My dog is aggressive with my husband only when I’m around
We adopted my dog 2.5 years ago. From what we know he was about 4yrs old when we adopted him. He’s a pretty anxious dog and doesn’t seem to have been socialized much during his early years.
After about 3 months with us he started aggressively barking at my husband in the middle of the night. After a few nights of it happening we thought it was because he was bothered by how my husband breathes while he sleeps. We bought a white noise machine and the barking at night stopped.
However, the aggressive behavior with my husband continues and has worsened. If my husband is working at his desk and I’m on the couch he will randomly start aggressively barking at my husband. If my husband goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night I have to cover my dogs faces for him to be able to get back in bed without being barked at. If in the morning when we wake up my husband gets up from the bed while my dog is still on the bed he starts aggressively barking.
It’s never as bad if I’m not home, but even then he’s goes through periods of time where he won’t let my husband grab him to go outside. We find it weird that this behavior occurs considering he spends a majority of his time with my husband as he works remotely. While my husband gives our dog a lot of love and attention, the aggressive barking has created a very unpleasant environment for my husband. He feels like he can never be at peace in his own home and cant even walk to the bathroom or around our house in peace. Not only is this frustrating for us, but we do worry about the future if we have kids how our dog will be.
Any advice on why this might be happening or what we can do to improve it would help.