Straydog UPDATE posted SUNDAY 5/18/03 at ~9:47 p.m. CT

Pat's Daily Dog Log

SUNDAY MAY 18 2003

Puppy Willie moves in with the girls, Amy and Annie

     Little Willie has been with us for only a few days, and he has become very lonely in the small puppy kennel all by himself, so this morning we moved Willie in with other new arrivals, Amy and Annie. Had Willie been a street stray, he would have been in quarantine for the usual two weeks, but this little mangy pup had been kept by a young couple in their house for several weeks while they were trying to find him a good home. Since they had also treated Willie with dips, his mange was no longer contagious.

There's Willie in his tiny temporary puppy kennel.

 

Pat opens the little gate, and Willie comes out to Pat, who takes Willie over to Amy and Annie's kennel.

 

At first Willie tries to show that since he's the male, he should be "top dog" in this arrangement. But as you can see from the expressions on the faces of the two bigger sisters, they're not going to tolerate this little tyke's aggressiveness much longer. And they didn't.

 

Amy and Annie begin to take the more aggressive stance with Willie (who's in the middle).

 

 

 

Soon after this photo was taken, the three pups got along fine for the rest of the day, and they are staying together tonight.

Willie starts out as the "tough guy" but the girls quickly put him in his place!

     As soon as I put Willie in with Amy and Annie, the little tyke tried to play "top dog" by charging at and standing over the girls to let them know that he considered himself the boss, but Amy and Annie would have nothing of this new-comer telling them what to do in their kennel, and they let the little fellow know right away that no one was going to be picking on anyone and he'd just better play nice! That straightened out the problem right away, and the three of them have been playing together with no problems ever since.