/lit/ - Literature

My attorney’s dog and my my gardener’s dog were rescued from the same dog fighting ring, and they are very sweet and loving but both very clingy with their owners and afraid of anyone outside their circle. My two hired friends (who know each other from their yoga class) want to introduce the dogs to each other so that they may become more comfortable with each other and other animals. Does anyone here know anything about dogs and how to Introduce them to each other best? I don’t think these guys would snap at each other or anything but it’s more likely they would just try to run away or go somewhere else.
I don’t want to bother with /an/, I need an academic and literature educated take for this.