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I have this male and two female dogs (they are all spayed/neutered). They are all from a shelter and this shelter-dogs-adoption of mine started a year ago with one of those females (Laika) when she was a pup. A year later I adopted another two dogs (female-Sissi; male-Marlow, who is from the same shelter as Laika)- I have them for 4 months.
There was almost no problem (just some minor ones) when I adopted Laika. When I adopted those two it was a little bit worse... They already were adult (both are about 3 years old) and since they gone through so many obstacles, they were literally scared to death of everything. Luckily they are getting better now. Well mostly...
It was about two weeks later when Marlow started to "protect the pack" from other dogs. It started with males only (he even bit two dogs because they were off leash and were bothering those two females who were close to Marlow and I couldn't avoid it since both those strange dogs followed us on every step) and recently, he started to be like this even towards female dogs. When he sees a dog he starts to growl, bark and tug on the leash and then he tries to get free from the collar... Otherwise, he's really sweet and gentle dog that is grateful for anything...!
I really don't know what to do. I tried a lot of common things to resolve this but no luck(avoiding dogs, ignoring them, not tugging him back on the leash, be calm; when this haven't helped I tried to confront him which helped a bit but when he saw a dog again he immediately forgot the confrontation). I know that he was growing up on streets and when he got into the shelter, he was in the kennel with males only for almost two years and this is "normal" behavior for him, but I want to solve this as fast as possible, so please, give me your advice...! :help:
There was almost no problem (just some minor ones) when I adopted Laika. When I adopted those two it was a little bit worse... They already were adult (both are about 3 years old) and since they gone through so many obstacles, they were literally scared to death of everything. Luckily they are getting better now. Well mostly...
It was about two weeks later when Marlow started to "protect the pack" from other dogs. It started with males only (he even bit two dogs because they were off leash and were bothering those two females who were close to Marlow and I couldn't avoid it since both those strange dogs followed us on every step) and recently, he started to be like this even towards female dogs. When he sees a dog he starts to growl, bark and tug on the leash and then he tries to get free from the collar... Otherwise, he's really sweet and gentle dog that is grateful for anything...!
I really don't know what to do. I tried a lot of common things to resolve this but no luck(avoiding dogs, ignoring them, not tugging him back on the leash, be calm; when this haven't helped I tried to confront him which helped a bit but when he saw a dog again he immediately forgot the confrontation). I know that he was growing up on streets and when he got into the shelter, he was in the kennel with males only for almost two years and this is "normal" behavior for him, but I want to solve this as fast as possible, so please, give me your advice...! :help: