Meet my new dog, Oppo

"As Du Volant" (skuhnphoto)
07/16/2018 at 14:21 • Filed to: doglopnik

Got a new dog this weekend! He’s a 3 year old English coonhound that we adopted from a shelter in Ohio. We’ve named him Curzon Dax.

He’s settling in very nicely. Super duper friendly and is getting along well with our other coonhound.

We were expecting him to be completely untrained but it seems like someone actually did spend some time working with him. He walks nicely on the leash, already is crate trained, and seems to understand that he’s expected to go to the bathroom when taken outside, though we’re still working on some peeing-in-the-house issues.

And just like our other coonhound, he loves to bask in the heat.

DISCUSSION (15)

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 14:37

That’s a great looking dog! The peeing in the house issues could also be a territory marking thing between the two of them. When we added the German Shepherd to the house to go with our lab/pitbull mix that we’d already had for a couple of years at that point, the marking game happened occasionally for about a year before they came to a full doggie understanding of each other.

lone_liberal > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 14:39

Congratulations! Curzon Dax? Does he have parasites?

Chuckles > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 14:44

Congrats on the new addition to the family! Please feel free to include him in this week’s Fur Face Friday post. It goes up around noon every Friday.

TorqueToYield > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 15:04

Love me some hound dogs.

Laziest dogs on the plane t....until they see a rabbit.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 15:04

Have you named a previous doggo Tobin? Will successive doggos be named Jadzia and Ezri?

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 15:29

+1 for the Star Trek reference! :D

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > lone_liberal
07/16/2018 at 15:32

And did he used to be a woman?

As Du Volant > lone_liberal
07/16/2018 at 15:32

I sure hope not, but we’re visiting the vet in a few days to make sure!

As Du Volant > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
07/16/2018 at 15:34

How’d it resolve? He only marked when we first brought him in the house, and then I kept him crated and/or outside while training, and had him attached to me with a leash when in the house.

He’s taking to it well though, we had a pee accident this morning that was NOT marking, just couldn’t hold it. No marking behavior since Saturday evening and I’ve been letting him free in the house one room at a time for longer and longer periods since then.

If it’s territory marking I want to nip it in the bud because I don’t want these two getting territorial and bickering with each other.

As Du Volant > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
07/16/2018 at 15:35

Previous dogs were named from a certain Britcom; we felt like it was time for a change.

Though my girlfriend says if we’d been doing the Star Trek names five years ago when we got the other dog she would’ve been named Dr. Kate Pulaski.

Textured Soy Protein > Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious
07/16/2018 at 15:57

Ezri sucks though.

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 17:15

Pulaski? I thought she was universally hated by the fandom. XD

Love your pic, btw. COUP FOURRE!

Shour, Aloof and Obnoxious > Textured Soy Protein
07/16/2018 at 17:15

I prefer to think that Jadzia simply set an unreasonably high bar.

ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com > As Du Volant
07/16/2018 at 17:59

In our case, it took time. Lots of time. After about a year (and new carpet in the parts of the house that had it) the marking ceased. It hasn’t happened at all in the new house, and I think that was aided by the fact that it wasn’t either dogs house to begin with. They both discovered the new house together. and they were completely a pack at the time.

It was critical to clean up anything as soon as you discovered it (not that we didn’t anyway, but it happened a few times when we weren’t home and that was always a bigger problem ) , because once the seal has been broken and someone has gone in the house, the other dog isn’t going to let that stand without marking on top of, or right next to, the other’s spot. We also had to keep closed off the one room that it happened in the vast majority of the time (it was the spare room in the house that wasn’t used much by anyone, and that may have been the doggie cue to try and claim it).

Despite, having had dogs most of our lives, we’d never had more than one dog at the same time before. It was also complicated in that we ended with two female dogs, both of whom are really alpha females. Doing it again, I would never do two dogs of the same sex. With opposite sex dogs, there’s a still a pecking order to hammer out, but they’re never directly completing for the exact same spot in the pack.

We also had problems with them fighting, and we learned that dog fights aren’t good (especially between two big dogs). It took about six months for them to really come to a doggie understanding of one another, and about a year to really form a pack. They’re completely bonded to one another now, but it wasn’t easy getting there. While we broke up fights when they happened, I have no doubt that at some point they fought when we weren’t home and the GSD finally got the lab/pitbull mix to submit.

I’d take t he fact that both your dogs are already laying together that closely as a good sign It took months before my two would’ve willingly lai d that close to one another.

Kinja'd!!!

As Du Volant > ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
07/17/2018 at 08:53

I feel your pain. We did the two female dogs thing once before too, and it took them at least a year to work it out. Multiple fights, though no marking.

These two are male and female, and the marking seems to have been the new boy just being unfamiliar with his new home and probably a bit freaked out. We’ve been slowly giving him more and more access to the house and haven’t had any incidents in almost 3 days now.