ElleSkywalker
As excited as Kitty about to be a bridesmaid
Be nice please people, I know it's not ideal but it's the only option, there is no one else to take her and I'd never dream of putting her in a shelter or similar.
My mum's elderly dog (15 year old JRTx) is coming to live with us. She has arthritis and general old dog grumpiness. She's also very quiet and polite but does stick up for herself.
She's coming to live with us permanently, she has stayed before when younger and does visit but finds all my dogs somewhat overwhelming and tends to hide. She has known all my dogs as we have got them except one who is a relatively new to us lab (7 years) who she has met a couple of times. Our other dogs are another elderly lab (13) a Saluki (10) and a jrt (8) All our dogs respect the elderly lab and leave her alone to do her old dog thing.
Mum's dog, T, is crate trained although hasn't used one in a while so we are thinking of setting it up for her with a blanket over under the kitchen table so she can retreat and hide in there if needed, which she's done over the years when my brothers children have visited my mum so she uses it as a safe space. I was also thinking of setting up various other little beds in the kitchen as my dogs tend to hang around the rest of the house more so she can have somewhere to hide.
We will take her to our vets for a meds review and general check over too and was thinking of getting a pheromone collar if they still sell them?
The poor thing is used to being an only dog, or one of two when my mum stays with my brother but as mentioned she has stayed with us for extended periods in her youth to, albeit not at present house but she has visited.
Can anyone think of anything else we can do to help? We do have stair gates and could shut her in the kitchen but I don't want her to be unable to interact if she wants to.
She's arriving tomorrow so not an awful lot of time to get things sorted
My mum's elderly dog (15 year old JRTx) is coming to live with us. She has arthritis and general old dog grumpiness. She's also very quiet and polite but does stick up for herself.
She's coming to live with us permanently, she has stayed before when younger and does visit but finds all my dogs somewhat overwhelming and tends to hide. She has known all my dogs as we have got them except one who is a relatively new to us lab (7 years) who she has met a couple of times. Our other dogs are another elderly lab (13) a Saluki (10) and a jrt (8) All our dogs respect the elderly lab and leave her alone to do her old dog thing.
Mum's dog, T, is crate trained although hasn't used one in a while so we are thinking of setting it up for her with a blanket over under the kitchen table so she can retreat and hide in there if needed, which she's done over the years when my brothers children have visited my mum so she uses it as a safe space. I was also thinking of setting up various other little beds in the kitchen as my dogs tend to hang around the rest of the house more so she can have somewhere to hide.
We will take her to our vets for a meds review and general check over too and was thinking of getting a pheromone collar if they still sell them?
The poor thing is used to being an only dog, or one of two when my mum stays with my brother but as mentioned she has stayed with us for extended periods in her youth to, albeit not at present house but she has visited.
Can anyone think of anything else we can do to help? We do have stair gates and could shut her in the kitchen but I don't want her to be unable to interact if she wants to.
She's arriving tomorrow so not an awful lot of time to get things sorted
I am hoping as she's been living with an increasingly grumpy person, that living somewhere a bit more lively might do her some good at some point when she settles 
. Well that is my story and I’m sticking to it. 
