Im going to try to explain this another way.
Say you have two children a 7 year old and a 2 year old. The 7 year old is fa good respectful child, you have told him thatg he cannot hit is little brother so he respects that. However the 2 year old goes into the 7 yer olds room and takes his toys and breaks them.. And he hits the older brother and throws toys at him. The 7 year old looks to you to do something about it.
Do you
1. just ignore it and allow the 2 year old to continue,
2. tell the 2 year old to quit and expect the problem to be solved,
3. do you give one of them away,
4. or do you monitor the 2 year olds behavior and continue to correct him until he is old enough to understand that he has to respect his older brother?
The two year old will test you day after day and then may quit for a while, but will continue to test you off and on untill he gets old enough to understand the consequences.
Well this is the situuation that you have on your hands, and in my opinion, you are lucky that the older dog hasn't seriously injured the younger one. |