Due to the way the economy has become, I had to move in with my parents. They at the time already had two 7 year old dogs. They had three but the other one was put down in Nov of last year. They are both Pom-Tsu's, and after I moved in my brother and I bought them a full Pom female who has just turned 9 months old.
I have three dogs myself, two short haired Chihuahua's and 1 long haired Chihuahua mix all between 1 and 1 1/2 years old. I have been living with them since April of 09, and so far they were getting along ok. Both the males would do their thing and basically seem to ingnore the other. The four females love to play with everybody.
Recently with in the last two to three weeks the two males have become very aggressive towards each other. My mom and I at first couldn't help but be in the middle of the fights because one dog would be in our laps and the other would attack, so we would be trying to push or whatever to get them off of us and to pull them apart from each other. Yes this was wrong as we have both suffered injuries, not bad ones, but a lot of bruises cuts and scratches.
We thought maybe it was my male trying to become my mothers dog and her male not liking it. When they went at it even when she wasn't home, we started thinking of what else it could be. We thought that maybe it was the newest female and that she was in heat. So we got her fixed and that was a few days ago. We were told it could take up to a month before they stop and that is if it was because of her being in heat. BOTH males are fixed.
We are now concerned that maybe it wasn't because of the 9 mo old so we got them both muzzles, and while the 7 year old walks around and acts like it's nothing, the 1 year old acts like he's embarrassed or that his spirit is broken. We tried putting one in a kennel for a few hours and letting the other run free, and then switching it up. But when the 1 year old was in his kennel the 7 year old would attack the kennel. When the 7 year old was in his kennel the 1 year old couldn't even walk past to the back door or the water bowl in the kitchen without the 7 year old barking and growling and charging the kennel door and causing the younger one to dart for his kennel. Even then with them both in their kennels locked up the 7 year old starts barking and then the 1 year old starts back. We have since had to move the 1 yr olds kennel into my room.
The muzzles seem to be working in keeping them from biting each other (and us) but does not keep the older one from trying to attack. The younger one again is already acting cowed down by the muzzle, until the older one attacks and then he attacks back in response. Occassionally, he will start growling but doesn't attack always. It's very rare that he starts it.
My move into my parents house is only suppose to be temporary until I can find a job where I can afford to move out on my own and take all three dogs with me. But until then, we are all at our wits ends as to what to do.
We won't get rid of any of the dogs! and we can't afford a behavioral specialist or a personal trainer. We also don't think it's fair to keep them in separate rooms when my parents and I like to spend time together and it ends up not being fair to one or the other of the dogs to keep them apart from us.
Please help.
Answer by jazper1028
I think what the problem is that there is to much going on around them and they are fighting for the attention the want bad attention is better then getting less attention and even if they are fixed they are both males and they both think that is their house so they dont want each other in their space being the 7 yr old is so aggressive that is because that was his house first with out a doubt your dog would be fine with the other one if he wasnt so aggressive so if you can spend a little more time with the 7 yr old and make him see that your dog isnt taking his spot and disipline him when he acts aggressive he might stop hope this helps
Answer by Cookie
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Answer by Samuel
Sounds like a nasty situation, the problem is the dogs need to obey each other and yourself and mother. Perhaps further training might help? Check out Kingdom of Pets Ebook on training your dog, its a great resource and has excellent reviews and pictures! Heres the link: http://bit.ly/7DV63E (Kingdom of pets)
Hope you get it sorted soon!
Sam
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