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Live to love and- love to eat!

Barked: Sat Mar 7, '09 8:25am PST


	Dixie Mae will be fine. The majority of dogs have food and possession aggression when little. The main thing is to work with her now and it sounds like you are doing fine. Some aggressive tendencies can be genetic and those are the difficult cases. Bloodhounds are not normally "bullies" or "killers" but they do get big enough to hurt each other or humans. It's fantastic that you have noticed the problem early on and are taking action instead of being in denial until the problems get too big to fix. Good job! Copper here. Miss Daisy, don't worry because I know what a sweet girl you are. You'll always be my best girl friend!

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Birds The Word

Barked: Sat Mar 7, '09 9:19am PST


	Excuse Me Copper.....Who's Your Best Girlfriend ??? Hee Hee Your Girl Birdie

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Live to love and- love to eat!

Barked: Sat Mar 7, '09 2:01pm PST


	Geesh,I'm losing it. I thought I posted this but it's not here. Miss Daisy was Mom's bluetick, LOL She didn't know she wrote that. You know you are my best girl MISS BIRDIE! HeeHee

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Super Sniffer

Barked: Sat Mar 7, '09 2:51pm PST


	I agree she is testing you. Both our dogs have done that. What is important is you start now. You are the alpha in the house. I can put my hand in either dogs bowl at any time and they will just look at me like what are you doing?? I'm trying to eat. If any growling occurs while eating the food is immediately taken away and they wait at least 15 minutes before they get it back. Yes it means I sit at the kitchen table with two bowls of food, and read a magazine and the dogs then look at me like mommmm we want our food. We promise we'll behave. Also try the classes to get her socializing with other dogs. Bear, our golden has been around other dogs from very early on. Guinness wasn't as much. If the classes don't work out do you have some friends who will meet you at a park with their dogs and go for walks together, she will learn socialization that way also. I had to teach Guinness all this at age 2, which was quite a challenge. Her whole life was disrupted and she didn't like it too well. On a side note, recently Guinness was in for annual shots at the vet. The two vets at the practice actually also wanted to discuss what we had done to prepare both dogs for the upcoming arrival of the baby. They had several suggestions for us which we had not already thought of. They have had too many instances of dogs having to find new homes for not adjusting to new babies and wanted to make sure we were doing everything we could to prevent that. We really like these vets and this is one of the reasons why. They look at the whole family not just the animals. Bronwyn

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Live to love and- love to eat!

Barked: Sun Mar 8, '09 4:47am PST


	Your vet had a great idea! Sometimes (most times) our dogs think they are our kids and don't appreciate a new kid coming along stealing all the attention. Most will adjust just fine but occasionally there will be jealousy that can become dangerous.

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CRAZY Daisy- :-)

My human is a- nutty head ...

Barked: Sun Mar 8, '09 6:50am PST


	I have not read through all the responses but you are the alpha and you giveth and you TAKETH period. Food possessiveness from other dogs is appropriate but growling at you is not acceptable. HAND FEED HER ... make that little girl WAIT. You feed her in YOUR time ... she will learn how big of a favor it is for her to live in YOUR house ... being fed by YOU. Period. Get her into puppy classes to socialize her. And start hand feeding that girl. Bloodhounds are big hardheaded knuckleheads. But ohhhh no no ... I work too hard to put food in their mouths lol. Daisy and Topaz have to be fed in separate rooms b/c one's too nosey about the other and they get snippy at each other. That's fine ... BUT its never appropriate towards humans - you MUST break that NOW or sadly she will become a liability and a law suit and worst ... she's going to hurt someone. Hand feed her ... I had to do it with Topaz ... she was abused and a brut and I worked it out early and 11 years later she KNOWS ... Momma doesn't play!

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CRAZY Daisy- :-)

My human is a- nutty head ...

Barked: Sun Mar 8, '09 6:51am PST


	I have not read through all the responses but you are the alpha and you giveth and you TAKETH period. Food possessiveness from other dogs is appropriate but growling at you is not acceptable. HAND FEED HER ... make that little girl WAIT. You feed her in YOUR time ... she will learn how big of a favor it is for her to live in YOUR house ... being fed by YOU. Period. Get her into puppy classes to socialize her. And start hand feeding that girl. Bloodhounds are big hardheaded knuckleheads. But ohhhh no no ... I work too hard to put food in their mouths lol. Daisy and Topaz have to be fed in separate rooms b/c one's too nosey about the other and they get snippy at each other. That's fine ... BUT its never appropriate towards humans - you MUST break that NOW or sadly she will become a liability and a law suit and worst ... she's going to hurt someone. Hand feed her ... I had to do it with Topaz ... she was abused and a brut and I worked it out early and 11 years later she KNOWS ... Momma doesn't play!

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Conan the- Destroyer

Barked: Mon Mar 9, '09 5:44am PST


	Right on CRAZY Daisy, hand feed, hand feed, hand feed! I never had such a problem with any of my hounds but I had a Siberian pup once that acted just like a wild baby wolf. It was like he'd never seen a person before in his life. My husband and I would take turns holding him until he'd give up trying to get away, then and only then would we talk to him and pet him, it wasn't easy, it took some time. If he got really out of hand, biting or snarling I would bite him on the snout or ear just like mother dogs do to their pups, not to draw blood or anything but enough to let him know I meant business. I never used my hands to reprimand any of my dogs because they have to trust my hands...they are for care giving and loving. When Kodi grew up we had such a trusting bond it was unbelievable...him to me and me to him. That trust that took so long to build was never broken. Jean, Charlie's mama

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Barked: Mon Mar 9, '09 2:57pm PST


	LOL Jean, that sounds like something I did with a foal I raised. My mare had a foal and at only two days old he thought it was great fun to run up to me, twirl around, and kick me in the knees. Two weeks went by and one day I saw him kick his mother that way. She very gently raised her back foot and kicked him right off his feet. I noticed that he didn't kick her again so the next time I went to the paddock I tied his mother up. I hid a rolled paper behind my back. When he ran up to me I grabbed him before he could kick, dragged him down across my lap, and paddled his butt. He never saw the paper. Anyway, that was the last time he kicked at me. It was the same thing with the little foal. I knew he would get big one day and if I was going to break him it was much easier if he weighed 100lbs than if he weighed 1000lbs.

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I'm a lazy dog

Barked: Sat Mar 14, '09 6:51pm PST


	I had a problem like that with my oldest bh what I did was I poured water on sadie my oldest,she was actually fighting with my younger one.

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