Since I moved in with my partner, things have been great. I like living with him, I love him even more than I did before and I'm grateful to have our home together to keep functioning while I'm bored.
We've had significant problem since joining households; my dog isn't happy with the new pack dynamics.
Suddenly, she's aggressive and confrontational when she had never been before. She still listens to my partner, no problem, but she'll harass and ignore me in turns until I want to lock her in the bathroom or something (which, for the record, I never do).
It's been suggested that the problem is that in our previous life, there were two of us and she was ok with accepting me as the alpha leader of our little pack. Now that the pack has expanded, she's not quite sure which of us is number 2 and which is the lowliest member of our pack. Having clearly accepted mister as the boss, she's fighting me for the second-in-command spot.
We'll just have to see how this all shakes out, I'm working on some training exercises with her to try and reestablish dominance and hopefully it will help. So far, it just seems to make her nervous.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
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