Chihuahuas Fighting

[Pawsitive Thinking]

Odd for them to start fighting now. Wish I could help other than suggest a thick pair of gloves............

[Ray'sMom]

Well, after the first time, I wised up and now I always have my husband's leather welding gloves nearby!

[Dorothy39]

Your question has me wondering. after googled up and have read a few articles, I thought of sharing this link. http://www.canismajor.com/dog/feisty.html


I have read about jealousy between spayed females, however, I haven't found anything attributed to the Chihuahua Breed yet.

I'm sorry that your Chihuahuas are making such a fuss!!!!

[sanford8916]

That was a good article to read. So I can choose which dog I want to be next in the pack line??? Should I choose the dog with less attitude to be next??

[Ray'sMom]

It was a great article. Yes, I am noticing "a dirty look, a low growl, a shove," but then they just go at it so fast! They are both in the lowest pack positions, so maybe I should back off the privileges given to one of the Chihuahuas? But which one? Pack order is me, my husband and son, Rottie mix, Doxie, elderly cat, then Chihuahuas (not sure which is the lowest). I am really at the end of my rope with these two girls. The other dogs do not really get involved, except that they hang around the edges of the fight, almost as if they are making bets on the outcome! I am afraid that if it continues, the other two dogs will start to get violent as well.

[catnapper]

Is one the instigator more so than the other? Often I find when problems arise suddenly, that the one starting the fights actually has an underlying health issue. She's feeling vulnerable and lashes out when another dog is too close, etc.

[Ray'sMom]

Queenie is fairly large for a Chi., stocky, and generally very sturdily built. She is a classic "apple dome." Sophia is much smaller, very slender, a "deer-head" Chihuahua and appears to be part something else, perhaps small terrier. All of our dogs are rescues, so there is a lot about their pasts about which we do not know. When we got the dogs, Queenie was perhaps 2 years of age, and Sophia was was about a year old. We got them about 2 months apart (from Animal Control's "death row" ) The instigator of the fights is ALWAYS the smaller Sophia. I've had them both to the vets for check-up. The vet gave me no help at all re. this behavior.