Hi Guys,

I figured maybe someone on here can help, given how popular these dogs are. I have a Black Labrador, her name is Bella. I found her as a stray, she was very young, probably only 3 months old at the time, and she's about a year old now. She's an awesome dog, and she normally doesn't give me any trouble, but this morning she attacked our yorkshire terrier cross, and hurt him quite a bit. He's not in any danger, but still it was really bad!

The thing is, the two of them normally play for hours during a day, be it tug of war, or wrestling, or just running up and down outside barking at the dog next door. The only time she is ever aggressive with our two other dogs, is when we feed them. We have a minpin cross that she did this to as well, and after that we started feeding her outside, and everything has been going okay until this morning. As we where taking her food outside, the little yorky fell off his chair, and she grabbed him by the throat. I managed to get her off by pulling on her choke chain, but she had already bit him.

I was wondering if anyone else have ever encountered this kind of behaviour with their labrador. She never does anything like this unless there is food around.

Is there any way to stop her doing this. She hasn't been spayed yet, I'm going to do it as soon as I can, but the operation is extremely expensive, for some reason Vet's cost more than human doctors do in some cases!

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!