I'll try to keep this short!
Our lab X was a rescue and took a while to settle (I think the rehoming traumatised him). Two years in he's the sweetest dog imaginable apart from this one issue which we're really struggling to solve.
He's fine with other dogs outside, dogs that he meets on walks, dogs that he knows, but when he's in the house with another dog (our house or any other one) he's really difficult - snappy and guardy.
The problem seems to be us (me and DH) - last month we took him to a friend's house and he was his normal self with her dog, then as an experiment me and DH left for the day and he was completely fine. So it's resource guarding us (?) that's causing the problem.
We're invited to the same friend's for new year and I really need some strategies so we don't ruin it for everyone. She has an open-plan downstairs and a dog-hating cat who lives upstairs, so putting him into a bedroom isn't really an option - he has to be able to share space with the other dog peacefully with us in the house!
Any advice?
(and yes, we'll have a couple of trial runs and if it really doesn't work we won't go, but I want to go!)
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Reacting to other dogs inside - any advice?
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LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett · 23/10/2018 10:42
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