melanieian
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Brodie turned 1 yr old on 11/27 overall he is a very good dog. He plays well with my boyfriends Boston Terrier, although she terrorizes him because she is so hyper he does not get mad. But if he has a toy he will growl, at her and all of us. Some toys he does fine with but others he gets super mad and growls like he means it. He will grab the pillows off the couch and guard them also. If you try to take something from him he growls louder and bites up on whatever it is so he gets a better grip on it. Now he does not bite us, he did go through a phase where he would jump at my 4 year old daughter but wasn't biting her, he was more like hitting her in the face with his face?? That is now under control. I have tried and tried and tried to get him to understand we are not going to steal his toys from him, he basically only does it when the toy is new and with things he is not supposed to have like the couch pillows, which I now keep out of his reach except if i'm laying on the couch with one, socks he steals from my sons room, a pair of shoes, my daughters toys. We are pretty good about keeping things out of his reach but sometimes he sneaks and finds something and starts growling like crazy when we walk towards him and we CAN NOT get it from him. I have to get him a treat and throw it and he stares at the treat for a few minutes then runs as fast as he can to the treat and grabs it and runs back to whatever it was he had, we have to be superfast to grab it before he gets back to it. he also has started a new thing of chewing on the corners of my couch!!!! i have tried the water bottle thing and at first it worked but now it makes him ANGRY and he snaps at it and tried to "kill" it. If I can just get this agression under control he will be the perfect dog! I read through the post that Cali Jenn had and I am going to try some of those tactics.