My two 3-month old puppies fight?

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One is a yorkie-poo and the other is a Pom and much smaller., a runt. When I feed them both in seperate bowls, the yorkie-poos gulps his food and then runs to devour the pom's food who can't keep up w/that pace since his tiny mouth can only nibble one kibble @ a time. The yorkie has even tried to extract food from the pom's mouth.  I step in front of his bowl when I see this, but it's very upsetting. Any suggestions? Will the one pup eventually grow out of that aggressiveness? It's ironic because the Pom is the one w/the major alpha personality. I'm confused. HELP>

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I would feed them in separate places to start off. if this continues this could be food aggression and you need to fix it now while he is young. put them back together. when they are eating together and he runs over, push him a way gently and firmly say no (don't yell)  continue to do this each day. he is being greedy and mean. hopefully this will stop the problem. if not you need to hire an obedience trainer and focus on the food aggression. good luck with you and your puppies! i hoped i helped! :)

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Definitely feed them separately so the Pom is able to eat but make sure that you do things such as petting them, moving their bowl around, putting fingers (or if your not comfortable with that, other objects like sticks) in their food to prevent them from becoming food aggressive with you or anyone else. Many times when dogs are so used to having their food all to themselves, they can become very aggressive if anyone else tries to mess with it so make sure you do these exercises often!

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My two 3-month old puppies fight?

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