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Originally Posted by makemepretty I'm so sorry to hear this. I know most people would disagree but I've never thought that little dogs and big dogs mix. Big dogs don't know their own strength and little dogs don't realize they won't win. It only takes one wrong paw to do damage(I've seen many small animals with only one eye due to a larger dog). The larger dog doesn't mean to hurt the smaller one but just using it's paw to push it away or snapping as a warning can do some serious damage. Unfortunately it sounds like you have to do something about the two little ones to end this problem(since you mention getting rid of Penny isn't an option). I really don't know how you stop them from being jealous of each other, contacting a dog trainer would be your best bet. |
Thats just it, Penny does know her own strength and has never hurt anyone or my other dogs. You'd be amazed that Penny and chloe will play tug-o-war together and penny will barely be pulling becasue she knows Chloe is like 40 times smaller and weaker than her. If you knew Penny and Chloe you would completely agree that big dogs and little dogs can be great together. They actually play together, snuggle together and Penny watches out for chloe, and is especially protective of her when they are outside. Ive had Penny for almost 5 years now and she has always been as gentle as can be. If Penny didnt know her own strength Im pretty sure we would have already had a real problem by now. My problem is that my little dogs have jealousy issues when it comes to me and start fights with penny. And this just started within the past few months. And becasue of this my big dog gets less attention. My big dog has more or less always "stood her ground" with these fights. She has never actually bit the little dogs, jumped on them, scratched them or anything, all she does is growl and I have to pretty much pry the little ones off
her. And my little dogs will try to be mean to her. So Penny is completely fine and not the problem at all. The issue is how to keep the little ones from being so jealous. Its weird because Chloe & Tink are not jealous of each other
. Im a little worried I somehow caused this behaviour since its just recently developed and Im the only one they fight over so Im trying to figure out how to undo what Ive done.