We have two Dobermans 5 years old that were from the same litter. (male and female) At about 8 months of age while in the backyard, they got into a pretty strong fight which involved my female going to the vet to get sowed up in several places and treated for several puncture wounds. To make a long story short, over the past five years, they have gotten into 5 good fights. All occuring outside and involving vet trips until this past weekend when one broke out inside while we were away and had a housesitter there with them. This put me to the edge. How do two dogs who seem to love each other so much all of a sudden tear into each other like they do. So when we got home from our weekend trip and took the female to the er vet to get once again fixed up, we finally said enough is enough. This is not fair to the dogs or to us. My husband owns his own business so our solution was this: Female is our house dog and our male stays at my husband's office. Female is alone during day while we work and Male is alone at night when we are home. However, the male gets attention from husband and workers all day which is 8-10 hours a day and our female gets attention from when we get home until the next morning when we leave. I feel bad for our male who is having to adapt to a new life, but really, he sees my hussband now more than before. Is this a good decision?????? I would love any and all advise!

Doesn't sound like too much of a bad decision to me. Perhaps the mistake you made was letting the fights occur 5 times..the second time should have shown that the behaviour had the potential to repeat itself. Another idea is to build separate runs or kennels for your dogs so that they are separated when you are not there to supervise - I don't think you specified when the fights are occuring but they are probably more likely to do it when you're not there to act as the boss and say that fighting is not acceptable - another solution is that the female is the house dog and the male stays outside. But don't feel bad for having to separate them - this type of thing is not at all uncommon. Lots of people will have gone through the same thing so as the offspring once said you gotta keep em separated!