Had to take my little shitzoo to the pound

[Dragonkort]

well we did have a bit of sadness this weekend.  At the end of the summer spike and i got a cute little shitzoo dog. He was 8 months old at the time and everything was going just wounderfuly until this past 2 months. For some reason I can not figure out he started getting mean.  it started with little fights with sheba but that i figured was instint. sheba is like 17 and i know wolfs and ferral dogs push the old and weak out of the pack so i just made sure they were never alone together espical when it was feeding time.  But then he started bitting us. The first time was when we were giving him a bath that he didnt like and not knowing if he had ever had a bath before i chalked it up to being afraid.  but then a few days later he was lying on the head of the bed on my pillows and when i went to move him he bit me and there was no way it was due to being afraid of something. he bit me again a week or so later when i took shebas food from him and gave it back to her and then again when i was brushing him. each time he bit he was put into the wood shop away from the family for a little while. then on friday he was sitting in my chair and when i went to sit down he didnt move like he usuly did and when i went to push him over he snaped at me then spike got up before i could do anything to pick him up and take him off my chair he bit spike...not a nip a growling hard bite. so we started talking about taking him to the pound i had just decided to give him one more chance and see if i could get through to him when ritia came over and he actually attacked her. this was not the first time shes come over since we got him. so sadly i had spike take him to the pound. now i checked him for signs of any wounds or discomfort....hed been eating good and playing with his toys other then the bitting he was the same as hed always been. im still baffaled as to what caused him to start getting mean...the only way he was treated differently then sheba is the fact that he couldnt always go with us when i had to go some where. iv had dogs all my life and iv never had one turn like that. spike and i are the only 2 people in the house so i know no one was hurting him... now when we got him like i said he was 8 months old and had already had 4 different homes, it makes me wounder if maybe bitting was a reason for his having so many homes before we got him but it seems like he would have displayed this behavior sooner if that was the case. i sorely miss the woundeful little puppy he was before but i cant have a dog that bites as my grandson comes out and then there was the attacking of ritia... since being an adult iv always had 2 dogs...being pack animals i just think there happyer if they a cainine friend at least thats what i tell spike....i know im happer with 2  poor spike he dosnt want to live in a mini zoo so im limited to having only 4 pets  he dosnt care what kind they are for the most part although since the insodent with the german shepard he dosnt want me to have anything but small dogs....oh well there must be some reason he started getting mean i ust wish i knew what it was 

[amazingkevin]

Some things we'll never know.

[new2woodwrk]

It really sounds like jealousy to me.

Often times, when there are multiple pets in a home, we tend to favor one over the others, even being unaware we are doing so.

I have 2 rescues, a Beagle and a Terrier. We got the terrier when she was just 8 months old and the beagle fully grown, probably 6 or more years old.

Over time, as the Beagle has gotten older (he's also very afraid of thunder and storms) he is requiring more attention and the Terrier has started to growl when we move her off the couch or move her away from the Beagle;s food.

She snapped at one of us once - I don;t think she'll be doing that again. I'm much bigger and can bite harder LOL.

Anyway, I feel for you having give the little guy away. It's never easy departing with a friend. Hopefully, the pound is a no kill and the pup will get a nice home

[Dragonkort]

i only take an animal i cant keep to a no kill pound or shelter. If i could keep every stray i find id have a house full of animals, lol frountuly for dogs and unfrountly for me most strays i find are birds fallen out of there nests, raccoons bunnies, and such. and spike wont let me keep them lol but thats not a problem i always let them go once they were healthy enough to be set free again Since iv been an adult i have had a multi animal home, even more so since my kids are grown. The first thing i thought of was jealousy.  it happens in all spceses including human...so I make it a point to treat all the animals as much the same as i can depending on spices. With dogs i have a rule that spike sometimes finds hard to follow...what ever you do for one dog you do for both. Actually Henery was getting more attention then sheba. Being a much younger dog we could play together, mostly fetch as i can no longer do anything for any real length of time. lol at 15 she tends to spend most of her days sleeping, butshe does that mostly on the floor these days as she cant get comfortable on the chair with me. The only real difference is sheba being my service dog she goes out with me anytime i leave the house, I cant change that and you cant really leave dogs in a car anymore even if its not to hot or to cold. so I give the dog who has to stay home an extra treat and i rotate the dog toys so i can get one out thats not been played with in a long time to give them that has always worked in the past.... but iv never had a shitzoo before and different breads of dogs so at time have different inborn  instincks and trates.... what it seemed like it was to me power struggle....he wanted to move up in rank, which i wouldnt let happen. some dogs just have to be the leader of the pack or at least the alpha dog.  Henery couldnt be either. but we could guess forever and never really know what happened i suspect a combanation of all of the above. I am looking for another dog but this time IF its a breed iv never had before i'll goggle it to see if they have any trates im unfimular with it. and how to deal with them if i decide to get the dog.... spike would like me to start thinking about what kind of dog i will want for my service dog after sheba dies, but im not going to get another dog to take shebas job ( no dog could take her place anymore then she did chariles place my first service dog)  and start training it while shes still alive that just wouldnt work. if i started leaving sheba home and taking another dog when i go out she would die. shes been literaly at my side 24/7 since she was 6 weeks old. oh well all we can do is our best and lean on God for everything else...im sure he will lead me to the right dog to add to our home...my main mastake with henry was not asking God to guide me to the right dog in the first place, it never works out well when i dont and always does when i do youd think at my age id remember that lol