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Originally Posted by 4doggiemama  I'll bump this for you. I don't claim to have any training skills.
Just have one question. Does the male soil his crate when he is alone in there after you remove the female? If not, I would crate them separately at the beginning rather than wait until the female squeals. Of course they know you are coming so I guess I wouldn't necessarily think that nothing had happened even though they are looking innocent. IMO, if she is on her back then there is definitely a dominance issue going on. You might possibly look into obedience training. I don't crate any of mine at night. We have all four with us, but then we also have a king size bed.  I hope you can come up with some solution. If you want to re-post, you might want to put it in the "training" section. Good luck. Joanne |
Yes, I guess I should have mentioned the MAIN issue with the two of them is that neither are house-trained! Ugh! So...I can't let them run free in the house. And, yes, the male was soiling himself in the crate, when separated from the female (at night), but he seems to be getting over that somewhat. (I hope!)
They are not in the crate all day. I take them outside frequently and they run in the backyard a lot, and I take turns taking them around inside the house under supervision, but there are times throughout the day that I crate them together, like during "chew time", for example.
I have already posted some of this on the training forum, but since these are rescues, I thought some of you might be able to add something to the aggression issue.
My guess is, that the rescue group was probably not even aware this was going on because no one was there at night with them.
I should also mention they have not had a fair trial. I got them 4 weeks after my 25 year old son went to Heaven, so, part of the time, I haven't felt like taking the time to train them as I would otherwise. In addition, my father-in-law went to Heaven and we had to go out of state to his funeral and were gone for an entire week, right after we got them!
There HAS been improvement, but still a long way to go. However, I don't want to keep two dogs if one has aggressive behaviors toward the other. Someone mentioned obedience training, and I have considered that, but I don't think I can muster up the strength or time for more appointments in my life right now. I'm living one second at a time.
I just wanted to know if any of you have encountered similar problems with rescues that came as a "bonded" pair.