They are brilliant at the moment theres been no funny disagrements since i posted this typical

Im going to phone a few people on monday as kids back to school and ive got deliveries coming all day.


I should say theres no problem at all getting anything off zeb even if hes half eating it he will drop on command, theres been NO aggression at all with him to people. Hes always been growly around food/treats with other dogs and when every young the cat we managed to stop this by using positive reinforcement e.t.c

The main is dropped food which i think we can solve for the moment by crating at meal times until ive picked up anything on the floor and the toilet roll tubes But this has only started since we got bear as hes an odd dog that if given a chance will kill a loo roll i think zeb thinks hes missing out on it lol

its very interesting to read your posts and in does make sense actually

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That's good to hear.
It's also good that the resource guarding is not directed at humans
Is it more with Bear that he has "arguments" about toys, food and random objects?
He doesn't actually sound too bad, although it's probably just worth supervising them around toys/food etc...

Keep us updated

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Sorry for hijacking this thread but I feel I could do with some help. Here is my story.

As you may know we have a westie who is 3 and have just brought another westie into the family. The puppy is 12 weeks old tomorrow. We have now had her about 5 weeks and everything was fine until last weekend. Molly the 3 year old attacked Konnie over a bit of food. They then carried on playing well together but there have been a few more instances of Molly starting to fight. Each time it is food related really. They are both fed in the kitchen but at opposite ends. On Friday night though Konnie, the puppy, tried to get into Molly's food whilst Molly was eating and Molly quite rightly told her off but in a fighting way which is not good. My hubby had to pull Molly off and Konnie was still attached. Last night I gave them both a new toy each which had been given to them in the afternoon by my friend and again a fight broke out so the toys are now away. At lunchtime today Konnie was eating her lunch and Molly who doesn't eat at lunchtime decided to have another go at her. They have played together since and I have also taken them both out for a walk together and they are now having a sleep. 90% of the time they are great together but I don't understand what I am doing wrong. I have emailed by dog trainer who does the puppy class for Konnie and is also a behaviourist but I won't hear from her until tomorrow and just wondered if anyone else has had this problem and what they did.

I hope this all makes sense and sorry for it being such a long post.

Yep its only with bear no agruments today either
Hes never ever shown any hint of aggression to people hes a softy with us and human strangers
meals times have always been seperate, but now instead of having them treated together and now crating/removing from the room at meal times has made it abit easier. Toys have been moved so they cant help themselves aswell now which i think is a massive help.
thank you for you help, Im going to give them a ring and see if they can suggest anything else.


Aly good luck aswell, Ive been very lucky although they have these "fights" they arent really fights its more of a strong telling off as such as zeb does stop when told, im not sure i could get zeb off bear if he really want to go as zebs around 34-36kg and very strong. x

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Just thought i'd update

Hardly any fighting happening now when they do they stop straight away, we put them both in a both position untill they have calmed down its working

They are working abit more for there treats aswell now so abit more mental stimulation during the day which has helped loads i think so instead of trying to eat each other they get to eat yummy treats

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Hi

Thanks for posting to update, it is always interesting to know what works and what doesn't to improve things.

Glad it is getting easier.

Kate

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