Maybe someone out there can help me with this.
My family has always had boxers and I now have two of my own. Solar I bought as a puppy and she is the joy of my life and I don't know what I would do without her. She is 20 months old now and, although we still have some obedience issues, she is the lovliest dog.
Griffin I adopted from a shelter 6 months ago. He is also very lovely but obviously not brought up in an ideal environment. He is very jealous about anybody touching his food bowl which both Solar and I can cope with, no problem.
The problem I have is that I cannot pet Griffin AT ALL, while Solar is around. She is not a problem though she always comes up for her share when I have done it. The problem is him. If I'm petting him, and Solar comes near he gets extremely jealous and attacks her, snarling, the whole bit. I can stop it but it all came to head last weekend when I went camping with some friends (and dogs, of course).
Griffin decided that the camp-fire-side was his territory and all the people in it and we had a couple of quite frightening episodes (for the other people with me). I had to eventually put Griffin away so that it couldn't occur.
Is there anyway that I can train this out of him? I don't want to have to leave him behind on camping trips because it was lovely to see the fun he was having racing over the dunes. HELP!
My family has always had boxers and I now have two of my own. Solar I bought as a puppy and she is the joy of my life and I don't know what I would do without her. She is 20 months old now and, although we still have some obedience issues, she is the lovliest dog.
Griffin I adopted from a shelter 6 months ago. He is also very lovely but obviously not brought up in an ideal environment. He is very jealous about anybody touching his food bowl which both Solar and I can cope with, no problem.
The problem I have is that I cannot pet Griffin AT ALL, while Solar is around. She is not a problem though she always comes up for her share when I have done it. The problem is him. If I'm petting him, and Solar comes near he gets extremely jealous and attacks her, snarling, the whole bit. I can stop it but it all came to head last weekend when I went camping with some friends (and dogs, of course).
Griffin decided that the camp-fire-side was his territory and all the people in it and we had a couple of quite frightening episodes (for the other people with me). I had to eventually put Griffin away so that it couldn't occur.
Is there anyway that I can train this out of him? I don't want to have to leave him behind on camping trips because it was lovely to see the fun he was having racing over the dunes. HELP!
