[sadesmom]

Originally Posted by gemy

I am so very sorry for the loss of your Golden. How old is Sadie about one year? And your new Golden puppy is how old?

It is difficult to give advice without seeing the dogs interact, I do have a comment, and that is to be (which I am sure that you are), very present when you allow the two to interact. And do be ready to intervene.

I am a large dog owner (with a BRT puppy who is currently 9 months old and about 75lbs or so), and my concern is for your Yorkie not getting injured. Quite frankly I correct my Yorkies aggression to my large dogs, every single time that it is warranted. Why? Because he needs to know he can't act that way out and about with strange large dogs. Unfortunately and I am only supposing this, the size differential is so huge my biggies felt no need to discipline him when he was a puppy and acting out.

Even now they don't discipline him. But one swipe of a large paw could break a leg or a back

I am just wondering what is the spray bottle to be used for? And when and how?

I also do not walk by myself a large and a small dog together.

I know this might seem like a bit of an overkill, but all you need is one bad experience and hopefully you learn a lesson with no-one getting injured.


I do not allow my Yorkie out free in our backyard with our puppy BRT. She has a bit of a prey drive, and the chase is quite frankly dangerous to Razzle our Yorkie.

BAll games etc, are done either one on one, or the two Blackies together. It is only in swimming will all three be out together in the water, and that is only if hubby is with me.

I am sorry for the ramble afield as it were. Dog aggression is not an easy behaviour to deal with.

If your Yorkie is afaird of the trainer, I do wonder why? Has Sadie been well socialized to strange ppl and dogs? If yes, then doubly I would wonder why Sadie is afaird of the trainer.

Sadie turned 5 last June and our new puppy is 3 months. They are never ever alone together and we do a really good job at constantly monitoring them together. Things have gotten better since the trainer came. The puppy Rory is actually afraid of her when she gets in that mode. She will lay down and doesn't try to attack her or anything bad towards Sadie so that's a positive. Rory wants to play with her but listens to Sadie's boundaries. Sadie has started to go up to her and sniff her bum and then walk away. It's great to see.

The spray bottle is just a distraction tool I believe- we initially were to use these bags similar to a bag of pennies and growl in order to correct bad behaviour. Not only do we look stupid (we still growl like idiots) but I think the bags scare her. We are supposed to use the spray bottle to spray Sadie if she is attacking Rory. So what we would do is this: Sadie is getting her "I'm gonna attack you" body language. We growl and clap our hands to distract her. Now she walks away from the puppy without attacking. Before and sometimes now she will attack- never a serious fight but noisy for sure. That is when we are supposed to spray Sadie anywhere but the head/face to distract her. That way Sadie stops attacking the puppy "on her own" rather than us pulling them apart which makes it worse. It works for sure and now with less attacks she is so much better. We have another golden and Sadie is great with her. I know they will be ok eventually.

My boyfriend and I are usually dealing with it together. We go to the park and we are both there and they all play and run. We also went to the beach and they were almost playing together! Sadie isn't a player, so I think it's a step in the right direction.

Sorry this is so long!