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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I have had a similar situation with my three hounds.
First of all, I am no expert and may be way off base, but this is what has
worked for me. We had Flo and Gabe and then adopted Liz. She had
been a stray and acted like she must have had to fight for everything she got
to eat. She was food aggressive and had to have EVERY toy, etc so the
others never got to do anything. She was a big old bully. I started
keeping her separated from the others unless I was there to supervise.
When they were all together and Liz would take something from one of the others
or run them away from the toys, I would firmly tell her NO and give the toy
back to the dog that had had the toy. I fed them separately and
supervised meal time also. Liz eventually started getting the idea and
behaved as long as someone was around. It has only been in the last three
weeks or so that the other two now seem to be standing their ground when she
tries the bully tactics, which are getting fewer and farther between. It
was a tedious process, but the situation is pretty good now.</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Alicia, Flo, Gabe and Liz</span></font></p>
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