Last night my dog killed one of my parents' dogs presumably over food. I'm worried that this might create more dog or cat aggression. How can I prevent this?

Hi,



I hope you can answer this question for me. A little background about the situation.... I have a 4 and half year old pit/boxer/shepard neutared male (his name is Spencer). In the last month I left my abusive husband and have moved in with my parents (he never hurt Spencer). My parents have two chihuahuas. My dog and the chichis have met before and have gotten along fine, my dog and the chichis have never been left alone together. Also, my dog has been around cats and I have a five month kitten who spencer just adores. Well, anyway last night my mom had locked up one of the chichis in the kitchen with some food in a bowl for him, then my dad went into the kitchen and left the door open and spencer went in the kitchen. A couple minutes later I went into the kitchen and spencer had killed the chichi. I am assuming over the dogfood since there was dogfood spilled all over the floor. I feel so terrible about this situation. Will this cause Spencer to be more dog/cat aggressive or was this dogs fighting over food? Please let me know your thoughts on this issue because I feel so bad about the everything.



Jen