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My MIL got a dachshund puppy, Ginger, about the time my FIL was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. She grew up and figured out the humans were not alpha and became a rather angry dog trying to protect the humans from everything. We kept her at our house for a week when they went to a final vacation before he slipped away mentally. She went after my wife's 17 years old dachshund and I promptly interceeded, and explained she was not the alpha in out house. Same technique, grab her, flip her upside down, and lean down over her with her between my legs. She was trapped, and had a giant human (compared to a 12 pound dog) and angrily explained it to her. I never had to hit her or spank her, just tone of voice and control her actions.
Until she died of old age when we went to see my MIL we made sure to get her in the kitchen tile floor because she was going to submissive pee when she greeted me. She did not do that for anyone else.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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