Elderly OES, Puppy, and Tile floors
Chelsea has slipped and fell on the tile floor (while she was letting Matisse know she had enough) and I DO NOT want that to happen again. I was standing right there when it had happened and was horrified to hear the thud noise. Any suggestions? I'm trying to train him with "OFF" and "DOWN" but he is a puppy afterall. If I keep them seperated too much is that causing more problems in the future.... Even though Chelsea is my mother's dog, she is family here. I do not want to have to keep her confined in other rooms of my house. |
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| I understand your concern with Chelsea, especially on tiled floors, which I have too. What I can only say is that, usually when the older dog has had enough, they let the younger one know and in most cases, the youngster will back down. Its hard not to interfere and stop what you can see happening. Can you supervise in any way when they are on the tiled surface ? |
| As long as Chelsea is teaching puppy Matisse manners, I would let her continue. You might want to throw some rubber-backed rugs down as a short term solution for slippery tile.
(Still love the name Matisse!  )
Laurie |
Oh, it sounds like my house! Chelsea should eventually teach Matisse albeit probably a few bites and maybe some drops of blood  Foz has become very smart and he is the one who now coaxes Annie into the living room onto the carpet. He knows that if Annie slips on the tile and gets pissed, he's in trouble!
Your guys will sort it out  |
| I'm going to try some temporary rugs in the area they tend to wind up in. She has bad legs and I think her legs just give out. Chelsea will actually allow him to bite on her and jump on her until the very end....she's too nice of a dog.
This happens all the while someone is supervising them. It happened with me standing right there when I was telling them their play was getting too rough. |
| The rugs or runners are a good idea for chelsea for traction. It will help her a lot and do let her discipline matisse. Eventually she will get fed up with the puppy antics and strike back to put him in his place.
I had the same problem when brie was a baby puppy, had a 13 year old with a arthritic back end that would go down easily. The temporary mats on the tiles helped her and she eventually put the pupper in her place then as she got fed up with the jumping up and nipping her and puppy wanting to play. She could not be bothered with a youngster, so a few goes at the pup for the pup to learn, in the end she would only have to give this gruff noise to her and the other one and they would stop. 
Another thing I did just for a very short time, as I was worried that the old girl would injure herself with the splaying of the back legs and going down with a thud, was sometimes I actually put a lead on the pup, took her over to the old girl and when she went silly corrected her with the lead and a command word "OFF", did that a few minutes each day when they were in the same room and when she calmed down let her off the lead with the oldie then. Then, I only had to use the word "OFF" and she listened, if she did not on to the lead again for a few minutes and go through the routine again. Occassionally too a time out for puppy to give the older one a break from her. Gotta love those energised puppers.  A bit of maturity with matisse and of course positive training now will make for a wonderful companion for chelsea to have.
Hard with the oldies and a baby pup coming into the home, there was a 8 year and 12 year gap when our next baby entered the house, all ended up well the older two were very motherly with the younger one in the end, but at first it was what the HECK is this 
Oh and occassionally leaving the oldies inside and taking the energised bunny outside for a mad romp on her own to burn off the energy and give the other two a break so when she came in she was tired and happy to lay quietly with the others.
ZOOOM energy to burn.  |
| Make sure that you never let the hair between the pads get long.
If I messed up and didn't stay on top of it, Mandy would pay the price of slick feet. |
| Yes!! we do make sure her paws are nice and trim....she's very badly arthritic in the legs, and I just wanted to make sure I'm not letting him really harm her. I'm definitely going to get some more rugs. I put one down tonight....
Thank you for the information |
| Thy rugs will help as I did it with Obe as a puppy. He was having trouble getting up. I did not have tile floors they were wood but, it made a huge difference. I had rugs everywhere. His little legs would just slip right out from under him. I know you were talking about older dogs but just thought I would offer what helped me. |
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