Dog Health Questions: Help with Dog Training?

I have a 3 yr old Jack Russel/Border Collie mix dog. She has not been spayed yet. She is very smart, but lately has become very predatory. She DOES NOT like our 17 month old son, and we recently adopted a new puggle puppy, who is only 6 months old. Meisha, (the jack russell) just bears her teeth and growls at her. She wants nothing to do with anybody but me. My wife and son pretty much are just 2nd class to her, and she will only respond to my commands as well. Does anybody have any tips on how to get her to accept my son and my new dog. Will getting her spayed fix this issue? Please help. I love her to death, she is my "first born" lol and I don't want to get rid of her. Side note, I feel it is worth mentioning that Meisha will eat the crotch out of my wife's underwear and pants EVERY chance she gets. She won't do it to me, just her. She has been trained, and like I said, she is EXTREMELY Intelligent. I have tried all the tricks that Ceaser has on his show, like the neck grab etc. and nothing works. We even have our son give her treats, and she will take them from him, and run and hide. She shakes when she is around him, and has a low growl. What am I doing wrong?

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she might be very protective of someone or dominant. i would recommend finding a profesional trainer because people who try and help you over the internet dont know your dog. personally i believe that spaying and neutering your dog is always better and some say it makes them live longer. also, a male dog can smell an un spayed female from very far away! this can some times cause problemes as dogs have bred through chain link fences before. good luck with you pooches and i hope this helped.

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• You need to consult with a professional behaviorist. A dog who shakes and growls around a toddler is not a fix-it-yourself project. Ask your vet for recommendations.


• Adam...obviously a dog that "shakes" just being around a child is not the most bomb proof dog nerve wise you would want around the house.
  She will never get over it and start loving your wife and son, although, in the right hands, she could be manageable...obviously, you are not the right hands.
  Please consider giving this dog to someone that could handle her, a home without any kids as she will eventually find a way to bite the baby and it is just not worth it. Hope I helped!


• Ah this is tough. Spaying will not help much, this is all training.
  
  Both JRTs and BCs are intense personality dogs. They do tend to bond tightly with 1 person. I would have to ask how she has acted towards the baby since day 1? Is she just recently showing her dislike since he has gotten mobile? Has she always been dog aggressive? Is this new?
  
  Since this involves a child, I would immediately be on the phone finding a trainer. I would not rely on a TV show or internet people to solve it. I would have a consultation and temperment evaluation pronto. Based on that, you will have to decide if you can move forward with her or rehome..


• thats a real problem
  make sure that when meisha is around the kid or the other puppy make her feel like "good things happen to me when im nice to them or with them" you could give her somethin tha she likes when they are around
  did yo guys socialize her with other dogs and ppl when she was a puppy? i dont think this would ve occured if u guys did that
  if a dog shakes tha means shes stressed or somethin
  hope i helped :)