Well, I am not a training or behavior expert so please take what I say
with a grain of salt. When we got our second bichon through adoption, we
first introduced our rescued bichon to the other dog. They got along very
well - no growling or high voltage excitement. Our rescue is somewhere
between 4 and 6 years old and the adoption dog was 9 months at the time
(she was 'miss excitement' but not high voltage). So my inclination is to
suggest you introduce the new adoptee to the others, one at a time. If
there is no or only low level territoriality, then it might be safe to let
the adoptee run free with the others. I would think that crating the
adoptee would hamper your efforts to rehab the dog, if that is what you
will be doing. So let the dogs decide, because in the end the other dogs
will help the adoptee more than you will ever be able to do. These are my
thoughts, from a non-expert. Keep the list informed - you are doing
important work.

In article outpets.com,
"fourpups" wrote:

Thanks so much for the advice. You have given me some helpful avenues to
follow. Others have told me to crate our new dog away from my other dogs
for 7 days and then introduce him into the group. What are your thoughts
on this?

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John Ferman
Minneapolis, MN