Help with food aggression
We adopted a 10 yr old maltese in Nov 2013, bringing us to 3 maltese. Since all 3 of them must take meds in the morning, we feed them wet dog food and place the pills in their food. Jazzie, our res...
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doxiemom11, no she isn't aggressive to us. She just moves in on Kissie's food so quick after she has gobbled down her wet food that I hardly have time to say no before she has engulfed Kissie's food.
Usually while they are eating, I'm trying to put clean water in their water bowl and fill their dry food bowl.
When she does this I tell her no and with my hands I move her away from the plate. Of course one of my fears is that Kissie hasn't gotten her pred pill before Jazzie has taken over and that sure wouldn't be good.
I guess I need to sit on the floor in between Jazzie and Kissie so it doesn't happen but this really isn't the best solution to the problem. Either that or go back to feeding her in another room but again that doesn't solve the problem.
Her foster mom did tell us she had food aggression in her house but I thought it was because they took in a lot of foster dogs and she was "fighting" for her place as the "new kid on the block." I thought she had been here long enough to understand all 3 are treated equal and she will never be left out.
Thanks everyone for the replies.
Usually while they are eating, I'm trying to put clean water in their water bowl and fill their dry food bowl.
When she does this I tell her no and with my hands I move her away from the plate. Of course one of my fears is that Kissie hasn't gotten her pred pill before Jazzie has taken over and that sure wouldn't be good.
I guess I need to sit on the floor in between Jazzie and Kissie so it doesn't happen but this really isn't the best solution to the problem. Either that or go back to feeding her in another room but again that doesn't solve the problem.
Her foster mom did tell us she had food aggression in her house but I thought it was because they took in a lot of foster dogs and she was "fighting" for her place as the "new kid on the block." I thought she had been here long enough to understand all 3 are treated equal and she will never be left out.
Thanks everyone for the replies.
