How to Introduce a Puppy to Your Older Dog.

In today's episode, professional dog trainer Bethany Preud'homme from PhDogs and PhDK9 will be explaining and demonstrating how she introduces a new puppy to an existing family dog.

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Bethany is the founder and co-owner of PhDogs. She is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer and canine educational expert. She was certified by the Certification Council for Professional Dog Trainers, where she graduated at the top of her class, and further became certified as an AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator. She was also the first K9 team to complete a thru-hike of the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail (3,000 miles).

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[AlBergstein]

We have just got an 11 week old puppy and used this video to introduce him to another of the same breed. Worked like a charm! Within 10 minutes he went from terrified to playing with him. Amazing. Thanks very much for this great short video!

[Diana-]

Oh my goodness that puppy is adorable look at all the kisses he’s giving his dad, gorgeous fluff ball. The adult dog Harley was fabulous that puppy was so bold 😂 well done all. Good advice re supporting the older dog, some people find it amusing when the puppy constantly harasses the old dog which is totally unfair. 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[pinkpanda]

Thank you so much for this video it helped a lot with introducing our new puppy to our 2 year old dog both are female and the two year old is very protective over us and her thing like water bowl and food, So we got new bowls and let the new puppy use it first and our older one was OK with her using it.

[littleninjai]

I'm watching this again as I'm getting a puppy and have an older. Bethany is so well experienced.

[GK-mvvu]

What a great video guys! I love how much detail Bethany gives she is so knowledgable.Thank you Nate👏

[mattlol]

I was so focused, so into it, but then the puppy started eating her pants and I was dying 😂😂😂

[denisejansevanvuuren]

What a beautiful older dog. Such a wonderful temperament . Great job to the owner !

[SantiagoTobonTV]

In my case is the opposite behavior. The puppy seems always over excited to see my older dog and my older dog gets overwhelmed pretty easily.

[jacksonfrazier]

This is how it's done! Thanks for the video. I see a lot of people (my parents for example) just nonchalantly letting the dogs and puppy interact right away and it always makes me very nervous.

[fishsquishguy]

Very informative, thank you!
Just brought home a 7 wk old female puppy and introducing her to my 14 yr old male and 12 yr old female. They’re lab mix brother and sister born in my house 2 yrs apart. Unfortunately it was the coldest day of the year yesterday, 5 deg F and the puppy has never been outdoors. Incredibly, she’s yet to have an accident in the house even though I could only bring her in my backyard for 2-3 min at a time due to the cold and her small body mass. Warmer today by 30 deg so should be better. I had to introduce in my house but in hindsight I should have brought them to my mothers dog-less house for a first meet but she’s in her 80s so that’s tough. Been doing ok but I’ve been limiting the interactions with gates so the two older can get relief. I did have a couple growls from the older dogs when the pup gets too rambunctious and I told them “no” but I’m going to try your way from now on. Actually the older male seems to be doing the best with her so far.
I have been limiting the interactions to one on one as I thought two on one might provoke bad behavior with the older two.
Anyway I’ll be checking out your vids and any suggestions and/or tips from you or anyone with a similar situation would be much appreciated. Thanks again!

[chizzynewbie]

I hope you never delete any of your videos cus I find this your channel helpful Nate now I'm about to get a GSD and a malnois dog, keep it up Nate

[lorib]

I have a 10 week old female GSD, trying to introduce to my 12 yo “only-child” female lab mix. Lab mix is being territorial and grumpy. How do I handle this? We are keeping food/water/toys separate for now. Just brought puppy home Sat morn, 5/25, it’s now 5/27 evening. We followed your initial introductory video and that went OK, there wasn’t any major aggression issues from older lab mix. Thank you!

[mbibi]

Thank you so much for that information, cause I have a puppy mini pincher and she looks more to my German shepherd.
Now I know what to do.

[Stephiems]

Thank you for this video. I am bringing my new puppy in a couple of weeks time and was unsure how to introduce her to my existing dog.

[Localfork]

I'm very happy they did thus with a german shepherd, I will be introducing my new poodle to my w year old gsd and he generally likes humans but I don't know how he'd react to a new dog this video really helped

[jonnamaestro]

Yay! Perfect video for whats about to happen in my life this year!

[samanthamansi]

This is useful for my mums puppy thanks

[Rodrigo-ojpd]

Mas videos sobre el mismo tema por favor. Gracias teacher

[bangbed]

Such an amazing video ! By the way, I have a 5 years old male Baschet-Lab mix who's rarely socialize with dogs. I walk with him once a week, but in my neighbourhood no one lets their dog out on a walk, so it makes it even harder to socialize him with other dogs. There is no dog park near me either, so yeah, it's really hard to find another dog to socialize him with. Yesterday, someone dumped a female Lab (i reckon she's like 2 or 3 weeks old) near my house, so I adopted her. As I expected, I find it so hard for these two to bond. In the first meeting, my Baschet-Lab growled a lot and chased the younger one, pretty much showing a form of aggression. So I had to stop the meeting. This early morning I was really shocked that these two dogs were in the same room, the old ones still growling though. But after all, they seemed to be in a playful mode, I guess? But, yeah, everything changed when my sister intervened by touching my old Baschet-Lab. He started to show aggression and chased the young one and even snapped a bite on her. I was panicked so I had to separate these two. Now they are both in a separated room and I don't know how to teach them to get along with each other. Do you guys have any tip on how I should teach them to get along with? That's seriously gonna help. Thank you :D

[Zeno_OKB]

This video helped me tons!!! Thank you so much!