Your post reminds me of my Lola! I have two yorkies, one male and a female. My little female is 3.5 lbs and my male is about 9 lbs. My daughter is a fourth year med student and had to stay with us for 6 weeks with her two yorkies, both males - 5 lbs and 8 lbs. Anyway, when my daughter came for a short visit at Thanksgiving we introduced the 4 of them slowly and things went fine the first couple of days. Then out of the blue, my female attacked her male and latched on to his little ear and would not let go. It was horrible. After that, we could not even walk through the room with the male without my female "raging" at him, so we kept them separated. At Christmas we reintroduced them and it was a little better, she attacked him the last day they were here and it was pretty bad...I was worried because I knew she was coming back soon for a 6 week visit and I would have them during the day by myself! Lola has had a liver shunt repair and I thought maybe this had something to do with her liver enzymes being too high so I asked about it on my liver board. They said no, but it was suggested to me that when she started to growl or get that "look in her eye" that I pick her up, make eye contact with her and pull her chinny hairs and firmly tell her no, until she stopped. I tried this every time when my daughter returned with her dog. Lola seemed to tense up whenever he came close, so I had a little warning. This did seem to work. My daughter is leaving on Saturday and we've only had a couple of incidents of Lola "raging" since. Keep in mind though, Lola is the smallest at only 3.5 lbs and has tiny little teeth. If it had been the other way around, we would not have been able to let it go because someone would have gotten hurt. I know how hard this is...good luck. |