This conversation makes me laugh as I have owned two fox terriers together for years and years. Oh my, the fights we had. The first one was over a toy, others were over a dropped
piece of food usually. Other than the fact that they could never share food or toys, they loved each other to death. Terriers are their own special people, that's for sure. We just learned to always avoid situations where they were competing over food, toys or affection. Anyone who thinks they will *work it out* in a fight is crazy. Yeah, maybe when one of them is dead! Good luck. What kind of terriers are they?
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All I will add is: if you can't find or don't have the time to devote to properly correcting the problems with these dogs that YOU created....then my suggestion would be, in all fairness to the dogs, to rehome one of them.
Also they have this jealousy thing going on. When there is some perceived advantage the other dog has a fit. Is this a part of the issue above or something else and how do I deal with it.
Sounds like a dog that wants what it wants when it wants it. Not jealousy.
Maybe they are getting a little reinforcement in these areas somehow.
when they were together prior to Leerburg we made many mistakes. One of them was we had toys readily accessible for them in a bin. So he would pick a toy and go play. Even though she would have one in her mouth she just had to have the one he was playing with. Basically she had to have whatever he picked up and would do anything to get it. This was playful most of the time but there was some growling going on too and he actually lashed out at her several times. Did not hurt her but was upset. She would do this on and on until he was really sick and tired of her and all he wanted to do was to be away from her. She would place her head on his shoulder and then try to climb up on him. None of this will EVER happen again, of course. I have to say I tried really hard to find help and tried everyone local who was in the phone book to no avail. Then I found Leerburg. So now I know how foolish this was and I am trying to fix it.
Someone else in another post talked about allowing dog/dog bond instead of human/dog by letting the dogs be together before they are two years old. I did not realize that that was a potential problem that might need to be corrected and wanted to know how to correct it.
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