Thanks Joan for sharing your experience! My Dali, like your Dolly is also alpha dog. She will bark and pull to get at another dog when we are walking too! Funny thing is that when another dog is barking at us first, she stays quiet and just walks on by. It's like she knows not to push her luck! I am supposed to soon have another male Chi joining our family, and I have been trying to convince my husband to let me adopt a tiny female rescue who has been in foster care for so long. She is terrified of everything you but I think our quiet home and lots of patience would help her to come around eventually! My husband has softened a little, (he's really concerned that she would cost us a small fortune in medical care) but I want my Dali to be more friendly and used to other dogs so as not to traumatize any new dogs in our home.
Sent via DroidX2 on Verizon Wireless™ -----Original message----- From: Joan Croft <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Mar 5, 2012 05:15:49 GMT+00:00 Subject: RE: [Chihuahuas] One person dog Besides Desi, Dolly only likes one other dog.a little Maltese across the street named Sonny. When Mandy comes over here, Dolly's alpha dog takes over and she will only once in a while even sniff Mandy. This time, Desi is protecting his sister and when Mandy comes and Dolly is screeching, Desi is doing it also. After about 5 minutes they all like each other. Dolly & Desi want to be by me, and Mandy just wanders around.and I cannot give her the one-on-one attention that she gets at home with two parents. I am just one person and this makes three dogs, so I guess it would be like my neighbors having six dogs at a time. I have had to train Mandy to wait her turn for treats, and am trying to teach her not to jump up on me when I am standing.this so that if I watch her when my back is worse, or after surgery, she knows not to jump on me. I wish they would all play together. Mandy runs down the side of my yard whenever I let her out and she runs to the gate (solid iron) and barks. I have to call her back, but that doesn't work so I have to go towards her to get her to get back in the back yard. The side of the house that Mandy runs down and barks is the same side that would be on my house side of her yard. I really am not in the bedroom or bathroom at that side of the house to hear if she is barking, but if I am outside in the front, I frequently hear her barking by the gate. I guess these are behaviors that are OK with her parents, but I have to make sure that Dolly & Desi don't learn th
