dog fights????help please - Page 1

I HAVE 2 MALE GERMAN SHEPHERD MALE DOGS THEY A FEW MONTHS APART  BUT THE 1 MALE IS BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN THE OTHER 1 THEY  2 AND HALF YEARS OLD AND THEY BEEN FIGHTING FROM 7MONTHS OLD BUT THE SMALLER 1 ALWAYS CRIED BEFORE THE FIGHT STARTED AND THE FIGHT WOULDNT BE AS BAD AS THE FIGHT THEY HAD TODAY..THE BIGGER MALE WAS MATING AT MY AUNTS PLACE AND HE WAS GONE FOR 2 WEEKS TODAY I BROUGHT HIM HOME AND THE FIGHT STARTED IT WAS BAD VERY BAD THOU BUT I NOTICED THE SMALLER SHEPHERD BEING MORE HAPPIER AND MORE HIMSELF OVER THE 2 WEEKS THE OTHER ONE WAS GONE AND ALSO VERY PROTECTIVE OVER HIS GROUNDS AND TODAY WHEN THE FIGHT STARTED THE SMALLER ONE ACTUALY FOUGHT BACK AND SHOWED NO FEAR TOWARDS THE BIGGER ONE HE DIDNT CRY ONCE NOR DID HE BACKOFF HE CAME OFF SECOND BEST BUT HE STOOD HIS GROUNDS AND ACTUALY SEND A MESSAGE TO BIGGER ONE THAT HE AINT SCARED THE PREVIOUS FIGHTS WAS NEVER THIS BAD BECAUSE IT WONT LAST LONG BECAUSE SMALLER ONE JUST CRIED AND NEVER FOUGHT BACK MY QUESTION IS WILL THIS BE A PROBLEM WILL THINGS GET WORSE THAN THIS PLEASE HELP ME PLEASE ADVISE ME HOW I SHOULD GO ABOUT THINGS THEY CALMED DOWN A BIT NOW BUT THE BIGGER ONE STILL SHOWS NO SIGNS OF PEACE AND HE ENCOURAGES A FIGHT EVERY FEW MINUTES .

Seriously? You can't figure out that the males that are intact will continue to fight and sooner or later one will be very seriously injured or killed?
Is this your first time owning a dog????
Fine a new home for one or both dogs if you can't afford to keep them seperated in kennels.
Nothing good will come from keeping them together.

This will never be fixed with your level of experience, I had my thumb amputated last year when two bitches of mine got together accidentally, my thumb was bitten off in a second, I then endured several hours surgery whilst awake as they amputated the rest.

One of these dog's needs to be in a kennel, one in the house, swap them about if needed, the trigger for fights can be as little as who gets to stand nearest you, food, toys, females, territory and excitement are all big triggers.

You or family could get seriously hurt, how do think either dog feels living in a constant state of anxiety knowing they could be attacked at any moment.

You need to seriously raise you game as a dog a owner.

NB; your little one hasn't suddenly got brave by standing up to the big one, these aren't children, he's in defence drive because he believes he may actually get killed!

Ronin

Absolute truth from Ronin. Take advice from experienced people. Two males don't belong in the same place at the same time. Nothing good will ever come from such a situation.

Very simple...If you can't control them together...

SEPARATE THEM!

What they said.

You'll never have peace and sounds like you don't have the experience to make it work.

And if you're not clear the bigger dogs goal is to kill the smaller one, which may or may not happen...

Listen to what everyone is telling you.  This is a problem and it will get worse.

yes i was considering to seperate them or actualy find home for 1 of them they both very precious to me but i cant see the 1 suffering like that and its first time they fight this bad and also first time i have two male dogs but i do know that if they fight to not try and break it up cs u can get hurt real bad so stay away and try from distance to stop it

thanx for advise really got to consider it and i also have a female dog with a male puppy that i planned on keeping will the pup life be in danger too?

If you need to ask that question after all this advice, then you are way out of your league.

What you are experiencing is something that will at some point almost always happen when you keep intact dogs of the same gender together. This will happen with intact males kept together and also with unstated females. I have been lucky and in my 15 years with GSDs I have only ever had one major altercation and it was between my females. I think part Of the reason we have been so lucky is because we have acergae and the dogs all have tons of room to be away from one another. It was about a year ago that my girls got into it and they were both in season at the time. Fortunately a firm OUT was enout to startle them and give a firm correction. This The only time they have come in to season together and it (fight) has never happened again, but I am sure it won't be the last time. It may not be these dogs again but I am sure we will run in to it again at some point.