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[Stacie]

It is a full moon! I swear all the nutty things happen when there is a full moon!

[doberpagegirl]

While I hate to post it, I just broke up another fight. Queen Alley has decided Buddy must know his place. Well, SHE is in need of learning her place. She is so dominant to him sometimes. She bosses him mercilessly and he generally takes it pretty much. She pushes him all the time, and usually he lets it slide. Well today she went too far. She decided she could put him on his back and he drew the line. I broke it up fairly easily compared to their prior arguments. And they are both in the crates. So Miss Alley will be wearing her leash around the house for awhile to make it easier to correct her. Joaquin and I discussed it and she doesn't listen well when they are playing either. She will be off in Alley land. So we are maintaining a zero tolerance policy with that. Any time they don't listen, that is unacceptable, and they need to know it. Don't worry this wasn't a bad fight just a disagreement. Can't expect it to be sunshine and lollipops all the time. The point is that they are learning, and we will just keep working. It is mainly me. I need to promote my dominance, as once again, Joaquin is not home. I know it is me and I am working on it. So it was a little relapse, but at least this time it doesn't require $1000 worth of treatments at the vets. So, that's some improvement, LOL.

[CAB]

Remember what Arda said, act like you just found your husband/significant other in bed with another women. The neighbors should be able to hear you.

[CAB]

I use to scream at the top of my lungs at Val for acting inappropriately at Cocoa. He got the hint eventually. Poor fellow would submissively pee too, but now that only happens when I clip his nails.

[Stacie]

My neighbors must think I have a crazy house - not that I have the same problem with the dogs but every once in a while Lilo will push Magnum to far and he lets her know it - she backs off right away and comes running to me as if she is trying to get sympathy from me. Magnum is pretty tolerant of her and gives in 99.9 % of the time - we are very lucky in that sense - now to break her of the wee-weeing every time my husband tries to enforce the rules with her!

[Javaluva]

While I hate to post it, I just broke up another fight. Queen Alley has decided Buddy must know his place. Well, SHE is in need of learning her place. She is so dominant to him sometimes. She bosses him mercilessly and he generally takes it pretty much. She pushes him all the time, and usually he lets it slide. Well today she went too far. She decided she could put him on his back and he drew the line. I broke it up fairly easily compared to their prior arguments. And they are both in the crates. So Miss Alley will be wearing her leash around the house for awhile to make it easier to correct her. Joaquin and I discussed it and she doesn't listen well when they are playing either. She will be off in Alley land. So we are maintaining a zero tolerance policy with that. Any time they don't listen, that is unacceptable, and they need to know it. Don't worry this wasn't a bad fight just a disagreement. Can't expect it to be sunshine and lollipops all the time. The point is that they are learning, and we will just keep working. It is mainly me. I need to promote my dominance, as once again, Joaquin is not home. I know it is me and I am working on it. So it was a little relapse, but at least this time it doesn't require $1000 worth of treatments at the vets. So, that's some improvement, LOL.

Glad you caught it early! I know at my house, I constantly have to watch my 11 year old German Shorthair and six year old Weimaraner. My Weim likes to push my GSP until a fight escalates. 99% of the time I stop it well before it escalates--as soon as my Weim starts posturing, but there's that 1% of the time where I'm not paying attention or out of the room and we have a fight. Fortunately I've never had to take either to the vet over it, and typically there isn't any blood, but I generally try not to see what would happen by letting it go that far.

I also have to be careful in the passage between letting one in after being outside and one is already in the house. Usually we don't have a problem if the GSP is in first and the Weim enters the house.

Watch their body language and learn to guage their next move by what it's telling you. I know, sometimes it happens so fast, but sometimes that's all it takes to thwart a fight before it happens.