Same Words for Two Dogs: Beds and Bowls: Reward-Based Training Introducing a Second Dog, Sharing Space Keeping the Peace

Every situation in this book names its source - a named study, printed on the page, not a branded method and not a clip somebody shared.The second dog was going to keep the first one company. Instead there are two bowls to referee, a doorway nobody can share and a game that stops sounding like a game. In one survey of owners, 8 percent reported aggression between the dogs of their own household, and what set it off was ordinary: food, doorways, the doorbell, your hands. Two dogs do not work it out between themselves. They work something out, and you live in it.Forty-five situations, each on one spread: the meeting on neutral ground, the first two weeks behind a gate, two bowls in two rooms, the chew that starts everything, the hallway they cannot share, the car, the sofa at night, the fence they run together, play that stops before it turns into something else, and the first real fight - what to do in the next hour and who to call after.What is on every spread Why this happens, with the research behind it. The one word from the nine this situation uses. Not this: the usual answers that make it worse. Do this: the steps, in the order you do them. How you know it is working, in things you can see and count. Call a pro: where the line is, and who to call when you reach it.The households that go well are dull by design: two feeding rooms, two beds out of sight of each other, a gate across the hallway, one dog through the door at a time, and the toys off the floor until you bring them out. So the first question on every page is what you can separate, shut, double or clear away, and only then what you can ask either dog for.What it does not do. It does not promise the two of them will become friends: some pairs go that far on their own and some never do. It names no medicine and no dose - what to give, how much and how often are decisions for the person who has examined your dog - and a dog who stops eating, hides, marks indoors or starts fighting in a house where he never used to goes to a veterinarian first. No brand of gate, crate, bed or feeder is named, and no breed.Ninth book of the series. Each one stands alone and they share the same nine words. If your newcomer is a puppy, book one is the one to keep beside this one; if the dog you already have is old, book eight covers what a young housemate costs him.Educational material. Not veterinary advice.