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Oooookay, so... I need your guys' help again. The house training seems to be slowly working. I keep her on a short leash while we go outside and don't really let her do anything until she takes a crap. At which point I'll give her a treat, make those annoying "good dog" sounds for a few minutes then she's free to run around for a bit. Inside we keep her inside her kennel unless there's someone around constantly keeping an eye on her. So far just one inside incident in the last three days. While she's outside, I'm also retraining some of her basic commands (stay, heel, come, etc), which I know she already knows, but seems to ignore them whenever she's off a leash.
However...
I don't know if I didn't spot this before and it's been happening for a while, or if it's a direct result, but she's starting to get quite aggressive. I had her on my chest, petting her, and the cat walked by... and she snarled and tried to attack her. I still had one of my fingers stuck in her body harness at the time so she didn't get very far, but either way. Then later tonight while one of my roommate's kids was petting her, gently I must add, she actually lunged at her, snarling, and bit her nose.
WTF might be happening here? The cat and pittbull are free to roam the house while she's in the kennel and she can probably hear the attention they're getting. I don't know if there's something to do with jealousy or what happening here but this is definitely something I don't want going on.
Help?
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