Dane Chick

I can see what your saying about dominance Haven. Bailey tends to draw blood when she attacks Mally. So after I tell her off, I generally pick Mally up to check where he's bleeding and how bad. Also checking to see if it's a surface wound that I can patch up, or one that requires Vet attention. She's getting better with him now. Not attacking him as much. I have started feeding them their dinner seperately, with him in the Laundry and her in the puppy pen, and they now no longer sleep together, as these are the times when she's at her worst.

Ok. I've solved the imediate problem. I now feed Mally in the laundry so Bailey wont attempt murder. Now I only need to catch her as she's attacking him in the yard, It's not happening as frequently now. Progress, in small steps???

I bred the 2 adults as well Sidoney, and they were never anything like Bailey. Dominance is something i've never had a problem with. I stop it before it gets to this stage, but Bailey just seems to have more determination than her mother and uncle ever did. Thanks for the link, I'll look at it now. :cool:

Bailey is fine with the adults, and the only time the adults fight is when left unsupervised to eat (which happens so rarely it's really not worth mentioning), so I know it's not behaviour being learnt off them. I have tried locking Mally in the puppy pen, but he then spends the day screaming to get out. I think Mally's problem also comes from believing that he is a human, not a dog, as this is the way we raised him, at the time not realising it as we do now!!!! Mally is learning just to stay out of Baileys way during the day, but I would prefer that she loose some of her dominance, so she will be able to interact with other dogs at shows etc... without feeling the need to be boss. I guess I need to know how to nip this severe dominance in the bud, before she is a 60 something kilo dog agressive beast. I can and will teach her basic manners like drop, stay, sit etc. Hopefully this will help.

If using rescue remedy with the dropped, put the drops directly onto the tongue, Natrapath says it helps it go into the system faster. For relaxation, I've also used Valerian, in the liquid form for Summer. She gets anxious in the show ring. Again, just apply to the tongue.

Can't because the adults are standing outside the pen. I guess at worst, I can feed Malcom in the Laundry, and leave him there until the adults are finished eating. But that doesn't stop her from bashing him in the yard during the day. :cool: Bailey is just such a little Turd Burger. :D

Ok, Bailey and Malcom are out of the same litter, but they were raised apart, due to Mally needing to be bottle fed. Every time I tried to put him back into the litter, his body temp would rapidly drop, so back in front of the heater and back onto the bottle he would go. Now at 11 weeks, Mally and Bailey are the only ones left here, as we are keeping both. Our problem is that Bailey is such a dominant bitch that at feeding time, I have to literally stand between their bowls, as Bailey guts' hers down, then tries to bash Mally for his dinner too. This isn't too big an issue, as I'm in the puppy pen with them, so I can stop her from eating his meal on him. The problem is when I leave them in the puppy pen so I can feed the adults. Bailey waits until I have put the dinner bowls down for the adults, gets pissed off that she's locked away and can't help them eat theirs, so she then turn around to go find Mally in the pen, to bash him up instead. Yesterday she bit a small hole in his head, now he's on anti~biotics to make sure there it's not going to get infected, and tonight she pierced his ear. Is this dominance because Mally is the runt of the litter, and Bailey was one of the biggest (She's nearly double his size now), or is it because I waited so long to re~introduce him back to the litter? It's not only dinner time that she bashes him. If he's standing or sitting where she wants to be, she bashes him then too, to make him move out of her way. Dinner time is just when she bashes him to cause injury, as she is aware that I can't help him when I'm feeding the adults, because if left unattended whilst eating, they swap bowls, and then fight if some one finishes before the other. Any one got any ideas on how to stop Bailey bashing Malcom up? She's just so nasty to him at the moment. :cool:

Become an angel in heaven "Mia" Thinking of you and your sad loss Mjosa. Chicky.

It's so nice to hear that i'm not the only crazy person. I now have 4 rosewood boxes in my lounge room. The first one was done in 1992 and has moved to 3 differant houses with us, and the last one was done two weeks before christmas. All of you other people are so much braver than me though, A good friend of mine is a vet nurse at my clinic, so she comes and picks my babies up for me to take back to work with her, and she holds their paw for me as they "go to sleep", otherwise I just keep getting them "repaired", because I just can't let go of my babies. I still cry over each and every baby in my lounge room, when the need arises eg. aniversaries, birthdays etc.