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Originally Posted by LadyMischief
You gotta step in that's a dominance fight unless you make yourself the boss over them they will keep fighting. Dogs only try to take dominance if they don't see anyone else filling the role, and ESPECIALLY with Rotties you have to FIRMLY establish your leadership every second of the day.
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I'm going to have to disagree. This is a common misconception. You see dogs are not retarded, they know you're not a dog. You can be as dominate as you want towards them and it won't change how they act towards each other.
Sometimes, when you have dogs of the same sex together, they can't figure out a dominate order amongst themselves. In my case, the younger dog wants to be the alpha female, and the older dog isn't going to give up without a fight. This happens less often with males as they seem to be better at working out who's in charge through rough play and "competitions". When it happens with two females, called bitch fighting, it's almost always worse. The dogs will fight until one is killed and there's very, very little that can be done to modify this behavior.
All three of my dogs will down, out, sit, stay, come on command without hesitation. They know who's boss, they're righting over who's #2.