Dominance Problem

[squee]

Hi

I currently have two dogs, one is 4 years old husky and one is 1.5 years samoyed. Both male. When we got the samoyed a few months ago, he never display any dominance/aggressive behavior at all. If any, it's the husky that keep trying to dominate the samoyed sometimes (i.e putting his mouth on his, etc...but he does lick the samoyed's mouth as well, so displaying a dom/sub behavior).

Recently, though my samoyed been biting my husky...I

t always happen when my sister patting him and the husky approached. I think he's going for the dominance and starting to develop a major posessiveness

Anyone got similar problem?

How do you guys handle it?

Thanks,

Squee

[W Sibs]

I think you need to get a behaviourist to come out and have a look on what's going on.

It's hard help when we can't really seeing the body language and the reason why he is acting that way.

BTW, jump into the JS/Samoyed thread

[Bjelkier]

I said the same thing as CW EW in the Samoyed thread.

[bedazzledx2]

Neither of these dogs are puppies. I too think you need to engage someone who is able to correctly assess the behaviour. Kathy is very good http://www.kathysdogtraining.com.au/

[Aziah]

Are they both desexed?

[persephone]

These are definitley not puppies, and you would be wise to contact THIS behaviourist to get advice/strategies . Two males like this could one day do serious damage to each other