Our jack russel was just diagnosed with diabetes and the vet said that they put off a different scent and that may have something to do with it. They have fought numerous times today already and the dacshund will lock his jaw on the ear of the jack russel and my husband has to pry him off.
It has nothing to do with any different scent that jack russell may be admitting. It has to do with being alpha. Dogs are pack animals and have an alpha drive. Usually the drive to be alpha is different in most dogs and they can settle out who will be alpha and who will be betta. Sometimes both dogs have equal drive and cannot settle it out. This is very rare. My generalized guess, based on 50 years of training experience, is that your dogs are not socialized, nor are they trained to any reliability nor do they respect you as alpha. This all leads to the dogs not understanding their place in a pack. You at the top, then the dogs. These dogs need training, and you need education about dogs and dog behavior. I see this all the time, and the owners always blame it on the dogs, when they have actually (through ignorance) set the stage for the problem. Obedience classes, which are really for you but the dog also attends.
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April 11th, 2009 at 8:44 am
It has nothing to do with any different scent that jack russell may be admitting. It has to do with being alpha. Dogs are pack animals and have an alpha drive. Usually the drive to be alpha is different in most dogs and they can settle out who will be alpha and who will be betta. Sometimes both dogs have equal drive and cannot settle it out. This is very rare. My generalized guess, based on 50 years of training experience, is that your dogs are not socialized, nor are they trained to any reliability nor do they respect you as alpha. This all leads to the dogs not understanding their place in a pack. You at the top, then the dogs. These dogs need training, and you need education about dogs and dog behavior. I see this all the time, and the owners always blame it on the dogs, when they have actually (through ignorance) set the stage for the problem. Obedience classes, which are really for you but the dog also attends.
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50 years of owning, raising, and training dogs.