fighting dogs help ASAP?

Question

ok so basically my dog kodi (just 4 years) who is always the nicest dog, never has growled or been bad has all of a sudden started to fight my other dog koal (almost 5 years) who usually is the one to growl but never has done anything...

they bark and snap and kodi fights him to the ground

when we get kodi to stop, koal will run away and start shaking... HES THAT SCARED

what should i do to make them stop???? what do u think is going on???

PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

Dominance. Thats what it is, and when you say stop. they should stop. I think kodi needs to calm the hell down. But he may not respect any one in the household. take Kodi and wrap a sock around his mouth so he cant open it, and stare into his eyes, if he looks away, we can fix this. If he stares back, and tries to snip, then he needs a beating ( im just kidding! dont do it!)
he more than likley will look away, if he does then he knows your the house momma.

So buy a choke chain and put it on Kodi, and light leash so where he can barley feel it, but you know you can get a good hell of a pull, and you may have to let him wear it for a week to get used to it, and becuase you never know when they are going to fight, and if they do its already on him. And when they fight, say NO! and scream it!!!! If Mr. Kodi dosent get the hell off when you say it the *FIRST TIME*, YANK LIKE YOU WILL NEVER YANK AGAIN!!!! but not to where your going to break his neck, and watch how you pull depending on the position of his head, which is probably down with poor koals head in it, pull Up, and Back at a straight angle . But if he still being a little badass take the other end of the eash, and whack him on the nose, bend over, and scream at him, say NO! bad boy! for about a minute just yell at him, and stare at him. try to make him cower. And if when their fighting, and you cant get him off, pull back with all your weight, and lean and just walk untill he cant get to him.

If this dosent work, you need to see a speacialist, or you can e-mail me. I train dobermans, and if you think your dogs fight bad, sweety you havent seen anything. I have had them since I was a baby, and I used to have to super glue their backs and faces togther, until we found an emergancy vet. So I know how to get them to stop, what I told you usually helps, but I have many many tricks up my sleeve. So you can e-mail me.

Answer 2

Your eldest dog is growing older and is being challenged by your younger dog. Dogs live in a pack hierarchy and continually challenge the dogs above them (including their humans) to see if they are "worthy" of leadership. Nature is not kind to the old or weak. In a dog's world, if the leader is not the strongest, bravest, smartest, etc., the pack will perish.
Kodi (the youngest) senses weakness in Koal and is making his move to replace him. Maybe it doesn't sound "nice" to a human but that's how dogs are programmed and nature knows about survival.

The best help I can give, is to tell you to let them sort it out amongst themselves. This is normal pack behavior. They have biological instincts that have allowed them to survive as a species for centuries. Mother nature knows best.

Trainer

Answer 3

Sounds like a fight for dominance to me. Koal has been showing is dominance for awhile and it sounds to me like Kodi has had enough and went after him.

Are both of them neutered? If not, you should have that done and that will take care of some of the agressiveness.

You need to be the pack leader and get into the middle of their fight and let both of them know that you do not approve. Grab one or both of them by the scruff of the neck and say in a very strong voice, no! Let them know that you as the pack leader of the house do not approve of their actions. If you assert your leadership, they will both calm down and get along.

Answer 4

First of all, did they grow up together? If not wich one did you get first? It could be a territory issue. The one may think he's the head of the house and keeping the other one in line. You may have to separate them. Also, you don't have a favorite do you? One could be jealous. Show them the same attention and love. Another though would be to put them in obedience classes together. Hope this helped.

Answer 5

If you figure out what is triggering the fighting (is one of them resource guarding? what resource is he guarding?) it's a lot easier to figure out how to fix the problem. I have two females who were fighting terribly but I figured out that I had let the original female think she was in charge of me, so I was the resource she was guarding. Once I established that she has no say over me or who gets to have attention from me things have smoothed out pretty well. There is still some occasional snarkiness but nothing like before.

Answer 6

Get a cage, ( cages for dogs) and put it in there and say NO!. This might be hard but leave kodi in that cage maybe for like 3 hours... or how ever you like... The dog will know that it is getting in trouble.. But i cant guarentee you... It only works on some dogs
Good luck :)

Answer 7

omg im soo sorry! thats so sad..
go to an animal behaviorist. or even a vet.
i do know the best way to seperate a dog fight is with water, i read it in a dog book. but hopefully, it wont get that far.

Answer 8

It's a dominance thing--Kodi probably needs a trip to the vet for neutering or both of them!

Answer 9

i'd crate the dog starting the fights everytime he starts a fight
so he knows theres punishment behind his actions kodi might be tired of koal threatening him he might be letting koal know that he aint gonna take it anymore but if you dont stop the fighting there gonna grow to hate each other so crate the one starting the fight till you think he's calmed down and wants to act right

Answer 10

its gonna sound mean but i you throw feezing cold water on them it should make them stop
or just smack em
water works better though
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