BAD BAD day....My Dane attacked my Boxer.

[delceys_maddogs]

If the shock collar dosent work! let them fight it out they just want to establish the Alpha role and each time u prevent it they will try again!
when i moved i got my first GSD ex police dog and then the next one came and they would fight like mad! i tryed everything! till one day i can home and there was blood was everywhere, inside outside on the walls the ceiling! the dogs where no-where (i thought they had killed each other!). so i searched the flat and pushed the bedroom door open and they were on my bed licking each others wounds. they were best friend since and they share food cuddles and all now!!
Delcey
Ps they will hardly ever kill each other (unless they are hot killers)
you could allways supervise from inside and if it gets to the stage of death then intervene!

[Tonya]

That sounds so demented but I bet it would work. I don't think I could bear watching my dogs fight though. I would have to break it up.

[delceys_maddogs]

I know i hated when they fought!! thats why i allways stoped them!!! till they fought when i wasnt there i had no choice but they stoped (thank god).
at one stage i was going to have one put down (not rehomable) but i just couldnt do it, i had taken the dog on so i had to make it work!!! and now their fine together, and none of the other editions have bothered them!
Delcey

[Fox-Gal]

Thanks for the advice....it means a lot.

I don't belive I can let them fight it out, the first fight they got into...both dogs needed stiches, Tuffy almost lost one eye. Brock had him completely up in the air holding on to his neck. My husband had to beat Brock off with a 2x4. and even with that he got a chunk of his arm tore out. Even when it looked like Tuffy wasn't putting up a fight, Brock still went at it. I don't think I could ever watch something like that happen again. We were lucky, this fight was not as bad and they where easier to break up, so i'm hoping that might be a good sign. It only took 2/3 hard kicks and Brock let go. Then Brock went his way and Tuffy went another.

They need to work this out though....I want a happy home.

Last night Brock got out of the pen, he chewed a hole in the chainlink. He's never been pened so I guess he was telling us what he thought about that. I got up this morning and there was Brock sleeping on the front deck. And I was just getting ready to let Tuffy out to pee, thinking it was safe. So for now Tuffy will stay with me at all times, he going to be happy about that. Hope that doesn't make him think it's worth getting into fights, fight=mommy time.

Tuffy is going to be fixed, no more daddy job for him. I was told it could take up to 6 months for the testosterone to get out his system, so we will still need some good fence work to keep them apart. And of course theres that chance that it might not work.

Thanks everyone for the help.

[KYS]

Where it is good, to not bud in and let dogs
solve their own tiffs for Alpha status etc.
I am not a big fan on letting dogs
fight it out.
Not only can that lead to a big vet bill, but
the drag out fight sometimes can back fire where
the dogs will never get along again and must
be separated.
JMHO