Hi everyone first time posting here! So we have a 2 1/2 year old bullmastiff, Hercules. When we got Hercules as a puppy we already had a yorkie, Mia, in our house. The two dogs had their share of typical growing pains adjusting to each other with Hercules being a puppy and Mia adjusting to another dog in the house. However, they grew to love each other and all is well. Hercules plays with Mia and is very gentle with her. Our current situation brings me to my post now. A friend of my wifes' recently picked up a purebreed english bulldog and they already had a french bulldog in their home. Unfortunately the french bulldog has no taken any kind of liking to the new english bulldog puppy, his name is titan, and reached out to her friends about possibly finding a new loving home for the bulldog puppy. So my wife spoke to me about possibly taking the dog off their hands but we wanted to see how he was with our current pack situation in our home but that if it worked out I wouldn't be opposed to it. I said that we would need at least 2 days to gauge if things could work out or not.
So about 2 nights ago the english bulldog puppy was dropped off at our home right around dinner time for our dogs. Titan being the curious little puppy that he is walked over to hercules bowl while he was eating and Hercules didn't like that and snapped at Titan a little bit. We corrected them both and I wasn't too alarmed at that being Hercules is protective of his domain and a foreign dog was trying to sneak into his food. Over the past 2 days Hercules has seemed almost indifferent to Titan being around. Titan has laid in Hercules bed and I would have thought Hercules would try to nudge him out of his bed he's chosen to lay on the floor somewhat away from all of us. He'll occasionally come up to titan give him a sniff and wag his tail but that doesn't always mean he's in a good mood and accepting of Titan. Other times Hercules will be laying in his own bed and Titan will go up to him to try to play or assimilate and Hercules will growl at him or his jowel will quiver a little as if he's going to snap at him but not all the time. We immediately correct Hercules because we don't want him to think he can do that to every dog that comes around. We feel so bad for TItan and want him to be in a good loving home so we asked for a few more days to see if things got any better or worse to know for sure if this will work out or not. So given Hercules behavior and being so indifferent has anyone else encountered issues like these when introducing a foster dog to a resident dog that is a bullmastiff? Or have any tips or suggestions on how to get Hercules to be open to welcoming another puppy into the pack?
So about 2 nights ago the english bulldog puppy was dropped off at our home right around dinner time for our dogs. Titan being the curious little puppy that he is walked over to hercules bowl while he was eating and Hercules didn't like that and snapped at Titan a little bit. We corrected them both and I wasn't too alarmed at that being Hercules is protective of his domain and a foreign dog was trying to sneak into his food. Over the past 2 days Hercules has seemed almost indifferent to Titan being around. Titan has laid in Hercules bed and I would have thought Hercules would try to nudge him out of his bed he's chosen to lay on the floor somewhat away from all of us. He'll occasionally come up to titan give him a sniff and wag his tail but that doesn't always mean he's in a good mood and accepting of Titan. Other times Hercules will be laying in his own bed and Titan will go up to him to try to play or assimilate and Hercules will growl at him or his jowel will quiver a little as if he's going to snap at him but not all the time. We immediately correct Hercules because we don't want him to think he can do that to every dog that comes around. We feel so bad for TItan and want him to be in a good loving home so we asked for a few more days to see if things got any better or worse to know for sure if this will work out or not. So given Hercules behavior and being so indifferent has anyone else encountered issues like these when introducing a foster dog to a resident dog that is a bullmastiff? Or have any tips or suggestions on how to get Hercules to be open to welcoming another puppy into the pack?