The thing about it though, I barely touched Duke. BARELY at all.. and he snapped twice at me. It scared me a lot. I think the factors in him snapping at me were: 1.) He was by his mom. 2.) He was on the couch.

I can understand him not liking Nala because if he snaps or growls or does something SHE WON'T put up with it and will go right back at him.

The thing about Kiara is she avoids him as best she can. She could just be simply walking by and completely ignoring him and he'll go out of his way to snap at her. She's afraid of him, maybe he senses that?


Another thing that i've mentioned to Valerie is the fact that my dogs are already is a well situation "pack" - Simba is alpha, Nala is second down, and Kiara is last. All three know this very well as well as the fact that i'm alpha over them all.

The girls respect Simba, Kiara respects Nala. I think Duke just wants to dominate them all.. including Simba and that would explain why he tries the stuff he does with Simba. Simba doesn't care though because Simba KNOWS he's king. Nala doesn't want to give up her role and Kiara is just so submissive and scared of everything.


I really don't like the idea of letting them "work it out" - with Nala i'm pretty sure one of them would end up getting hurt. I wouldn't be able to forgive myself, Duke, or Nala if either of them got hurt. With Kiara, she's not willing to "fight back" and Duke has "put her in her place" many of times, all she does is cower down or try to get away from him.

We usually keep either Duke locked up or both of my girls locked up, and I hate doing that.

Who knows.. why are dogs so confusing sometimes.