Yeah, I have read a few articles about this myself. It seems really counterintuitive from a human perspective, yet it makes sense when you look at it from a pack viewpoint. From what I can gather, it seems that coddling the submissive dog will only further piss off the alpha dog to where he feels like he really has to put the lower one in his place more often. It sucks.
Maybe if you dunk Jack in peanut butter, Eddie would associate him with awesomeness.
I wish I could be more helpful, but really the peanut butter thing took me a while to come up with, and now I'm spent |