Jealousy?

[alfaevans]

When my eldest dog comes for some fuss and I give it my pup (10 months) will come and push the eldest away and start bouncing for attention.

What should I do?

Should I give them both attention or just the eldest and only give the pup attention when its on my say so?

Thanks

[Lorrie]

Hi ... this is actually not about jealousy .. it is about pack structure and dominence.

Here is a good link with Mick explaining it better.

http://www.rottweiler.net/forums/beh...hlight=jealous

[bfiney]

I know this has been debated before but isn't human jealous about pack structure & dominance as well?

[TR Young]

I would say no. Humans express jealousy because of personal lack and the want to have either the thing or person that we are jealous of. That being said, we COULD be jealous over "pack structure" or "dominance", but we can also be jealous over many other things. You could be jealous because a co-worker or family member has just won the lottery, but that has nothing to do with pack structure or dominance.
Animals express their desire to be a leader, and we look it as jealousy only because the only way we can try understand why an animal acts like that is to attach human emotion to the animal's actions.

[alfaevans]

Lorrie thanks for the link, excellent. Thanks also to everyone else. I now know how to handle the situation.

:-)