I was just wondering. When will a male ussually start dominating his mother. I have a 9 month old that already decided he dosn't need to be concerned about corrections form his mother. They get in some pretty serious fights over objects of desire and he takes her down in a matter of minutes. This is a female that is used to being alpha with all the bitches and the 1 male I've had with her.

The male is feeling "his oats" and testing his "waters". Challenging for position in the pack.

I'd like to be able t see some of this behavior before giving any advice. But I,d watch the male very close to make sure he doesn't get to agressive.
Ron

He does harrass her alot. At first I thought she's getting what she deserves because she always did that to the other dogs in the house.

When I got her I had a three year old male. She used to harrass him alot. For example I would feed them both at the same time. She would sit 5 feet away from her bowl and let him finish his, and then wait for him to come and try to eat hers. Then she would run up to her bowl and growl to back him of. He always backed off. My impression was alway that she liked to provoke him.

When I would throw a ball with both of them out she would rather bite him than chase the ball. If it was just her she loved to play ball.

Now I am seeing the same behaviors in her son. She's always been the alpha dog in the house. I've had some pretty good fights in the house between her and a larger more muscular female I had in the house which ended in blood shed and vet bills once very 8 months or so. She always came out on top more because of her attitude than anything else.

So I thought if he got on her nerves enough she would just put him in his place. I first started to get the idea that that might not happen when she would get serious with him, growl, bare her teeth (basicly put on a good show) and he would stick his face in hers totally unimpressed at about 7 months. At about 8 months she escalated to warning bites on the neck and he responded by fighting back and taking her down to the grownd. Then there is a pause and he lets go and they separate slowly. This has happened two to three times now.

Neither has drawn blood. What I've basically been doing is watching them and if I feel he is harrassing her too much I put him in his cage for awile to give her some peace.

Sounds like you have a new top dog. Be careful that he doesn't hurt the female. I had the same problem only it was female dog picking on puppy. I finally said enough when she drew blood. Its my job as pack leader to protect the members of the pack. Separating them was not working (kids kept letting the dogs out). Puppy was to be my sports dog, so the female got a nice home with no other dogs. Shes happy as an only dog and he's happy not getting killed. I wish we could chat in real time. Hey Ed, you listening???

I don't know where I got the idea but I thought males ussually let the females be the boss.

Usually I think of males more standing there ground and being more defensive when females are being pushy I find it unique when a males goes on the offense and takes the fight to the female.But nothing is written in stone when dealing with dogs.