My friend Sarah has two dogs, the older one is a black lab named Aurora and she's about 10-11 years old. Her younger one (recently adopted) is a chocolate lab named Chancellor.
She is having a very hard time establishing herself as the Alpha with him. She has corrected his behavior, made him eat after she and Aurora have eaten and won't allow him on the furniture but he's VERY stubborned and has snapped at her and doesn't listen to her when Sarah commands him to stop trying to hump Aurora. She rolled him the other day and he tried to bite her.
She wants it to work out, but she told me point blank that she doesn't trust him and if they can't work it out, he is going to have to go. She doesn't want to get rid of him and really needs help because all of the basic methods aren't working.
Is it possible that a dog will see itself as the alpha no matter what? She's getting desperate as she really wants to keep Chancellor, but will not keep a dog that gets aggressive with her. I couldn't offer much help as I didn't have these issues with Seven.
::edited for spelling::
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