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My 5 year old dog has attacked my 13 year old dog 4 times in the past year. What do I do?

  • I have a 6 year old dog who has black on her tongue. We rescued her from a summer camp when she was 5 months old. It's hard to take her for walks because she will yank on the leash without warning and lunge for birds, cats, or other dogs. She yelps and yanks on the leash, and appears to be fixated on whatever it is she's seeing and it's very hard to break that fixation. We have taken her to dog training school and she was doing a little bit better, but she would still have episodes where she would fixate on something and lunge without warning. To give her credit, she was doing better but the trainer unexpectedly passed and we are yet to find another trainer. She has tendencies to break through fences and bark aggressively towards anyone, even if we are driving with her in the car down the street. All this was somewhat manageable but now she has become aggressive towards our 13 year old dog. She has attacked her four times in the past year, all times drawing blood. The last two attacks occurred within a week of each other, the second time causing the 13 year old dog to have to have $700 worth of surgery and the 6 year old dog always goes for the same area to attack: on the 13 year olds left ear area. The attacks have all been early in the morning, and the 6 year old isn't allowed to sleep in the bedroom anymore. We are thinking of hiring another trainer but are worried about how these attacks occur in the early hours of the morning with the 6 year old attacking the 13 year old in the same way and same area yet more vicious each time. Is her problem with the 13 year old personally or will she always be this way? What do I do? We also have another 3 year old dog. I love all of them with all of my heart.

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    Sound like you have an aggressive dog on your hand. Don't give up as all dogs are trainable. Please hire a trainer and you (the owner) have to work with the trainer to keep up with the training. Even after she is trained, I would try to keep those two dogs apart. Only under supervision should they be allowed in the same room. You need to keep her away from children too because you can never trust her because the risk is too high.

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I don't know that I have the answer you want. Most dogs are trainable, but not all people are capable of training them. Also there are dogs that are genetically disposed to be aggressive, some toward dogs, some towards people. Or it might be a medical issue like thyroid; you might want to check that first. Certainly try another trainer. And try a crate. But if this doesn't work, you might have to ask yourself the very hard question of are you up to this? You may have a time bomb on your hands. I once had a dog that was great for the first two years of its life, and then got real aggressive, and when he bit a person we had to make the very hard decision that we couldn't keep him, and there was no one would take him to keep him alive. He was a mixed breed from a back yard breeder. Others from that litter were also problems. There was no reason for it that I could think of but genetics. Someone once wrote something to the effect that there are no bag dogs, only bad owners. I disagree. There is such a thing as a bad dog, and it can be heartbreaking to own one.

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