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From: DH
Date: 12/5/00
Time: 3:04:03 PM
Remote Name: 12.21.202.159
A good question. What do people do? Naturally as Judy says avoidance is the best step. I have two females. They're sisters, 9 years old. If I tie them together in the yard there's a lot of snipping although they both go into their house if I call their name. Best thing to do is put a dog between them. These same two dogs however are tied next to each other on the truck and run together in lead & I've never had any problems with them fighting.
Avoidance. This dog we have now that is too excited. We just have to make sure he has someone to hang on to him. It's not fair to the other dog, no matter how mellow, to be chewed on. Once we get going for a bit we may stop so the dog learns to stand without biting. I'm hoping we will eventually get some snow and get milage on the dog and that will take some of the vinigar out of him.
Like Old Musher, I have a young dog I'm working with in lead. She's pretty excited & the other leader wants to loose her patience with her. A good no & a little shaking did the trick. Not enough to upset the young leader, but enough to let the older dog know she had to behave.
The biggest problem we have is teaching dogs that come to our yard as adults. Right now we have this one excited dog that wants to bite, we have one line chewer, we had some barkers. All those things are not allowed. The dogs learned pretty easily not to bark, but were still working on the other two. I hate fighting. It is amazing to me to go to a race and see 500+ dogs and not a fight among them. It's beautiful. I don't know if any of this helps. It's rare for us to have a fight & usually just yelling breaks it up and then they give us that guilty, sorry look that only a dog can give. One of the reasons I like raising my own pups.