I’ve always had two dogs. my last two dogs before the ones I have now were about the same age as we adopted BB just a little younger than our other dog Penny. They lived together for about 10 years. Penny died of cancer at 15 and I like you thought getting a puppy would be hard on BB. BB was 13 years old. We noticed she started slowing way down on the walks but then noticed if she saw another dog walking in front of us, she would pick up pace. I think she was lonely and missed having another dog around. We decided to adopt Mary Jane. I think Maryjane got another year out of our BB just laid back most of the time and watched her do dumb puppy stuff. BB lived another year. Maryjane also learned to chill from old BB too which both of us as seniors appreciated that. I’ve always treated my current dog as pack leader over the new dog. I think it’s best to know we love them most even if that sounds weird. You can’t give all the attention to the new puppy and still need to make your old dog feel special and number one. Now our Maryjane is pack leader to Arlo our giant dumb puppy.
Now maybe that wouldn’t work as well for a dog that has been an “only dog”. I’ve never had just one dog so forget everything I said if that’s the case.
