AWESOME!! Thanks for the terrific thoughts to all! I am definitely going to try your suggestions. I love this forum! Everyone is so great with their suggestions and their help.

Well, we tried the new system this evening...feeding Levi in the kitchen and the other two outside. There weren't any signs of aggression on Levi's part, however, he kept taking bits of raw chicken, one at a time, to his open kennel. So we closed the door to the kennel and then he just took the chicken out of the bowl and ate it on the carpet in front of his kennel. Then we ran him out of the family room where his kennel sits and he ate his chicken all over my kitchen floor....lovely

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I have a senior dog who makes a high excited keening sound in the back of his throat

Ahhh....The banshee scream. Mine does the same, but adds a "vibrato". Imagine the highest, loudest note you can make accompanied by a tongue roll. Kinda startling sometimes.


Back on topic, I do like everyone else and set feeding time up where conflicts can't happen. Besides being aggressive, I've watched my 14 lb. dog swallow an almost 4 oz. chunk of meat to protect it from the other dog. Thats something I definately want to avoid.

He gets very bad with resource guarding if left unchecked. He doesn't even want other dogs to eat grass out of the yard.

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Ahhh....The banshee scream. Mine does the same, but adds a "vibrato". Imagine the highest, loudest note you can make accompanied by a tongue roll. Kinda startling sometimes.

When Lear isn't being his tough GSD self and barking accordingly, and just wants my attention or is "talking" to me, his high pitched bark is ear shattering...I keep hoping it's just puberty.

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...He doesn't even want other dogs to eat grass out of the yard.

:laugh: What a crack-up! Dogs - ya gotta love 'em.

Just a quick thanks to all who posted replies. I have since started locking out the other two dogs and started feedling Levi in the kitchen. He's not too keen on it at the moment and frankly neither am I because he tends to move his food from his bowl to another part of the kitchen or carpet to eat on. I'm working on this...still, no food aggression has been going on and my lab doesn't seem to be going towards the crate much anymore now that he knows that their aren't food droppings in there. However, whenever I have company now, if I put Levi in the crate he barks aggressively. I tell ya, I just dont know. A breeder told me a while back that the sweet dog that I had now (at nine months) wouldn't be the same dog that I had a year from now. That he would change into a terror as he aged. that training was essential. I am working at this, of course but in the one month that has passed since she gave me this advice I have seen a change coming over him slowly but surely..do these little guys usually morph into tyrants as they age?? LOL!