Then I have my 9 year old Labrador Retriever Trevor who is massive but has bad hips %26amp; can't keep up with my hyper little baby Ziggy .
Well, last night Ziggy got into his first real dog fight with the neighbors dog who is ever bigger than Trevor, he's hugeee, about twice the size of Ziggy; but they've been friends %26amp; play together everyday for about a month now. I don't know why they fought but I heard them both whining %26amp; they were tearing each other up.
I could see them from my back porch but to get to them would have taken a while, so I ran as fast as I could to seperate them but before I got there Ziggy had the neighbors dog pinned down with his legs like boxers do and was ripping his ear off. So the huge dog ran home limping and since then Ziggy has been bullying Trevor to the extreme.
He's already always picked at Trevor but I don't ever let him hurt him, Trevor is to old %26amp; slow to keep up with Ziggy %26amp; now since Ziggy beat the biggest of all 3 of them he's being SO mean to Trevor, biting his legs %26amp; hurting him %26amp; I can't get him to stop.
Am I going to have a mean dog or are these just stages he will outgrow because he's still only 9 months old...?My puppy is such a bully to my older dog.?
so dogs usually think of your family as a pack, ziggy will look to you as the alpha dog (hopefully) and should know not to mess with you. ziggy has had this fight, won it, and now considers himself higher up the pecking order in your pack now. this means he thinks its ok to bully trev. you have to step in now and try stop him doing this, which will probably be very hard to do as rottys are notorious for this kind of thing. i know it sounds cruel but giving him a hiding when he bites your older dog may be the best thing for him, if you can get him to associate bulling trevor with pain or discomfort then he will hopefully come right.
boxer rotty xs can be pretty mean dogs though, if you cant sort this behaviour early then yes, you might just have a mean dog, and if he is ripping ears off at 9 months...keep him away from kids
ps ^^^ i am fully against neutering dogs, please dont do it. you CAN train agressiveness out of dogs. would you like the chop chop if you got into fights at school?My puppy is such a bully to my older dog.?
no he won't outgrow anything
dogs have to be trained to behave
you should have had him in training as a babyMy puppy is such a bully to my older dog.?
First of all, how did Ziggy get to the other dog? Do you allow your dogs to run free? If so, THAT must stop.
If Ziggy is not neutered, get him neutered. Ziggy also needs much more exercise. This will help with him picking on your senior dog.
Also, what kind of training have you done with Ziggy? Does he know the basics? Sit/down/stay? If not, you are way past starting this.
Right now you need to get Ziggy OFF your older dog. I had a senior Lab with very bad arthritis and I also have 7 other dogs. All sizes, breeds, mixes, ages.
NO dog in my house was allowed to bother Mako at any time. I see or hear it? I correct immediately.
I use a command *BACK OFF*. If they do not comply on the first command, I go TO the dog and deliver the proper compulsion.
So here is what you need to do:
~1) Do not let your dogs run free
~2) Get Ziggy neutered
~3) Implement a daily exercise routine that will exhaust his hyper activity
~4) Start training Ziggy
~5) When he goes after your Lab? YOU go after him. And don't make it a *no no*. It's a strong, assertive *BACK OFF* and then you grab his collar and REMOVE him from Trevor. And make the removal hard enough he will remember it.
First at eight months Ziggy is an adolescent not a puppy, which is a stage in a dog鈥檚 mental development when its individual character, temperament %26amp; dominant breed characteristics in his mix, will begin to shape the way he thinks %26amp; behaves.
It is common for an owner to think all is well between two dogs until it hits adolescence %26amp; the hitherto easy to manage dog to a greater or lesser extent begins to test its place in the canine rankings to see if can nab the top spot, ignore commands, rules %26amp; boundaries to see if its owner really means what they say %26amp; will enforce their will by demanding acceptable behavior on their terms, never the dogs.
1. Your dog should either be under your voice control or contained on your property so it cannot pick a fight with another dog or attempt to throw its weight around.
2. Ziggy is throwing his weight around with Trevor because he has learned that he can get away with it %26amp; you will not step in at the first sign on pushy behavior %26amp; correct Ziggy so he is clear that it is NOT rewarding behavior.
3. As the leader in the household, YOU decide what behavior is acceptable, when it can be exhibited %26amp; Trevor should be able to look to you to protect him from Ziggy.
4. Ziggy鈥檚 behavior is uncontrolled, %26amp; needs an effective consequence for biting/harassing a senior dysplatic dog. Put a pinch collar %26amp; long lead on the hellion, %26amp; when he shows an interest in errant behavior give a command to stop, %26amp; if he chooses to ignore you follow through immediately with a correction hard enough to teach the dog to think better of it. It the correction makes it unrewarding he will not repeat it.
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