This is what happens when people read books. They start to think they understand you. If I wanted to be understood I\u2019d have booked in to see the psychologist. Now, to be fair, she may have a point. Anyway, what has happened is that my Mistress is reading a book on pack leadership. Then she sat us all down last night to discuss our issues. What a nerve. We don\u2019t interfere in her \u2018issues\u2019. To be honest, I prefer to think we don\u2019t have any issues. She thinks that some of the problems with Megan and Shadow are because although Shadow thinks she is top dog she isn\u2019t the one favoured by my Mistress. She doesn\u2019t sleep in our room and she isn\u2019t the one that my Mistress trains and looks after. Shadow was getting quite excited by this point, thinking she had got her point across. I on the other paw was feeling fairly glum as I realised some of the implications of the problem. Shadow is a very dominant dog. She is small and she makes up for it by using force to get her own way. She takes the bed she wants. She takes all the big chews and doesn\u2019t let us have any. She has all the toys. More to the point, thanks to Shadow we don\u2019t really get any toys. The only thing she doesn\u2019t have is my Mistress. She is very definitely mine first and Megan\u2019s second. Shadow does not share. Once she decides something belongs to her, she makes sure the others of us know that and doesn\u2019t let us anywhere near. I can\u2019t stand the thought that that might happen with my Mistress. She\u2019s mine. We have a very special relationship and it would upset both of us if we lost that. So what is the answer? The only other possibility is if I were to assert my natural authority and put Shadow in her place, but I\u2019m just not that sort of dog. I don\u2019t do aggression. I would rather be the one on the floor submitting than have to use force to get my point across. Besides which, I\u2019ve seen the teeth on Shadow and they aren\u2019t pretty! We need to give it some more thought.<\/p>\n
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