Sis puppy vs My dog

[Mother2many]

Sister 1 yr mini aussie.
My dog 3 yr Norwegian Elkhound

Generally they get along great. 98% of the time. Puppy is constantly playing with my dog, nipping heels, biting ears, jumping on, seldom leaves her alone. (sometime I feel sorry for my dog, and when she comes lay by me, I do push puppy away, as my dog is wanting protection..lol)

My sister lives on a farm. Both dog will take turns with bones they find. Mine will chew it for a while. Once she walks away her dog will "steal" it, back and forth.

Her puppy is now starting to show aggression. Every now and then will attack my dog over bones. (once every 10x) She won't give up. Even when my dog walks away, will chase and fight her.

1st time, my sister jumped in and scooped her dog up, and almost got bit in the face. When she set her dog down, her dog went after mine again. So, she held her for a while. Inside, it's easy to split up. Now outside...

2nd time, my 12 yr old nephew ran to split them up. (I was yelling not to) His first instinct is to grab MY dog who did NOT start it...and lift her up by the collar. /and also tried to pick up his crazy puppy, while kicking my dog. I later told my sis, that pissed me off, as then my dogs stomach was free for her puppy to attack it...

3rd time, the dogs were many feet away, and when it started my sister ran to them... (dropped her beer even...lol)

Each time, it's MY dog's name that is yelled to stop...

Her reason is my dog listens, and of course my dog is bigger.

Sorry, but I want my dog to give her puppy a good nip...so she learns not to attack mine. Otherwise, she will think she can always attack my dog. When she gets older, it will only get worse.

Her new dog trainer says we have to stop it.

She lives on a farm!!! As IF we can run 1/2 mile to split up a fight that HER dog starts!

sigh..sigh..sigh..

(I'm heading into a class soon too)

Thoughts?

Remove all bones when dogs are together.

Removing bones is impossible. She lives on a farm. There are a million out there...

Then you have a problem!

(Ps) I live on a farm there are no bones lurking around here

Supervise your dogs. 'Farm' does not = land of milk and honey where poorly trained and monitored dogs won't fight over resources. Particularly a teenaged one.

You say your dogs were half mile away from you, your first answer is apathetic - don't want your dog attacked or involved in a fight? Don't let it get into a situation where fights occur until you both sort your dogs out. There's a trainer involved - follow the advice maybe? If there is an abundance of bones for some reason then the dogs stay close, you observe, you split them up before something happens - you might actually see what triggers the fighting and so what to do about it.

Sadly the only cure for your sister is the natural consequence of getting bitten - you better hope it's not your dog that bites the child. You may have shouted at him to stop but your sister clearly has problems engaging her brain if she is fine with the risk to her 12 year old & if she thinks wafting a very aroused dog around in the air by her face is helpful.

Both of your breeds need to be worked hard and occupied or they will be out of their boxes. There is a teenager too so if left to his own devices he probably will be obnoxious. There's no contextual info here but there's no magic bullet if they are real fights & not bluster - you don't want it to happen so you prevent it and follow the trainers advice or you leave them to scrap & pay for them to be patched up after they've ripped chunks out of each other.
It's probably easier to just play the blame game though.

I don't get it. Why are there lots of bones around in the first place? If they are from fallen stock, your sister has far bigger problems than a poorly-trained puppy. Farm does not normally mean there are bones lying around...

If they are bones from rabbits, etc in hedgerows and so on, it's simple: don't allow your dog to roam, keep it near you.

Well, my dog will WALK away from her dog, leave THE BONE, but her dog will come at mine... Mine only snaps back to defend herself. I'll call my dog, and she will come to me, and her dog will be attacking my dog. My dog is behaved.

At their cattle farm, they do end up with some dead calves/deer/coyotes/rabbits, etc.etc. Not much I can do about that. They have a "garbage" area, and they burn their own junk, and take others to recycling.

He has a meat shop, and cuts his own beef. Government inspected.

I was pleased she put her puppy in classes, but removed her, because the other puppies were "too big"... Sigh...