HELP! i have 2 adult dogs,amer.bulldog,an dachound,i bought a 10 wk old great dane,my dachound hates it.growls

Question

she wont go near it!she runs from "Abby".if puppy goes near her she bites at it,i have tryed to introduce them but "coco" wants no part of her,she dont want to be bothered,she is jealous of dane,and wants around me all the time even before puppy came along,i dont ignore coco,i love them all!My amer.bulldog will play with her but is a lil rough at times and growls when she has a rope and pup goes around her,i have had dane 4 days,and want them to just GETALONG!!!!!

Answer 1

Ok, the behaviour shown by your daschund is probably fear and perhaps some dominance issues - dogs tend to be aggressive when fearful. You need to seperate the two dogs. Put in a blanket or something that smells like the dane in the room with the daschund and vise versa, for them to become accustomed to the smell. Try feeding them on either side of a door, where they can smell each other but cannot see each other.
You then need to have short, supervised "socialisation" periods. Introduce your new pup to the daschund, with both on leads. Reassure your daschund as you do this, so that she is still getting attention. Any sign of aggressive behaviour, from either dogs, needs to be scolded with a firm "UH-UH" or "NO!" and then seperate and "time-out". This needs to be done every time this occurs for it to be effective, and both will learn this is not acceptable behaviour. This needs to be repeated each day, for short periods.
Your daschund needs to be reassured that she isn't being pushed out of the family with the introduction of a baby, and she still has her role in the pack. But, she also needs to learn that she has to accept the new family member. The pup also needs to learn to let the daschund have her space.
Your bulldog is trying to play, however being older tend to play rougher (my pup does this also). You need to supervise all play with any dog and your pup as sometimes the bigger dogs don't know their own strength. Keep in mind, however, that rough play is a part of dogs socialisation, and you pup will indicate when play is too rough by yelping.
Be patient and consistent. These are the keys!! I would probably keep your pup in a room for the night, away from the other two until you can be sure that they all get along. Remember your dane will grow to be quite a lot bigger than your daschund, and this can be quite intimidating. Also, pets are still like people and not necessarily going to like every animal they meet, so don't expect them to all become the best of friends. I have three indoor cats and two of them don't like each other, but are tolerant of each other - this is important. They are scolded whenever they are agressive towards each other, but are allowed to have their own space. Allow your daschund, and your bulldog, to have their own space where the pup isn't allowed to come.
I hope this helps and good luck!!

Answer 2

it may pass after a while, its just that the dachhound being jealous because a new member of the family has been intorduced.....scold the dachound when it growls at the puppy this way she will know that she is doing wrong and in the end she will learn to like the puppy, it is best if you try to keep the two dogs as separate as possible, however hard this may be, try getting a gate, if you don;t have one and keep them in separate rooms but they can still see each other, this way they won;t be able to harm each other be may begin to like each other i hope they will
good luck! :-)

Answer 3

first you take the 10 wk old great Dane and put it in another room
or you can give it away or you can let one of your close friends to watch him for you and can visit every day. But just don't put both of them together or they would start fighting and your whole house or apartment would really become a really ugly mess. and
make shore you could get the dogs a rag and tie a not and let them play tug a war.

Answer 4

They should have been introduced outside the home in a neutral territory. It's never a great idea to just bring a puppy home without other pets meeting it first. Try again in a neutral area.