Please help my dog attacked another dog..

UKTigerlily

Hintza wrote: »

I think you are grabbing the wrong end of the stick here. Where we live (in the country) yoiu have many dogs, if its not the farm dogs then it can be motley collection gundogs and others many of whom have never met. Rules of the game state the had better get on and in most instances they do. But one dog will stick his nose to close to another and will be growled or snapped at. They soon learn their place.

On the odd ocassion you will get two dogs normally big dominant males who will be set on killing each other usually when one or both is on the lead. Hopefully a swift skelp also sorts that out.

If a dog remains aggressive it would not be very politic to keep bringing it.

But at the end of the day the dogs sort it out amongst themselves and then get on with the job in hand.

No one is advocating letting the dogs have a free for all. But dogs are are like children and need to learn to sort things out and get on with life.

Ah sorry I thought it was aimed at someone who's neighbour (Not on a farm) was wanting her Dogs to get on with it, my mistake! Was gonna say there's no way I could let mine just sort it out lol

UKTigerlily

I_am_mad wrote: »

i have never 'let' my dog attack another dog on purpose, both of the dogs are mine anyway, why have you started a conversation about this anyway?

As a response to this The trouble is they never let the dog out and they have never been intoduced so they are always aggresive towards each other. Our set up although slightly different is similar and as far as we are concerned all the dogs (3 families and 5 dogs) need to get on. They have their moments with a bit of growling and snarling but they sort it out. Just wish the neighbours with the cross would chill out I have already told them if their is a fight not to worry as we would expect them to pay to no avail.

To warn people it's NOT a good idea in general to let Dogs fight to sort their problems out, then someone said it was Dogs on a farm in the above case, I read it as in a non farm household

pboae

Lots of dogs learn how to pull down door handles, the answer is the same as baby proofing for toddlers, turn the handles round so that they have to be pulled upwards instead. Some dogs will still figure that out, but most won't.

Debt_Free_Chick

UKTigerlily wrote: »

Ah sorry I thought it was aimed at someone who's neighbour (Not on a farm) was wanting her Dogs to get on with it, my mistake! Was gonna say there's no way I could let mine just sort it out lol

Not sure if you're referring to me or not ... no I don't live on a farm, but I'm not sure of the relevance.

My neighbour has a dog that goes for all other dogs. We both walk our dogs down the fields at the rear of the house - off the lead, as it happens. If our dogs encounter eachother, neighbour's will go for mine. Mine will stand his ground.

What else should I do? If I put mine on the lead, he potentially cannot defend himself.