Baby beat up Tikeya... bad

[tikeyas_mom]

Originally posted by Dixieland Dancer
How old is Baby? If I'm guessing right she is somewhere around a year or a little over a year?

From this it doesn't sound like there was any blood (other than Baby's ear). This is actually a good sign. It means the dogs both had control of how hard they were biting and it was more of a fight of dominance to determine who is the alpha between them.

How you handle this will determine the need for future fights between them. You need to honor their determination in who the winner was. In other words even if you "want" to have Tikeya the alpha over Baby, you need to recognize that probably isn't going to happen. You need to let them know you recognize which one is alpha by honoring the alpha. This means the alpha gets everything first between them.

Keeping an eye on them until this is established is a good idea but the more you seperate them on a permanent basis, the more you are causing them to continue to determine who the alpha is between them.

i am not going to honor baby for bad behaviour she isnt allowed to be agressive period. and she acted agressivly. every since she was a pup we have taught her to be a passive dog, not an agressive one..
i will try your suggestion, i know Tikeya wont like it though.