dogs fighting

[superthink]

my 2 jacks are fighting and cant stop them i dont wont to keep them apart but it look like i might have to as i cant let them play as it end in a big fight at the min as soon as it looks like a fight is coming i put muzzals on them

[Postdog]

Years ago we had 2 dogs (both bitches) who hated each other, or to be accurate, one hated the other. We had to keep them apart all their lives.

[lankeela]

Surely it would be better for you and the dogs to find a home for one. To condemn a dog to a life wearing a muzzle is cruel and unnecessary.

[Annlinda]

If you have 2 Jack Russells that fight you will NEVER ever stop them. Rehoming one of them is the only sensible solution. I have owned JR's for over 40 years and have had to rehome a bitch once she was fine once she lived in a home where she was the only dog but put her in with other dogs she was a killer.

[superthink]

i am looking for a new home for one as i dont like muzzals but it only on for 5 mins and then it off they are fine for 23,1/2 hrs of the day and some days i have no problems

[fredpuli47]

Do they hurt each other much, or are any injuries trivial? Are they friends again within moments of the fight ending? Some dogs living together seem to think nothing of the occasional short scrap; in fact they seem almost to enjoy it! Some humans living in the same house have loud arguments,even physical fights, particularly if they are related, but are soon friends again afterwards.Dogs are no different.Here we have five bitches who are sisters plus their mother.Our lot get into fights with each other all the time, sometimes one on one, sometimes involving several joining in.There's a lot of noise and the scrap looks dramatic,there are sometimes minor injuries,but within minutes of the fight ending they calm down and are as friendly as before.

You can get the same with dogs who are not related, more,perhaps, with some breeds than others (I defy anyone to keep Hungarian Pulis that don't squabble and scrap!)

The real problem is where you have one dog who is the troublemaker.This may be your problem.That dog will repeatedly either set upon or make to fight the other,'getting the other going', so a fight starts.Commonly the troublemaker has been raised as 'an only dog', for example as the one pet in one household, and never adjusts to being in a house where another dog gets attention.We had a tiny papillon who'd been a lapdog elsewhere.He picked fights, or tried to pick fights, with every other dog we had, sometimes provoking them into exasperated combat.He didn't care what size or how tough they were, they were all his target, and he always lost, but that never stopped him.The only answer was to segregate him: we finally gave him away, for his own safety, because he was heading for being killed one day (and then peace was restored)

[superthink]

Yes they are friends again after but it might take a couple of hour. ten mins after they are a sleep together but one has only got to move and it will kick of again but then all of a sudden they are play fine but by this time i am on tender hook the wounds are small but it scare me and up set me as i love them to bits

[justmetoo]

I have a similar problem, I have a pregnant bitch who attacks my non pregnant bitch at every oppotunity, only happened since shes been pregnant, started off growling but now its full on war, Im scared they will kill each other, They cant be in the same room together, nor can they be walked together

[cherrypoker]

Are they both males?
If they are you could get them castrated as they will be fighting to be the dominant one.
If they are of the opposite sex then i would place one with another family as you'll find it very difficult to stop it.

Good luckxx