Ever since we got back from our trip to Florida, Murphy, sweet-natured, submissive Murphy, has been, for lack of a better term, a total jerk. I don’t know if it’s the stress of our traveling a lot in November, if we’re doing something to make him aggressive, or if he’s just going through some adolescent rebellion or something, but it’s getting old fast.
Last weekend, he attacked Ty. He has been extremely food aggressive and keeps running over during mealtimes and knocking Ty out of the way to eat his food. Yesterday when I tried to drag him away, he made two snarling attempts to bite me. And that, as far as I’m concerned, is completely unacceptable. I put him down and made him submit, a la Cesar Milan, but he still kept lunging at me.
After the fight on Saturday, I’ve been a little nervous, and I’m sure that’s making it worse. But yesterday I wasn’t scared — I was pissed. And then he did the same thing again when a friend stopped by, jumping at the door like he was going to go through it. When I pulled him back, he snapped at me again and I finally just put him in the bathroom until she left because I couldn’t handle it. I know that’s bad, but I didn’t know what else to do!
I think we’re going to have to bring in the Bark Busters, because he is already way too big to be an aggressive dog, and if this keeps up when he’s full grown, I can see someone wanting us to put him down, like if he goes after someone else’s dog the same way he went after Ty.
Has your dog had aggression problems? How did you handle it? Leave a comment.