aggression

[natureluverchik]

I have two dogs. the younger of two (giblet) is almost constantly trying to become the dominent dog in my house. (hes perfectly ok with peopel) every 5 or so months my 2 dogs will fight. getting a bit bloody but nothing to worry about. Im gonna get him neutered in a few weaks would that help?

[Tia and Panzer]

Probably yes. Is the other dog fixed? Neutering/spaying take care of a lot of that, and a lot of the time it is just personality too. Let your dogs decide who is dominant, then support their choice, because if you don't, then they will continue to battle.

[Canislupess]

Yes, thats true. The more dominant needs to be treat as such. If you have him castrated and the other one isn't castrated, you could just lower him to the same level as the other and all war will break loose. Make sure the other is castrated too, otherwise, you won't be solving anything.

He will only attack the other when he feels it is a threat to his position. It's obvious he is the more dominant of the two so you must treat him as such all the time. Do everything with him first like putting his food down, letting him off and puttting him on the leash first, fussing him first. Believe it or not, even if he attacks the other dog, the other dog is still to blame because it would have done something to make him attack in the first place.

Don't show sympathy to who you believe is the victim because that only serves to favour them even more and the other one will feel an even bigger need to attack it. It might sound ridiculous but send the under dog away and fuss the higher ranking one. It will reinfirce his position and make him feel less of a need to go for the other dog.

I know how hard it is because I had this problem with my two bitches quite a few years ago. You must put your feelings of fairness aside because they mean nothing to dogs.

Well, good luck in whatever you do decide to do.

[natureluverchik]

our large dog buddy (hes 8) is the dominent one. but he is neutered. giblet(4) is not neutered and challenges buddy. every time they fight buddy allways wins exept one time when giblet got the upper hand. that help?

[Canislupess]

Yes it does.:angel4:

I had a very similar situation with my two bitches.

They are mother and daughter and both entire. The daughter kept trying it on with the mother. The mother was more diplomatic and had a natural authority over the other dogs that the daughter didn't have.

I demoted the daughter myself and favoured the mother over her. She then realised that her mum had the favour of me, their alpha and knows now that by challenging her mother, she is also challenging my decision which she certainly wouldn't do.

I did all the things I said to you before. If a fight started, I would send Jess (daughter) in the kennel out of the way then fuss Mist (mother). This can seem really unfair from out point of view but both dogs are a lot happier now they know where they stand. I never had to get Jess spayed. No problems at all for years.

It might be a good idea to get your younger dog castrated then, knowing the situation. Saying that, castration doesn't always have any affect on dogs 3 years or older because their dominace agression has become learned and castration won't solve it. You need to do it before it becomes learned. Still worth a try though. You won't be losing anything apart from some money and it might still work with his attitude but no guarantees now that he has reached four, I'm afraid.

Good luck. Hope this helps.