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My wife and I have 3 adult pekingese dogs, 2 females (munchkin +-7 years old) and (Noxy +- 6 years old), had them both from pups, during September - November last year (we slowly introduced them over a few short meetings and a few sleep overs), we adopted a +-8 year old male Peke – Troy as his owners were relocating to a townhouse that did not allow pets. In December we had both females spayed, the male was already neutered by the previous owner.
We have a few problems with all of them. Firstly the 6 year old Noxy, we assume has a bit of separation anxiety at night as she wakes up and cries, mainly after midnight and before we get up. She doesn’t always do it but lately its been getting worse. The 2 females sleep in the lounge at night and are not allowed in the bedrooms to sleep.
Next is the biggest issue, when we first adopted the male (Troy), they were generally fine with each other, had a few instances of fighting but not bad. Troy has a fear of rain/thunder and lighting and fireworks, the 2 girls sleep through it and its never been an issue for them. But because the prev owners babied him, on old years eve, the fireworks were really bad and he kept scratching the kitchen cupboard doors to try get in to hide and then our older female munchkin (she thinks she is the alpha as we have had her the longest) kept attacking him, so we allowed him to sleep in the bedroom just so we could get some sleep, this was the start, we tried leaving him to sleep with them again on a normal night but he kept trying to get to the bedroom, annoying Munchkin who then attacked him and he now always sleeps in the bedroom as Munchkin always tries to attack him and he is petrified of her now. Even when we are all together she tries to attack him which I feel is jealousy as he sleeps with us and she is not allowed to. We do try give them all equal attention, they share toys fine with no fighting over toys, they have a big yard to run around, we don’t keep them locked inside during the day when we not home, they have free reign of the yard and the lounge/kitchen area, we keep the bedrooms off limits to all 3 during the day, we had cameras set up to monitor them and they don’t fight when we not around. We don’t do any training with them as they are very jealous of each other and end up fighting. The male has gotten very attached to me and does growl at the other 2 if they come close to me and smell him when im petting him, they don’t seem jealous of me petting him though.
I do need to add that we used to live with my wifes parents at one stage which was when we got munchkin and Munchkin saw her dad as the alpha male which could also be an issue with me trying to reprimand her now. The other 2 listen to me fine as we got them both after we moved into our own place.
Next issue is munchkin again, when she was a puppy she used to eat her dry chunks very slowly and the way my father in law got her to eat faster was basically to tease her with his foot near her bowl, she used to attack his foot and then try eat her food as quick as possible. So now she still eats slow however we don’t force her to eat quickly unless we are in a hurry to leave for work but if anyone tries to take her bowl once she is finished she will try bite them, whether the food is finished or not. We do try distract her by walking to the kitchen and opening the fridge or cupboard and then the other person quickly picks up the empty bowl but she has caught on to this so it doesn’t always work.
So my main problems are how to get the youngest to sleep right through the night, how to get the older female and the male to get along a bit better and how to get the older female to not attack for an empty bowl.
Some corrective action we plan to do is, walk them more often, feed them all 3 outside where there is more space and distractions. Give them all 3 each individual attention (we have always tried to do this but then the jealousy kicks in and causes fighting) We will try introduce him back to sleeping with the girls in the lounge, just not sure how easy this will be. Anything else I can try or should consider?
Thanks everyone.
My wife and I have 3 adult pekingese dogs, 2 females (munchkin +-7 years old) and (Noxy +- 6 years old), had them both from pups, during September - November last year (we slowly introduced them over a few short meetings and a few sleep overs), we adopted a +-8 year old male Peke – Troy as his owners were relocating to a townhouse that did not allow pets. In December we had both females spayed, the male was already neutered by the previous owner.
We have a few problems with all of them. Firstly the 6 year old Noxy, we assume has a bit of separation anxiety at night as she wakes up and cries, mainly after midnight and before we get up. She doesn’t always do it but lately its been getting worse. The 2 females sleep in the lounge at night and are not allowed in the bedrooms to sleep.
Next is the biggest issue, when we first adopted the male (Troy), they were generally fine with each other, had a few instances of fighting but not bad. Troy has a fear of rain/thunder and lighting and fireworks, the 2 girls sleep through it and its never been an issue for them. But because the prev owners babied him, on old years eve, the fireworks were really bad and he kept scratching the kitchen cupboard doors to try get in to hide and then our older female munchkin (she thinks she is the alpha as we have had her the longest) kept attacking him, so we allowed him to sleep in the bedroom just so we could get some sleep, this was the start, we tried leaving him to sleep with them again on a normal night but he kept trying to get to the bedroom, annoying Munchkin who then attacked him and he now always sleeps in the bedroom as Munchkin always tries to attack him and he is petrified of her now. Even when we are all together she tries to attack him which I feel is jealousy as he sleeps with us and she is not allowed to. We do try give them all equal attention, they share toys fine with no fighting over toys, they have a big yard to run around, we don’t keep them locked inside during the day when we not home, they have free reign of the yard and the lounge/kitchen area, we keep the bedrooms off limits to all 3 during the day, we had cameras set up to monitor them and they don’t fight when we not around. We don’t do any training with them as they are very jealous of each other and end up fighting. The male has gotten very attached to me and does growl at the other 2 if they come close to me and smell him when im petting him, they don’t seem jealous of me petting him though.
I do need to add that we used to live with my wifes parents at one stage which was when we got munchkin and Munchkin saw her dad as the alpha male which could also be an issue with me trying to reprimand her now. The other 2 listen to me fine as we got them both after we moved into our own place.
Next issue is munchkin again, when she was a puppy she used to eat her dry chunks very slowly and the way my father in law got her to eat faster was basically to tease her with his foot near her bowl, she used to attack his foot and then try eat her food as quick as possible. So now she still eats slow however we don’t force her to eat quickly unless we are in a hurry to leave for work but if anyone tries to take her bowl once she is finished she will try bite them, whether the food is finished or not. We do try distract her by walking to the kitchen and opening the fridge or cupboard and then the other person quickly picks up the empty bowl but she has caught on to this so it doesn’t always work.
So my main problems are how to get the youngest to sleep right through the night, how to get the older female and the male to get along a bit better and how to get the older female to not attack for an empty bowl.
Some corrective action we plan to do is, walk them more often, feed them all 3 outside where there is more space and distractions. Give them all 3 each individual attention (we have always tried to do this but then the jealousy kicks in and causes fighting) We will try introduce him back to sleeping with the girls in the lounge, just not sure how easy this will be. Anything else I can try or should consider?
Thanks everyone.