Welcome home Ellie!

Well, this blog post has been severely procrastinated on. As I mentioned a couple times, my roommate Michele decided to adopt a dog and Ellie has been living with us full time since March 22nd, almost 2 weeks now.
This made both Michele and I a little nervous, since Ellie and Daisy did not seem like the closest friends the first time they met. Even at Ellie's foster mom's house, Daisy was being very stubborn about exerting her dominance over Ellie. She would hump her and that would cause Ellie to growl and snarl which just led to a bit of a problem. So needless to say, we were a little worried about how they would do living together and rather or not we would have to keep them separate for nearly 2 months... Added on top of this, when we picked Ellie up she had just had her spay so she had stitches and her cone of shame.

But we had spoken with a trainer at Stray Rescue who had given us advice on how to correct any of Daisy's bad behavior. So we did the normal long walks with the pups to make them feel comfortable and kept them both leashed while in the apartment to make it easier to break up any fights that may occur. 

But after just a couple hours, it seemed as if the girls were bffs. And before too long they were playing tug of war with each other and cuddling.

There is no longer any room for the humans on the couch

But, I'd say that they now feel pretty comfortable together

Tug of war is a frequent occurrence now, although it often ends up with both dogs running into the walls.

And then this is what told me that they were really and truly sisters. They were spooning on the couch!!! How completely precious is this?? It was even cuter in person because they were both sleeping, but my flash woke Daisy up.

Having two dogs in a relatively small apartment has been a bit of an adjustment, but it works out pretty well. Ellie is in the process of being crate trained, so she has been staying in Michele's room while we are away, but we are getting closer to her being able to stay in her crate! She jumps quite a bit, but is very relaxed on walks. 

We still have an occasional fight, usually over them getting too aggressive with a toy or fighting over food. But, Ellie is small and easy to pull up and away from Daisy if need be. Plus Daisy calms down pretty quickly once they are separated. So overall it is going well! YAY for Daisy learning how to share her space.