Help? (will my puppy learn to be aggressive from mother's dogs?)

[mandiah89]

Ok I feel like a complete newbie asking all these questions its like ive never owned a dog before, but new things keep cropping up and new questions arise *sighs*

Ok so now my question to you guys/gals is will my puppy become aggressive because of my mothers dogs? I have them separated now and have for about a week and a half, as my mothers dogs ( A 16 year old GSD mix and a 14 year old Collie shepherd mix) are super aggressive towards each other, food aggression and resource guarding being the main things. Im just worried in the time that my GSD puppy was around them that she may have picked that up? Is that possible? She is almost 11 weeks old and even though she was bit once by the 16 year old after she was biting his tail she has never shown signs of aggression and has always submitted to the other dogs (ears back, low stance, and even rolling onto her back and offering her belly to them).

I do take my puppy to see her brother, and my next door neighbors dog and I have a few playdates set up with 5 different dogs of all different ages/sex/breeds/size and plan to have a play date with these dogs a few times a week... So should I be worrying that she got their "bad habits"? Or do you think she is going to be fine now that we have them separated and with her being so young and having new better socialization that she will be fine?

[bryant88]

At this young of an age I don't think you have anything to worry about yet. But you need to take the negativity away from her. Meaning your mothers dogs. As long as she is being socialized with other dogs on a regular basis I think you will be fine. A lot of older dogs do not like puppies because they are to hyper and older dogs just want nothing to do with a puppy biting their tail. I wouldn't worry about what she has already been exposed to but work on not putting her in that situation. In the long run with her having to submit to other dogs all the time will really mess with her social skills and anytime she is scared she will always submit and thats not a good trait in a dog. Good Luck I think you will be just fine. Just train train train while shes young.

[kiya]

Puppies learn from older dogs, good & bad things. Lakota learned resource guarding from Apache & took it to the next level. Apache was not nice to her when she was a baby, now she is not nice to him.
Honestly I would keep my puppy away from dogs that are showing agression. Not only for the learning thing, but I wouldn't want my puppy in the middle of it.

[MaggieRoseLee]

You need to NOT have this puppy around your mom's dogs or you may have alot of different issues. Not just agression but more likely fear in general and maybe fear aggression down the line.

So important for our pups to think the world is a wonderful happy place with a fantastic leader always guiding the way (this is you ). So if you know there is a potential bad situation, then it's YOUR job to avoid it.

[mandiah89]

Originally Posted by MaggieRoseLee

You need to NOT have this puppy around your mom's dogs or you may have alot of different issues. Not just agression but more likely fear in general and maybe fear aggression down the line.

So important for our pups to think the world is a wonderful happy place with a fantastic leader always guiding the way (this is you ). So if you know there is a potential bad situation, then it's YOUR job to avoid it.

I have already separated them and they only had interactions for a week as my mother went on vaca. and I needed to watch her dogs while she was away... When I do go upstairs ( the basement is converted into an apartment for me) to help my mother with different things I make sure I put her dogs outside or in a separate room because I know they have these problems.

I have also told my mom she should put her dogs down as they have started snapping and biting people, and have snapped and almost bit my 8 month old nephew and she wont listen she is being selfish and wants to keep them here and they are clearly in pain and old and they hurt each other by constantly fighting, and it will only be a matter of time before they hurt one of us, or my sisters baby, or kill each other I just dont know how to get her to see how bad the issue really is.