When my dogs fight, Muskwa and Heyoka are rarely involved. It's the middle of the pack dogs that get into it occasionally. Muskwa will actually break up an altercation. He'll go stand between two growling dogs until they back off. He never does anything, just stands there and glares at them, like a ticked off parent sending fighting siblings to their rooms!
lol same deal here, now that Misty is fully established as Alpha she does not start fights, she breaks them up. and oddly enugh she breaks up fights between dogs she has never met before and they always listen to her, no matter how large or dominant they are, I dont know how Misty does it, but I suppose Misty WAS bred to handle cattle and her mom has stopped a raging bull in his tracks.. lol

pack order is VERY important to my dogs, we tried the punnishing severly thing(both dogs no matter who started it) if they tried to fight it out, that was a HUGE mistake, because all that did was make them fight more and fight worse, we had so many dog injurys from alpha fights when we were doing this, finally we stopped, let them fight it out, and guess what? 1 injury free fight and pack order is fully established, with nobody challanging it. Perky likes to bully Happy, that that is not alpha wars seeing as perky has ALWAYS been above Happy lol Happy does not challange perky and submits to her on sight.