I haven't posted about this on here as I haven't been on much lately and it's been quite an upsetting situation in our house with the dogs.
Ollie has always been a bit possessive of things and people, and has a problem with resource guarding. We've tried to limit the episodes by not allowing him to have chews and toys unless he is in his crate and so on. But inevitably situations arise that we can't predict.
He has a particular problem with our other cocker Toby...he sometimes attacks him for no apparent reason. Toby put up with this at first and shrank off, but now he understandably retaliates and we have dogfights in our house
Ollie is insanely jealous of Toby and Toby can't even come over for a hug sometimes without Ollie snarling.
Ollie then began having a go at our setter Millie now and then which obviously upset her. He would begin by trying to make her play and when she wouldn't respond, he would get too rough until he ended up really hurting her.
Twice my 4 yr old was nipped when he was in the way and Ollie suddenly went for one of the other dogs. This was pretty scary so we are now having to keep Ollie completely seperate from the children at all times while the other dogs are around unless we are actually holding either Ollie or the children.
Today he has attacked our cavalier Trixie. She found a piece of rawhide bone behind the sofa which we didn't know was there...the first we knew about it was when we heard her screeching and crying in pain and found Ollie attacking her. She is a nervous dog and she was very upset afterwards, although not seriously hurt.
He also spends a lot of his time chasing and trying to eat the cats....he was fine with cats when he arrived here, so why he has started doing this is beyond us
I've got some details of behaviourists and we are in contact with the rescue Ollie came from, but I was just wondering if anyone else on here had gone through anything similar with dogs and if they found a solution?
Ollie is incidentally brilliant with people and does not guard things from us or the children.