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So I know this has gone on too long and it's completely my fault that it's gotten to this point. tl;dr: My older dog Elly (5yo) is aggressive around human food (not her food), and attacked our new puppy Eiko. How do we stop it? We've had Elly (Elehayym - Mix between Husky, German Shepard and Chowchow we think) for 5 years, got her as a puppy. She's generally great around other dogs and most humans (~3 y/o girls specifically, but that's a 'trauma' of hers). She does get time with other dogs, primarily my mom's Pit Bull. However, she has this aggression around food. Our food specifically. When we make/bring home food she will growl at anyone not me or my wife, including the kids. She never went beyond that as I'm normally there and she wouldn't do that in front of me, but around other I'm worried now. We've started putting her outside (enclosed back yard) when food is here. However, today the wife was unloading groceries, and I was doing dishes. Our new puppy Eiko (We're not sure of the mix, it's Pit Bull (Mom was pretty close to full-blooded) and potentially Boxer, Lab and maybe something else) was just being a puppy and sniffing things (not getting into anything really yet), and got to the potatoes, and Elly attacked. It wasn't one where she bit and held, she kept biting the puppy. She got a cut under her eye, and on her lip. The pup is fine and is in her cage where Elly isn't allowed. Elly is outside. What can we do to curb this aggression? Sometimes it seems to be worse than others, but it's ALWAYS around "human" food, IE: not food for them. She will let other dogs eat out of her food bowl with no problems, and she doesn't even get our food. The groceries were the breaking point.
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Oct 27, 2024 17:32
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