Do your dogs fight?

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They have fought before, they have had mini fights before because of resource guarding. They can share toys but Sunny can be a prick because he doesn't like to share at times.

Food of course can cause some conflict but I'm careful with food, with some food they can eat near each ether.

Serenity is the one who can cause fights in my room. She likes to randomly guard things in my room and I've had a few close calls because of her.

So, they haven't had a full full out fight, not like Sunny and my previous dog did. They have had mini fights here and there. I don't worry about them fighting because they do ether stop themselves or I can easily intervene. They both are pretty soft/don't weigh a lot so they are easy to grab/pick up/to tell off.

I hope they stay pretty much friends till the day one of them dies. I'm lucky mine mingle so well and are so easy to pull apart/stop from fighting. My two also warn each other, a lot! There is A LOT of teeth/growling so I normally have enough time to yell at them to knock it off.

So tolerant
 

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we've had harmless squabbles here, nothing serious.However..Lilly and Courtney HATE each other, we've tried and tried and these two girls just can't get along :(
 

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Nog will snark at others (dogs only) over food. All noise though. But, we're still careful.

We're still careful with Aesop and Nog. They've been out and about with no issue, but if anything is overly stimulating, Aesop reverts to butt biting. :rolleyes:
 

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Yes....Beau is a scrapper and doesn't take crap from anybody. He's covered in scars from his fights with coons, dogs, foxes, a coyote once. He used to try to kill my Westie ALL the time and we had to have them on crate and rotate to the point they were NOT allowed to see each other.

Him and Takoda have fought twice and he tore her leg up both times. Now that he's older, he's settled down a lot, but you can still see the love of good fight in his eyes. He's a hunting dog and he lives for it. So much for laid back Beagles.....
 

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The most my boys do with each other is get a little snarky. Well, Gavroche gets snarky. Logan assumes he's just playing :rolleyes: Nothing serious ever, which surprises the crap out of me, since Gavroche tends to be a bit of an asshole. Logan used to start **** with his dad and brothers (I saw him do it, even), but since he's been here he's never tried that with any of the dogs he's been around, not even posturing.
 
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Never. Eevee put Shippo in his place in the very beginning (nobody was hurt) and there's never been a real fight. They growl at each other sometimes and Eevee has snapped at Shippo for being a douche, but I've always let them works things out on their own and it's complete peace. =)
 

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LoLa and Judge have gotten into one serious fight. The stupid bitch started it cause she could. I seperated them, gave them both a good what for and that was that. There is no fighting allowed here, period.
 

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Obviously no as I only have one dog but yes when I had multiples. Spanky and Bandit did scrap A LOT. They would get into awful fights and redirect aggression on to anyone splitting them up except me. It was ultimately why Spanky found a new home. I was ill and I could not keep up with the crate and rotate situation of two high needs young BCs with no help. Adding another dog scares me senseless because of my experience with it.
 

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Ozzy and Knox can sit down and watch a PG13 movie together, but anything more exciting and they get growly. Ozzy is a jerk about fighting, and it definitely takes two people to break it up. Knox doesn't start it, but he does go "oh yeah, punk?!" which absolutely lauches Oz. So we keep a close eye on them outside of the house. Inside, they get told to knock it off and sent to their crates for anything more than a disagreement. Guarding either me or DH or a place to lay gets them removed. They're allowed to tell each other to bugger off over bones they're actively chewing on, but they typically are sneak theives about those lol.
 

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Occasionally. Mac and Quinn are totally seperate now but I do think this could be worked through - my sister is so paranoid she won't give it a chance though.

The other three have all had various scuffles, usually caused by Quinn guarding food or hasn't been excercised enough and is too on edge and starts something. Jam enough food and excercise into her and the whole household is pretty harmonious.
 

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Yes. Never very serious and *touch wood* I've always been able to break it up myself. The main fights are between Tika and Scamp and Fudge and Scamp. Scamp occassionally attacks Taz and Diesel but they never respond. See the pattern?

Fudge goes after Ozzy and Diesel quite a bit but he's kept seperated from Ozzy most of the time and Diesels a little snot who won't leave him alone. About once a year Fudge and Taz get into it and that's the most serious fight we have at the moment.

I'm predicting that Tika will try to murder Aura losses her puppy license so their interactions are closely monitored.
 

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Tito and Skye never fought. She was an old lady when he came in as a rambunctious pup though and she used to clip him round the ear when he got too rowdy. When he got older they used to playfight and he'd let her beat him up. They both had a ball and now he misses her as much as I do.

I'll have to find some video of the two of them doing it. Non-doggy people would think there was murder afoot. lol
 

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Luce and Mushroom have gotten into it a few times in the past, but it's been years.

I do have some tension between Mushroom and Steve, but it's never flared into anything more than occasionally stink eye and growls. Hopefully Bean won't cause social upheaval as he grows.
 

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I once had a near fight (over a piece of lemon dropped on the floor of all things!!) Abby got there first, Grace wandered over to investigate and Abby decided that she wanted the lemon. Lip curled and snarked (no contact as far as I could tell) and then Grace just burred up and roared (also no contact). It was over before I could even think about what to do.

Grace is quite an easy going dog and tolerates the occasional snark from Abby, mostly whilst playing if things get a little rough. Abby can also be a resource guarder and we take steps to avoid this as much as possible. On this particular day, Grace decided that she wasn't putting up with Abby's reaction on this occasion.

No contact fights as yet. I do remember my childhood dogs having one snark over a piece of toast. At the time I thought they were going to kill each other (the noise!!), but truth be told, I don't think they even made contact. It was just all noise and spit and my mum managed to get them apart by clapping her hands. So... umm... not a big fight at all. That's the extent of my experiences with dog fights.
 

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We haven't had a fight since early March. *knock on wood* And that was caused by sheer stupidity on my part. My girls used to fight over who gave who the stink eye. We are finally (after 7 months of behavior work) at the point where they are out together 90% of the time with no problems. We can even have people ring the doorbell or knock on the door without a problem and that used to be a major trigger. (And ftr Murphy doesn't fight - he breaks up fights like a boss though.)

The thought of a permanent future dog coming in and fscking things up scares me. >.<
 

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No, thank heavens. I got lucky - Meg certainly has some dog issues, but I did my best to get a second dog that fit into her scheme of "what is okay", and it worked. She will occasionally snark at him if she is cuddling me or chewing on a toy and he decides he needs to take part. There's never been any contact, and Gusto thinks it is funny. He's one of those great dogs who just doesn't give other dogs anything to bounce aggression off of.
 

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We haven't had a serious fight between the two in quite a while. Typically it was caused by Ivan in some way. Ivan and Peewee will occasionally snark at each other. Usually because Ivan is bugging the snot out of Peewee and he doesn't know when to stop. I will let Peewee snarl and growl at Ivan, and then I step in and make Ivan back off. At Peewees age its not fair to expect him to put up with obnoxious Ivan. I let Peewee initiate the I've had enough and then step in.
 

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