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So our newest dog, Jack, that we just got over the past weekend gets along pretty well with our one dog Benji (the one I thought would have problems with him) and is getting increasingly more aggressive with our other dog Reddington. Today, he keeps putting his head over Reddington's neck and lowly growling at him and then sometimes trying to hump him or it turns out into an all out snarling match that freaks me out. He could very easily hurt Reddington and I'm getting more worried about leaving them alone at the house without one of us present. We may have to see if my husband's sister will take him if we can't get this solved quickly and we don't have tons of money to spend on someone to come in and help. I don't know what it is about Reddington that seems to be upsetting him. At first I thought he was being possessive because the first time a fight happened was over a bone, the second time was when he was on the bed with me and Reddington jumped up for attention. This past time we were just in the kitchen and I was trying to open something when it all happened so there was no obvious trigger other than Jack doing his weird head over the neck thing to Reddington.

Thanks Jennifer! That is some good advice and I appreciate the links! LOL, I definitely understand Abbi's frustrations! :p

Hey All! New member here and I really need some help. I have two dogs that are about a year and a half (got one of them as a 6 week old and the other we got last year from the SPCA). We also just got a dog that is between the ages of 2 and 4 a few days ago (he was found by someone that couldn't keep him and no one claimed him from the shelter). Obviously since he's new, it's understandable that he may have some issues although he seems to be adjusting really well and we were told that he had no potty trouble at the other person's house. We have a sliding door to the patio and have a small area outdoors of imitation grass for the dogs to go to the bathroom in, plus potty pads on the patio because one of the dogs is prissy and doesn't like getting his feet wet from the grass (any suggestions for this would be helpful too LOL). We used to leave the sliding door open for them when we were home and we just got a dog door (I took the flap off for now because it was freaking them out). Despite the fact that we would leave the door open and now have this dog door access, they still continue to potty in the house daily! They will go outside sometimes or on the pads but other times they go in the house, and I cannot for the life of me figure out the reasoning behind it. I have tried giving them treats when they go outside (which they learned to take advantage of by acting like they needed to go out frequently and then not doing anything or peeing like one drop lol). What do I do to get them completely potty trained (brownie points for no need to use pads ;))? Please help and thanks in advance!!