Hello everyone.. I hope I'm not repeating a question but I have 3 very small daughters (3, 1 and 4 ms old) and don't have a lot of time to sit online reading.. I hope you understand.

Any ways, I hope somebody would help us figure out what to do.. First let me tell you, We adopted a boxer, female back when she was 9 wks old.. She has been a great dog, never showing aggression to anyone but strangers and there are some strangers she likes right off the bat but others she really does not like.. ex; my sister and 1 of her sons. She likes her other son and daughter. She's a great dog, Pretty OB, very loving to us all.. Any ways, about 5 ms ago we brought in another pup, yes a female, ugh! We have a 7 ms old Show Bulldog (english) any ways, they play great outside when nobody is out there with them but once you get them around my husband or myself in lets say the kitchen (no food involved, just us) they always go at it!! I cannot tell if they would kill the other.. I almost think it is mostly just vocal because no teeth show or bite.. They just try to flip the other over, hold them down and growl. I'm afraid somebody is going to hurt the other.. I know you are going to say to keep them seperated but is there anyway I can train them not to try fighting when around us.. I def. do not let these two together around my young girls for fear they will fight around them and they don't care who is in there way.. I normally end up throwing something at them to seperate them because yelling obviously does nothing.. I love them both very much. As it is most of the time the pup sleeps indoors and Sashes, boxer, has a crate on the back side of our home (indoors) I know she see's the bulldog being "spoiled" so to speak because she is a show dog and we take her to shows, train her, and being a bulldog they can have heat stroke in 70 degree weather so we have to always keep her indoors.. We'd love for Sashes to be indoors as well but they will fight if we go in the kitchen. Any tips? We'd like to love on them both and not leave anyone feeling out but they always fight, it is like they are fighting over us.. They don't want the other dog around us.. Please, tips..

Thank you soooo much in advance!

Ps. Oh, we also got the english bulldog when she was 8 wks old. So, we had them both from puppies. Sashes is now 22 ms old and Mojo is 7 ms old.

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Your going to love one of the two dogs to death. Two females/males quite often don't mix well. Sounds like yours are tyring to figure out who's boss. It will probably get worse if you don't separate them. Others may have different advice.

Hi, I think you did a great thing comming here for answers. You have a huge problem waiting to happen. I too am a mommy with 4 children under 8 years old. I also am a dog trainer that works with problem dogs, most often from aggression. Sooooo many of my clients wouldnt need my services if they had gotten the proper information in time. Since you have small children you must take proper action before one of them loses a face. It may seem like I am over reacting, but because of the age of the dogs, (one is entering maturity) and the fact thet you have 2 of the same sex, you have set yourself up for major dominance problems if you don't handle it right. I of all people understand the time thing. my kid's ages are 7, 5.5, 4.5, 1.5 years old. What I do is print out the information, yes it takes alot of paper but you can take it with you, instead of having to sit there in front of the computer. Ed Frawley has written several wonderfull artickes dealing wthe the problems you are having. I make my clients read them as home work. Also get his basic obedience video again my clients get this and it is excellent. Your kids faces are worth the 40.00. The articles you need most are:
dealing with the Dominant Dog
My Dog is Dog Aggressive. How Can I stop this?
Dog Fights and Questions on Dogs that are Animal Aggressive
How to Deal with the Overly Aggressive Dog
How to Break Up a Dog Fight Without Getting Hurt

Read the one on dominance first. Print it out and you can read it as you go. It will give you a lot of answers and some specific steps to take. fell free to pm me for my # if you have any questions

Until you finish your reading and training to train the dogs.

I'd keep the a lead on the boxer and the bull dog. I see a pack order problem here that they are trying to work out because of living arrangiment.

The Boxer feels its alpha and she sees the Bull dog being treated like he is. I'd help set the order with feeding the boxer 1st, letting her go through the door after you, letting her off leash 1st or only when you are outside maybe even inside. That way your precious Bull dog is kept close and you can step in front of/or command away the Boxer if she starts any aggressive movement. If the Bull dog tries anything you can stop him immmedately.

These actions don't mean much to you, but it means order to the dogs, help them out.

Read those article mentioned above until then try to keep them seperate or on leash.

Don't let the kids have the lead thinking they can stop the two dogs from fighting. Have the kids only around one dog at a time, perferrably he boxer. Superivised by an adult.