Slow Hello: Bringing a New Dog or Cat Home Without Chaos

Most introductions between pets fail before the two animals ever actually meet, not because anyone did anything wrong, but because everyone in the house wanted it to be over quickly.If you're bringing a new dog or cat into a home that already has an animal in it, you've probably already found the standard advice: meet on neutral ground, let them sniff it out, give it a few days. That advice was wr...