e28jay

Hi All,

My first post here. I'll introduce myself and my babies in the new member section. But here is my first question.

This is fairly new behavior for our male dog. I believe it started when we moved from Cali to Oregon. I have a male and a female dobie, both are fixed and both about 4 yrs old. They've been walked together since they were puppies. Since we've moved to our new state our male will show aggression to our female when another dog is walking by. Never towards the dog that is walking by, only to our female dog. She is more of the dominant one so of course she doesn't stand for that and growls and snarls right back him. This causes a pretty ugly scene being new to the neighborhood but they stop as soon as I yell NO and yank on the leashes. Both dogs are super friendly to pets and humans though! Both dogs have been socialized since they were pups. And this does not happen every time another dog is present only sometimes. Yesterday we had a friendly chat with our new next door neighbor. I had our dogs on the leashes and she had her dog on the leash. No problems at all! So it's the strangest thing. Any thoughts on why he would do this? Or how to correct it? Obviously I can start walking them one at a time... but I want to know why he would act like this and can it be corrected.