my neighbors shepard

Question
I am a military spouse and I am currently puppy sitting for my neighbor for 2 months. She has a 5 year old male shepard. She also just recently had a baby 6 months ago, dad left for deployment a few months back and now mom and baby are visiting the states for 2 months. To throw into the mix the dog is cat friendly and we not only have 2 cats but a 2 year old spade lab mix who we just found out this week is epileptic. So he has been through a lot and is having troubles settling down. In his home he and dad half Alpha male issues and apparently the dog won. Then when the baby was born the dog became part of the background. Now he is having problems with my husband. He occasionally snaps at me, but that doesn't last long. If he goes into his kennel he will snap and attempt to bite at my husband. He has also come to urinate on my floors every time that my husband tries to take him out for a potty break. Unfortunately we live on a military installation that is not animal friendly and we do not have a yard we live in an apartment, a large apartment but no yard. He has his kennel and will hide in it all day and if he is not in the kennel then he is trying to force you to pet on him. Which I can understand. How do I help my husband to establish dominance with out anger, violence, the dog rebelling, to stop the peeing on my floors and the hiding and needing of excessive attention, like when he tries to shove himself between us if we are petting our dog. We have no problem showing them all plenty of attention the dogs get to go potty together and have separate breaks so that they don't share everything, they have their individual toys, kennels and playtimes. We cannot show either one more attention than the other and I would like to fix these issues because I don't want my husband to hate this dog and want us to live peacefully for the next two months. Can you please help I don't want to have to kennel this dog. We took him in because he has been through so much recently and had been pretty depressed before mom left and is good friends with our dog. Mom was afraid that the trip home would not be good for the shepard and didn't want to leave the dog in a kennel for 2 months. I hope that you can help me please, thank you so much for your time Eve.

Answer
Hello, Eve. I would recommend going to http://www.yahoo.com or http://www.google.com and doing a search for "Nothing in Life is Free" or "NILIF." You should get more than enough information on how to begin this 'program.' Everyone in the house MUST follow the program for it to work. NILIF should help with all of the issues you're having with the puppy. If you need some more help after reviewing the info on the web, please feel free to contact me again and I'll be more than happy to help!

Kristen