to meet face to face when you are not holding the leashes. Allow them to sniff one another. Talk to them in a firm commanding neutral voice.

Keep the meeting short. Then take them for a walk together. If there is any growling they always get a VERY STRONG VERBAL NO !!

Be prepared to use the dominant dog collar the way it is intended to be used (lift the dogs front feet off the ground by the leash). When dog fights begin they are often right out of the blue and lighting fast.

In extreme cases where you are not sure of what may happen, both dogs should have a muzzle on. That way if there is a fight the dogs will not get injured and you can step in and break the fight up without getting dog bit.

If you screw up and a dog fight starts - NEVER STEP IN AND TRY TO BREAK UP THE FIGHT by grabbing both collar. There is a protocol to follow in breaking up dog fights.
DOG FIGHTS are very dangerous events.
When I introduce 2 adult dogs I will allow sniffing but no dominant posturing – it’s called "T-ing” off. In other words the dominant dog will put its head over the top shoulder of the other dog and press down.


One of the most common causes of dog fights in the home are fights over food and toys. Feed the dogs in dog crates or in different rooms. Pick any uneaten food up after 15 minutes. You will be surprised at how fast your dog will clean his food bowl when he understands that you always take the food away after 15 minutes.

Never allow the dogs to be together with toys. Toys are triggers for dog fights. So NO TOYS left laying around !!

When the meetings in the back yard are working, then you can try allowing the dogs to be loose together in your home.

We make them wear a drag line and we keep complete control. In other words we don’t allow them to run around like crazy dogs. We make them all do a “down stay” so they are looking and listening to US and not thinking about being stupid with one another.

It becomes very clear who is the pack leader (ME !!)

Again, if there are questions use a muzzle

Never allow dogs on the furniture or on your bed. That's just asking for dominance problems. You will have enough pack juices flowing without allowing things to happen that increase rank issues.


Do not attempt to use a remote collar for dog aggression unless you research the collar. If you do it wrong you will instigate a dog fight that you may not be able to deal with.

Keep one last thing in mind. There are some dogs that no matter what you do they will never reliably accept another dog. Keep an open mind about this. If you like both dogs and are not willing to re-home one of them then you simply use two dog crates and keep them separated. Frankly its not that big of a deal.

What blows my mind are the people who say they are going to kill one of their dogs because they can’t stop the fighting. That’s crazy. Just keep them separated.

Also those people who will tell you to just put the dogs together and let them work it out are people who are drop dead stupid. They have not seen the damage from a serious fight. You can tell them to go look at the dog bite pictures on this web site.


DOG PARKS

I caution people not to bring their dogs to these places. It is not a matter of if your dog will be attacked; it’s only a matter of when will it happen.

It's survival of the fittest in dog parks.

The same can be said for some doggy day care places.

If they use crates and introduce dogs slowly then it's a well run establishment. If they just toss dogs in a big room and stand back and watch, then don't do business with them.

In closing I want to make the point that just because you made mistakes in how you introduced your dogs does not mean that you cannot start from scratch again. It may work, it may not work. There is nothing lost in trying.
In extreme cases where you are not sure of what may happen, both dogs should have a muzzle on. That way if there is a fight the dogs will not get injured and you can step in and break up the fight.
Allowing dogs to lie on furniture is only asking for dog fights and dominance issues. In this case these dogs almost killed the litter dog on the back of the couch before the owner made the necessary changes to stop the dog fights he was having.