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Originally Posted by Buster Brown  Sorry but in my case I would crate the youngster and not your older dog. The young pup is the one being inconsiderate of the pack dynamic and is trying to dominate the older one. She is trying to make herself the pack leader and she should be the one to be corrected and not your older dog. It is not up tp the youngster to determine pack heirarchy but that's my opinion. Let me see if I can get help from more knowledgeable members. |
I am NOT a trainer, but I agree with this....this is what I would do. Crate the youngster. Another word of caution, gleened from experience.....Do not ever leave your senior out with the group, alone, unsupervised. If the youngster takes a mind to dominate her, she will jump her and then when she is down, ALL of them will go at her and they will kill her.
I was told this same thing so I never left any of mine alone whith my senior matriarch. But I did let them run around on the patio area, while I sat in my lawn chair....they were out of reach by 15-20 feet. One day, one of the "challengers" jumped 14 year old Aija, and got her down....in the few seconds it took for my mind to make my feet move in her direction, she had 5 females on her.....I got to her and she was sooooooo terrified, she had a seizure......she was in shock and we rushed to the vet.....Amazingly, she had only one small bite wound, where one had latched onto her back leg and was trying to pull her across the patio....Aija suffered no major injuries but I thought I was going to have to go to the ER after we got her home....I was devastated that I had gotten lax and allowed that to happen to my devoted little old lady.....but STUPID is making the same mistake twice....I learned a huge lesson with that event! I never leave my dogs out with the seniors alone.....if they find one that is weak or sick or frail, the rest will jump on that one....pack mentality....and they will do their best to kill her.