Dog Jealousy

Laurakat81

We have a zoo. 6 pets. 3 dogs and 3 cats. I love every bit of it. One of our dogs is a foster dog (although I'll give him a forever home with us if I had to). And one of our cats actually belongs to my cousin.

I have a question about dog aggression/ jealousy though. Our oldest dog is a 9 yo pit mix. She's super sweet and no issue. Our foster dog, Tucker, is a 9 month old terrior mix. He's 29lbs. Then we have my pride and joy, Colston, our 1 year old chocolate lab. He's about 75 lbs. Colston and Tucker are the best of friends 99% of the time. They play and sleep together. But recently (just in the last 2 weeks) Colston has gotten extremely jealous any time I'm loving on Tucker. He often won't let Tucker near me or he actually attacks!!! Now so far it all seems to just be warnings. He's not biting down and no blood is drawn bit it scares the sh!t out of Tucker and me.

If I'm eating Colston starts getting in these zones where he is just seeing red and wants to lash out at any dog (or cat) he thinks is too close to me. Since none of this happens to my husband I'm assuming I'm the issue.

For the record, we now don't let Colston anywhere near us while eating as a precaution. We are trying to be safe and keep our zoo safe even though I dont really think he's got it in him to seriously hurt any of them but I'm not taking my chances either.

So what am I doing wrong and how do I fix it? Im thinking maybe he thinks he owns me and therefore he is guarding what is his....

He listens very well to commands and it's easy to see in his eyes when he's feeling threatened and we can correct it but I'm not always paying 100% of my attention to him. I'd like to work on it so it's just a non-issue! Any advice or tips? TIA!

sakelp

I'm at work and honestly didn't read your post very thoroughly, but i think that NILF would benefit your situation... it helped with jealousy between our dogs.

google it, try it, let me know  

Laurakat81

Will do! Thanks!

shannonsmiles

I just googled NILF. The article was perfect for my dog. Both of my dogs were adopted but not at the same time. My first dog we have no problems with but my second dog is aggressive towards other dogs and men at the beginning. She would bark and growl at men when we first got her. She has since stopped. She was badly abused by her past family and so I think that her barking towards men had to do with that. But now that she's settled in (2 years later) I believe she's trying to be the alpha dog when around other dogs. I'm going to try the techniques in this article and hopefully it will work. Fingers crossed seeing as in 2 months we're moving back to Canada and living with my cousin who has 2 dog of his own. I hope she won't get us evicted.