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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The old dog might get a new lease on life with a young companion... or might find the intrusion unpleasant. You cannot predict how it will go on that front.

Most puppies are adopted at around 8-12 weeks old, whether it's from breeders or from rescues who take in pregnant dogs. So the puppy could be 5-6 months of age when they need to get into daycare. That's too young for medium and large breeds (and indeed, smaller breeds too!) to be sterilized. At that age they need socialization. So unless you get an older puppy, this won't work optimally for the pup.

- human who fosters pregnant dogs and puppies for a rescue.[/quote]

If we do this at all, we'll do it after the old dog dies.  There is no way that he would want to share his humans.  Plus, he's pretty deaf and blind and arthritic  and sleeps a lot so staying away from a puppy would be hard.

He doesn't stay alone all day, he hangs out with a relative who works from home.  But I don't feel like I can ask the relative to take on a puppy, so we'd need a different plan.  
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