My dog is a toy fox terrier(6-7 yo). And our other dog is a pitt bull/boxer mixed(2yo). Anyways, the mixed dog we've had since he was around 5 weeks so our tft was always around him as a puppy. As he got older he became an outside dog and our small dog she'll stay inside all the time. But whenever we bring in our mixed dog our tft goes crazy.
She get's really ugly, she raises her mouth and will show teeth if the other dog gets near her or us. If we reach down to play with the mixed dog she feels like she needs to protect and will bite the other dog in the butt, barely gets him it's on fur. But the other dog never does anything, he'll walk up and just want to lick her all over her face. But she just snaps and we tell her no and she knows it's bad but will continue to do it especially if the big dog raises his paws and gets them near her face. But the pitt never means any harm. I don't know what I should do? My parents and I are scared that one day our pitt could really hurt her badly.
2007-01-02 19:05:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Dogs
Oh also want to add that my dog never acted this way before when we had another big dog. We used to have a Golden Retriever she was a lot older though not a puppy and died while we had our tft. But our tft never showed aggressiveness toward her and she was with her while she was a puppy.
2007-01-02 19:08:18 · update #1
They're male and female, fixed, same house. The girl is just vicious even when I try to play with both at the same time, she'll try to steal his bone even though she'll have one already. It's just really weird, she would play fine with him when he was a puppy and loved it, she would play rough though. And now she won't go near him, she'll jump up in our lamps once she hears the door open and his feet hitting the tile and she sits near us and just growls kind of like a back off and if he gets his face anywhere closer she lunges forward and will somtimes jumps off the chair and then back on.
I was just wondering if there could be a class that we could socialize them together, maybe one to get the bigger dog less rowdy. He does sometimes hurt her with his paws and tail, maybe his size could have caused some of it.
2007-01-02 19:18:33 · update #2
OK, you have a Fox Terrier, acting in a normal, fiesty Terrier manner, snarling and biting your Pit/Boxer mix...and you and your parents are worried about the mixed breed hurting the Terrier???
Aren't you concerned about the safety of the male? The non-aggressive, tolerant boy?
What do you do to the female when she acts so badly? Are you scolding her? Isolating her? Letting her know that she is bad? Or is everyone so concerned that the larger dog might retaliate that they ignore the bad behavior of the female?
Your boy raising his paws is his act of self-defense. Don't put him in this position of having to defend himself. YOU do your job and defend him!
He's doing his best to appease the 'monster' Terrier by licking her face and showing submission.
Don't let her continue after you tell her 'no'. Physically stop her! Put HER outside for a while. Don't let her continue to torment and harass the boy.
You also need to look into getting professional help in the form of a good trainer for your dog.
Good luck, and please stop the female from attacking that boy. If you don't, you might be right in fearing that one day he might react badly. But if you stop the female, he won't be in that position, will he?
2007-01-02 19:36:22 · answer #1 · answered by Lori R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what's caused most of it is the little dog is spoiled and the bigger dog needs more exercise such as walking at least 2 times a day if you want him to not be so rowdy. it would do you well to enroll them both in a training class. i would start with the little dog and then the big one. how do they do outside together? why did the big dog have to go outside?
2007-01-02 19:31:32 · answer #2 · answered by cagney 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are they both males? If so, that's why they're fighting. Animals of same sex fight way more than opposite sex dogs do. If it's a male and female, they probably just want the others' attention. Make sure they're both fixed(if they're a guy and a gurl). if they live in the same house, they eant your attention and probably aren't gving them enough. Try playing with them both. Sparately or together in the same room.
2007-01-02 19:13:04 · answer #3 · answered by lexidoodles 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
grab a pillow from the mattress and lie down on the floor - it truly is in easy terms quarter-hour. What you may handle an aggressive canines is an grownup Abyssinian male cat! Ours replaced into prevalent regionally as "the advise, pit bull terror cat" - he'd lie in await any canines walking up the line then bounce out and chase all of them the way up the line!
2016-10-19 09:49:06 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the only thing i can say about this is to keep the two dogs away or busy as far as possible.
2007-01-02 19:10:22 · answer #5 · answered by sexy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋