We adopted our younger female dog when she was about 4 months old from a local shelter. She's a larger shepherd mix. Our male is a 2 year old heeler.
95% of the time, they get along wonderfully. As she's gotten older, though, I've noticed her have a little food aggression. Not towards humans, and only if I give one a treat and not the other or she's guarding a bone or something like that (so that was probably my fault). I feed them next to each other and it's no problem. I caught her being aggressive and biting him a few times, scolded her, and it hasn't been an issue.
Now she's started doing the same aggressive behavior over the furniture. She'll get on the furniture, I'll tell her to get down, and if my male is anywhere nearby she'll go for him almost like she's mad. I THINK it's a dominance thing? It's happened only a few times so far. I do think the heeler is contributing to the problem because whenever I tell her to get off the furniture he always seems to be right underneath her waiting. It's also only ever happened when I'm also right next to them, so it might be a jealousy/affection thing.
Every time it happens I scold her and make her leave the room. It's really only a second of aggression. Luckily, my male is not dominant at all and when she acts like a dick he just retreats and gives her a wide berth for a while. But I don't want her being a bully, and it's really startling because she'll snarl and bite (to the point that he's yelped a few times, but never drawn blood or seriously injured him).
Any advice?
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