Me and my friend have brothers and when we go for walks in lead they are fine but when they off lead all the do is fight it sounds nasty and mine always seems to be the one that gets pinned. He crys but his brother doesn't always let go. Worried as they are getting bigger now and don't want mine getting hurt. Any advice or ideas in how to stop This? Thank you
Hi, how old are the pups? In my experience two (particularly male) dogs of the same age and size will often play fight to try to work out who is the stronger, and sometimes this can escalate to real fighting. Sounds like your two are on the edge here, and I would not allow them to carry on with it as one of them will end up getting hurt. You may have to let them off the lead one at a time, or else walk separately until they learn to tolerate being near each other without fighting. One idea would be to take them both to a group obedience or gundog class, where they would learn to be together without this wrestling and fighting.
They are 7months now. Mine has had a few grazes but his black so can't always see blood. They had puppy classes together. We are hoping that once they get done they will calm down and not fight. Fingers crossed. We are taking them back to puppy class when it's available next. Thank you
It's tricky, because you want them to be friends when they get older, so they need to socialize now. The puppy classes are great, and as I said I would take them for on-lead walks together. Good luck!
For now I would keep one on the long line when you are out, in turns. Then you have control of the situation. Twiglet was like this with her brother, Rossi - she really went for him, even when they were 8 weeks old . I don’t know if it was something which happened in the litter which made her like this. They were twelve months old before we could walk them together ‘normally’. .
I have litter mates and a friend of ours in the same village has another from the same litter. My two (Willow and Shadow) have always played rough, but it was appropriate. When we walked with their sister, Annie, it often escalated above what I was comfortable with - Shadow and Annie would end up bullying Willow. In this situation, I would put the two yellows on lead and let Willow stay loose. Once the yellows had calmed down, I would let them all off lead again. It was just over-exuberance that was spilling over into inappropriate play, there was nothing malicious about it, but waiting until the arousal had lowered really helped. Now they are able to walk and play nicely together.
