We had another incident last night. All Luca was doing was walking to the sofa and Misty attacked him because there was a square inch of destroyed chew... he then goes into meltdown. She never bites him, just pins him to the ground.
The issue with removing chews is Tilly will destroy the house if she doesn't have something to occupy her when I am out....
I am going to do a separation zone I think....
Shep, he knows where Misty and Tilly are (they aren't that quiet!) and its the sound of their movement near him sets him off..... I don't blame him because of how Misty behaves. Tilly, a squiggly, squirmy 1 year old, he tolerates near him on the sofa but he isn't comfortable and he will growl if she moves (which she does A LOT).
All the poor lad does is try and find a way to get from the kitchen down the steps and onto the sofa, his "safe zone" with me...
I have only just got him on a harness and my ideal is to be able to walk him, because I also think he has too much energy.
He has been a chain dog in Bulgaria and was deliberately blinded, so his view of "outside" is somewhere wet and cold where you pee and then come straight back indoors...
Any ideas would be appreciated. He has sufficient quality of life I am sure. He was in a shelter for a year before I got him, when he shut down completely and just faced a wall, and before that he was blinded to make him bark on a chain.... his whole life has been set up to reactively bark so it's just going to be a lot of different ideas I think! He doesn't bark at me or ever bite, although he has a warning mouth open when you touch his back or neck as he was carried round by them in the shelter.
I think I will try him living in my bedroom (which is very large) during the day and only doing supervised time at night with me and the zoomies. I don't know whether less time is better than less stress but I can only try......