Jeanie, we can agree that one dog is trying to dominate the other. In my experience, dogs are going to establish who in their dog pack is higher ranking no matter how much we humans interfere. It's going to happen. It's more subtle in some relationships than in others, but it's there.
What I disagree with is how this affects the dogs' relationship with their humans. I don't believe that dogs are really so daft as to think that humans are dogs. We aren't part of their pack. The fact that one dog is higher ranking in the pack than another doesn't mean that we rank lower in their eyes.
We're probably going to have to "agree to disagree" on this one which is fine. It would be a boring board if we all thought alike!
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