Bailey is getting more and more food aggressive lately.
I feed both Bailey and Willow a hard feed at dinner time and they both really look forward to it. They are waiting by the stable when I arrive home from work, knowing it's almost time to eat.
I hang their feed buckets over the fence, with a good distance between them. Bailey always thinks that Willow is getting something so much better than he is.
He wanders between his bucket and her bucket with his ears pinned the entire time. My poor Willow is so timid that all Bailey has to do is walk towards her and she backs away from her dinner.
She then has to walk around very wide and try his feed. Well, by the time this happens, he has chased her down and is then in charge of both buckets!
He runs from bucket to bucket while Willow grabs what she can.
Bailey does not need the extra food where as Willow is very finely built and can't afford to loose weight.
I could lock them away seperately, but was hoping someone would be able to suggest a way to help Bailey realise that he has to share!
He loves his little sister at all other times, just not dinner time! He shows no signs of aggression towards me as I simply won't tolerate it, but poor Willow will.
Even as I'm carrying their feed towards the fence to hang up the buckets, he is chasing her around the yard 'just in case' she gets some 1st!
Help!
I feed both Bailey and Willow a hard feed at dinner time and they both really look forward to it. They are waiting by the stable when I arrive home from work, knowing it's almost time to eat.
I hang their feed buckets over the fence, with a good distance between them. Bailey always thinks that Willow is getting something so much better than he is.
He wanders between his bucket and her bucket with his ears pinned the entire time. My poor Willow is so timid that all Bailey has to do is walk towards her and she backs away from her dinner.
He runs from bucket to bucket while Willow grabs what she can.
Bailey does not need the extra food where as Willow is very finely built and can't afford to loose weight.
I could lock them away seperately, but was hoping someone would be able to suggest a way to help Bailey realise that he has to share!
He loves his little sister at all other times, just not dinner time! He shows no signs of aggression towards me as I simply won't tolerate it, but poor Willow will.
Even as I'm carrying their feed towards the fence to hang up the buckets, he is chasing her around the yard 'just in case' she gets some 1st!
Help!
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