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Please advice as to what line of action would you take.

My dominant male GSD 1 year old does not let my pet neutered male labrador come into the house.

My labrador is showing meek signs of submission and preferring to stay outdoors. My GSD has pretty much taken over the house. The labrador was the old dog and the GSD is the new addition.

What would you do?  What should be the line of action? Can the two live together in the house? How can this be done. The GSD is very dominant male



thanks for all inputs

regards
 

Put the GSD's butt in the Crate !!

I agree with Red Sable, it is up to you to make sure the GSD knows the lab is welcome inside the house. I would even make a point at times, to let the lab inside and make the GSD stay outside. I would make sure the GSD enters the house, only after the Lab. What tools you use are up to you. I would keep a lead on the GSD at all times so as to be able to make a correction until he understands how you want the  pecking order to go. 

Have you done any training with the GSD?  As stated above, you need to take charge and become the pack leader.  The GSD should not decide who comes or goes in your house.  I would start some obedience training and handle the situation very quickly.  I do agree with what's been stated above, but I wouldn't make the GSD submissive to the lab.  If it were my GSD it would respect me and be obedient to me.   

Two males in the house like this can be a problem.  I would take this very seriously and not leave the dogs together when your not home.

What's the pedigree on the GSD?  Just curious.

Jim

i agree with what most are saying. Make sure he knows you are the leader and you say who comes and goes.

 

I have a similar problem I would actually like some help on, not to hijack your thread, but:
Generally my male German Shepherd and Female Flat-Coated Retriever (spayed) get a long, inside and outside. However every time we walk out to the back yard he starts acting up. He will chase her aggressively around the backyard, it tends to be very hard to correct him without him making a game out of it, but I try to make him submit to her when he does.If I have him on a lead he will not act up at all. They play perfectly fine if nobody walks outside. I'm not sure how to handle it exactly.

I would put that GSD in a crate or give them each separate parts of the house.  My rule is that regardless of temperament, any new dog does NOT inconvenience current dogs.  There is NO loss of privilege that a current dog has already earned, just because a new dog comes in.  So for example when I got my puppy and he was penned or crated a lot, my other dogs still got free reign and couch time even if it upset the puppy to see them free.

YOU need to step up as the leader and say who gets to do what.  Maybe the dogs can't get along, that's fine, but the original dog should NOT be forced out of the house because the new dog is a bully.

Both Posters go to the top of the Leader Board..no ifs , ans. or butts...  Get your training obedience  lessons in gear...time for a 30 day   "Come to Jesus "   lesson..

No playing games with the one chasing the female..not allowed....Do not tell anyone you cannot get the gsd male to correct him......

He would be mince meat at my house...    WALK QUIETLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK  ...

DO YOU HAVE COLLARS ON THESE TWO DOGS.////???     FROM NOW ON, WHEN YOU OPEN THE DOOR...MAKE MALE SITZ IN  FRONT OF DOOR BEFORE OPEN...

 MAKE THE FEMALE COME OUT  SAME WAY....PUT YOUR GERMANS SHEPHERD MALE IN A PLATZ AND MAKE HIM STAY ..IF HE WONT...WORK ON  platz and stay for the next two weeks    daily....you ought to be able to put your gsd in a sitz and let the female out and her walk all around him until he is told ot release.....same with the female... do her training the same way...the minute you call either ones name  , they should come to you for a sitz or a platz or go inside or kennel....

Be Alpha..

YR

I would do as Y.R says You are the pack leader or should be, The G.S needs to be put in the right pecking order and that is below the Lab
When i take my Pup Izzy out for a walk etc,  She is in Sitz postion at the entry gate until i go in or out and she stays until i call her in, they we have another gate into the back garden where her pen is she sits again i go in first every time Your dogs live indoors so i do not have that problem but good info above but the Shepherd is last on the list
Y.R i think both dogs are Males but the info is just as sound
Steve1

Good morning all,I have 2 male GSD's,both unnutered and both live in the house .When I first got the second boy I read alot of the articles on Ed Frawleys Leerburg website and practised them religiously.I took my time,was very cautious and NEVER left them unsupervised .Today they are wonderfull together but I still dont  leave them alone for long periods unsupervised.This can be a very difficult situation unless you get a handle on it fast.Vikram,reach out for help ANY WAY YOU HAVE TO or this can turn very ugly very fast with one OR both of your dogs hurt.Good luck with your dogs.