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Thanks to everyone who wrote in on suggestions about how to help Jimmy and Pip get along better. But, sorry to say, we already feed Jimmy first. We supported Jimmy in his attempt to retain alpha position. What happened was that Jimmy started growling and bitching at all the dogs, not just Pip. It was like with our backing, he became a little tyrant. So we then had to make him get along with the other dogs, too. Jimmy came to us hoarding toys, and has always been food aggressive enough that he is fed separtely and first from all the other dogs. Us backing him seems only to have turned Jimmy into a bully. Pip is more tolerant than he was, but eventually no self-respecting adolescent male dog of a dominant breed is going take being bossed around, or having toys stolen out of his mouth. He?d play with Jimmy in tug of war, but Jimmy doesn?t want to play. He simply wants to have the toy, and not let anyone else have it.