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I have a 15mth old intact male Pharaoh hound and a 5.5yr old neutered one. They both live in perfect harmony and have from the moment I brought the younger one home. Recently, the younger one is becoming a wild man at the site of another dog. Most times I can calm him down but after much barking growling and attempts to attack the other dog 90% males but he did posture a female and growled at her too. I know both his parents and neither is aggressive he has never been aggressive in the past this is all within the last 2-3 mths tops. After some SERIOUS correcting it has gotten better he no longer attempts to charge another dog but does continue to bark and if I give him leash I feel he may attack. When left to confront a friends Bloodhound, the Bloodhound did not react to his antics and within 10 mins they were playing happily.

NOW, he does play with my other dog and they do get a crazy but have never ever come close to hurting eachother intentionally, never are they nasty to eachother but could the rough play be encouraging this behavior?

The older one barks at dogs too but NEVER tries to go after them, he was attacked by a few dogs so he is acting out of fear because until the attack, he never barked. I do attempt to sqelch the barking from the other one thinking it may trigger the younger one to think he needs to be aggressive.

I feel most of it is his age and that with work it can be corrected so I am seeking ideas on how to continue to correct him so he understand this bad. Sorry this is so long I've never had this issue before, thank you.
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Denise
"I am I because my little dog knows me"
- Gertrude Stein

You don't say where this behavior is taking place so I'm assuming it's at home. It could be a case of him protecting his home and with his age he may be trying to validate his position as the alpha male. Any sudden behavior changes may also warrant a trip to your vet for a full evaluation. Since I don't know the breed very well and if you haven't already posted there, the Pharoah Hound forum here has many excellent people and breeders who may understand the behavior in your Pharoah and give you some valuable information to help you reverse this problem.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Well thanks for your thoughts the behavior is while walking, I do post on the Pharaoh Hound page quite often and have already spoken personally to most of them, it's a small group and to my breeder. I have gotten their thougths I was just expanding my inquires to see if anyone had something else to offer. The dog is very healthy there is nothing that has changed in his enviroment to warrent me thinking it's physical I believe it's being a teen as he is NOT a nasty dog. I know both his parents and most of his family and none have health issues. I guess I was looking for some advice or techniques I can apply to the situation when it happens, this is my first intact male.
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Denise
"I am I because my little dog knows me"
- Gertrude Stein

I know some people on the Shiba board who had this problem started using the gentle leader or would redirect the walk into another direction so as not to let the dog reinforce the conflict. I would agree it probably is an age thing being that he is just a few months shy of entering the terrible twos.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.