Pet Pat Fighting

[suda 7]

Hi, can anyone advise me on my problem, We have a 5year old pat bitch we rescued as a pup so kept only as a pet, we also have 2 other x bred terriers, she had her first fight with the dog when she was around 12 months, since then she has attacked the other 2 every chance she gets,

she is kept seperated by housing in a cage in the kitchen, she get plenty of exercise walking, garden going out daily in the car if anything she is a very spoilt pet, my mum let her out this morning and she got the other bitch big fight! my poor mum who's in her seventies had to go to A&E.

My dad is now saying the only way to stop futher injury is to have her put down.

Can anyone help me ? please !

 

[ratpackjack 272]

The problem is in the question pal .....she is a very spoilt pet.......just my thought in it but if she is spoilt and thinks she is above the others this will happen buddy,my terriers squabble but not one is treated diff than the others as if i did i know i would have problems.

[ratpackjack 272]

As how to solve it i think you will have your work cut out with a patt of this age,not saying it cant be done as i am sure it could but it will take time and dose she live with your mum and dad on their own? as i think this problem may require a younger hand as if they get scrapping 3 terriers intent of murdering one another can be hard work to break up.

[suda 7]

I know it sounds like were novice dog owners, far from it we've had dogs all our lives, but never a Pat, she was treated just the same as the other 2 until she wanted to be the alpha female of the pack, that's when she had to be kept apart. I live at home with my parents and keep the dogs seperated, the problem is when I'm not around

and she get loose, she goes to the first dog she can.

[cammy12 176]

if you havnt got the time to keep them seperate or to work on the problem then maybe your old fella is right if my mam ended up in a&e because of one my dogs then it would be curtains for the dog end of.

did it bite your mam trying to seperate them?

[suda 7]

yes, she was trying to part them and that's when she got the brunt of it, she is kept seperate and we have time to sort the trouble out!

But how ?

I do thank you for your replys

[leegreen 2,151]

Spoiled, unworked Patterdale (is it worked?). Sounds like just like you have explained and at five years old, I can't see much hope for harmony.

 

Maybe rehoming it, or dare I say pts.

Sorry buddy.

Edited March 23, 2013 by leegreen

[Bigchopper 36]

Do you know anyone with another dog to put her in her place with the other dogs there knock her confidence slightly she'll most likely always be dominant but just a thought. I like the sound of the feisty little bitch. ATB tho.

[blackmaggie 3,376]

i think its unfair to expect your mum whos in her seventies to be splitting terriers up when your not around its not going to get any better one way or another it either goes in a secure pen or rehome it with no other pets or pts and if it bit my old lass it would of been pts straight away atb in whatever you choose

[suda 7]

I already knew that my only way to solve this problem is pts as she is nervy with people, so she is not a dog that could be rehomed, I was just hoping that there maybe a cure

she acts like a perfect dog when she's out at shows no aggression at all with other dogs, it's only at home that's the problem if a stronger dog came in who was looking for trouble she would likley go in a corner and hide.

many thanks for all your thoughts

[Blaise 2,321]

According to me, she isn't dominant but jealous. It's worse.

[bobby blackheart 1,209]

had the same problem with a bitch and her dam/sire/sisters you name it-the only 1 we ever kept as a pet-put up with it for 5yrs-it wont get better trust me-this bitch for some reason would make all my dogs fight,even the ones that had always been kennelled together-had to have every dog in separate runs not cheap-bitch been gone 2yrs and i havent heard so much as a growl from any of the others-the day she went the shit stopped i kid you not-once 2 terriers take a disliking for each other they dont stop-atb

[whippet 99 2,613]

think this is a bit of a problem when people take in dogs for rehoming ..........not knowing what they were bred for ,......

i know it may have to pass tests to be rehomed ,............but working dogs and working breeds sometimes need to do what they were bred for ............

im not saying this is the answer too this question but in generally speaking........

any two dogs mayfight ..........but some are highly strung if bred for work and mentally and physically need entertaining

if you cant keep two apart for the rest of there lifes then one will have to go.....simple

[digger. 615]

give it to a working home give it a chance at that it might go on to live a happy life with someone else who no,s but its not suited were it is

[richc12 84]

try kennel and run..then theres no need to have her running free, or locked in a cage.... simples