Thanks everyone for the advice so far. I suppose I should have worded a little different what she is doing. I didn't mean "MEAN" as in agressively mean. Now that I read it it sounds like she's a little monster.

She doesn't do it to be mean MOST of the time. Especially the smallest one. She loves him to pieces and thats the problem. She carries him everywhere, 'dances' with him by swinging him around by his front paws. I have tried to explain that they don't like to be carried, picked up, ridden on, danced with, or all of those other activities she loves and drive them insane. Day in and day out. I have shown her how they like to be petted, taken away privledges, seperated her from them, put her in the corner but when she comes out it is a bee line back for them.

She's not showing much agression toward them. Its more like playful destruction. She does hit them if they growl at her and I think thats where it escalates because she hits them with whatever is handy, a brush, a broom, her hand, a shoe, whatever. I think that they have gotten afraid of being hit which makes them growl which makes her hit. Its one of those chicken or egg issues. I don't know if they started growling first or she started hitting.

And she is nothing like this around other children. Her preschool teachers have always bragged about how well mannered and good natured she is. She is extremely friendly and doesn't meet someone she doesn't like. Maybe she's jealous because I brought them into the house after her and she may feel like she has to share her parents affection now?

As for the euthanasia issue, I couldn't put down 2 perfectly healthy animals because I am tired of the fight. And they are both perfectly healthy other than a little cosmetic problem. They just have eyesight limited to one eye and thats not even that bad because it doesn't stop either of them. Even the 11 year old has a clean bill of health and the vet says he could live another 5-8 more years. I will just continue to try to keep them apart until hopefully one day someone will want them or she goes to college and continue to pull my hair out until I can get them all to get along.

OH! and I've looked into no kill shelters in my area and there are none whatsoever in Mississippi. The closest one is in TN and it has a waiting list.

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