# Oh crap. We have a new puppy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 20, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382 "2008-02-20T16:01:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/21 "2008-02-21T00:54:50Z")
Cute dog. When I was a teen my family got a golden retriever puppy when we already had a cat. They eventually got along. Fortunately for the dog, the cat had been declawed\* so the constant face-batting when he got too close got the message across without causing injury. \*: Not my decision. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/22 "2008-02-21T00:57:58Z")
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn] All together now— AWWWW!!! [/QUOTE] Stole my post. Any idea what breed(s)? ---
**Author:** ![Elenfair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cc9497/32.png) [@Elenfair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elenfair)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/23 "2008-02-21T01:05:38Z")
Seriously dead of the cute. He looks very young. I highly recommend crate-training, for your sanity and your housebreaking needs 🙂 (Well, the dog’s, not yours.) (Then again…) ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/24 "2008-02-21T02:08:29Z")
WazzalookatdaPUPPYwifdawinklyeyebrows…izzum yous a good dog? Yes you izzim! Snorgle. Snorgle again, just because. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/25 "2008-02-21T15:18:19Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] Stole my post. Any idea what breed(s)? [/QUOTE] It’s hard to tell when they’re all round and wrinkly, but he looks labtacular to me. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/26 "2008-02-21T15:47:20Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] We went to a dog show over the weekend :smack: Now I’m trying to keep from acquiring a puppy very similar to [this](http://www.castlebarelkhounds.com/puppy111.jpg). [/QUOTE] Akita? ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/27 "2008-02-21T15:53:38Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] Akita? [/QUOTE] Norsk Elghund, second only to floppy-eared mutts as my favorite dogs in the world. Zoidberg’s mooshed up little face could change my mind, however. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/28 "2008-02-21T16:12:55Z")
Love him, love him You say there were others? Hmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/29 "2008-02-21T16:57:16Z")
[QUOTE=Oslo Ostragoth] Any idea what breed(s)? [/QUOTE] Not a clue. We met mamma doggie (who was in the dumpster with the puppies), and she looks _nothing_ like the puppies. If you didn’t know she was the mother, you wouldn’t guess at all. No idea, of course, who daddy is… Come to think of it, **Haze** , “Boshin-Tang” would be a good doggie name, too! ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/30 "2008-02-21T17:56:28Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] Cute dog. When I was a teen my family got a golden retriever puppy when we already had a cat. They eventually got along. Fortunately for the dog, the cat had been declawed\* so the constant face-batting when he got too close got the message across without causing injury. \*: Not my decision. [/QUOTE] I’ve seen housecats who withhold their claws when schooling the dog, so scratches aren’t a given. They can happen, but they’re not inevitable. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/31 "2008-02-21T19:47:00Z")
True. The clawless batting is usually a warning given, then if the dog still doesn’t back down/behave itself, the cat draws a knife. ---
**Author:** ![BlueKangaroo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@BlueKangaroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueKangaroo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/32 "2008-02-21T20:09:42Z")
Looks like a shar-pei baby to me, in those photos. Don’t forget that the litter could have had multiple fathers. Did all of the pups look like Zoidberg, or did they look like all sorts of different dogs? Cute pup, and the lady holding him is very pretty too. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/33 "2008-02-21T20:16:50Z")
38 years of cats and 32 years of dogs (that can’t be right, that’d mean I’m _old_), it’s been very rare that one of the cats has caused a yelp from a dog. Maybe once or twice when they’re puppies and still frisky (aka “stupid”) then they learn what the little growly toy will do if pushed. Our cranky cat has cowed 3 medium size dogs in her life, and I can’t remember her ever actually clawing one. 2 of them were adults when she showed up, so it’s not just training the puppy. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382/34 "2008-02-21T21:42:45Z")
Oh, he’s sooo cute! Can you mail me one of his littermates? 🙂 The cats will probably teach him that he’s the bottom of the pack. If they’re like the cat we had when my late dog was a puppy, they might draw a little blood - Lightning used to rake Princess with her claws if the puppy wandered by the chair she was in - but puppy will soon learn to keep away from them. Of course, once he gets bigger than them, there might be a pack shuffle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-crap-we-have-a-new-puppy/438382.md?page=1)