A little background info: I have three dogs. Tucker is 10, I got him when he was a puppy. Prim, female boxer who is 8 and I got her at 10 weeks. Prim and tucker have grown up together and have always gotten along great. Tucker is a small dog (Chiweenie) and was getting older and didn’t like to play with Prim as much. So after a lot of bugging and convincing my husband, we got another female boxer last year. Roka is a year old and we have had her since she was 6 weeks old. When we first got her, everyone got along great.
A few months go by and we made a cross country move. After we moved, things changed, the 8 year old boxer started becoming very aggressive towards the male Chiweenie who is 10. (All my dogs are fixed btw, they all got fixed at 6 months) She would attack him for no reason. It wasn’t over bone or food or anything. We assumed it was a changing of who is the dominant one in the house because of the puppy. We started to separate the Chiweenie from the boxers. We got a dog behavior therapist/trainer to come in and help. Nothing improved with Prims aggression towards Tucker.
Months go by, the boxers get along great. Prim clearly let the puppy know she was and is the boss. There was only ever slight aggression issues if there was a bone or food involved, but it was only sometimes, and Roka always listened to Prim and backed down. As of recently things have seemed to get a little more tense. Prim gets cranky towards Roka much easier and she can be much more snippy. That all turned into aggression and fighting. (prim going after Roka the same way she started going after tucker). It’s only been two times I’ve had to pull prim off of roka, but My fear is it’s only going to get worse. I’m terrified to even let them out together because I’m still traumatized from the times that Prim has attacked Tucker.
I’m not the person who gets a puppy and gets rid of it because it’s too energetic. I don’t get rid of my dogs because I’m moving or because I don’t have time for them. That’s not the type of dog owner I am. I baby my dogs, they are spoiled, they are apart of my family. But I am also trying to think about what is fair for the dogs. I want them to live a happy and safe life. My heart is broken.
I don’t want to get rid of any of my dogs...but I also know things can’t go on if Prims aggression just gets worse. 😥😩
Any advice? Tips? What would you do? Find someone to adopt the puppy, surrender one of them to a boxer rescue? Put the aggressive dog down? My heart is torn. 💔 help.
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