let me give you a warning, immediately.
This same situation has happened to my Sophie, but she was the victim.
However, she would sometimes be the instigator and start the fights.
It's always with my other female, and it didn't start until after Sophie went into heat.
They always would get into random fights, a lot of times drawing blood.
My mother and I bought muzzles, because apart from spaying the two (which we are currently in the process of doing.) it was all we could do to fix the problem. And it worked, but only a temporary solution as the muzzles seemed so mean for the dogs. There was a long time when they stopped, which I though they had just "outgrown" it, but then the jealousy issues. I couldn't pick one u, pet one, or lay next to one without the other getting obviously jealous and attacking. Instead of getting better, it was just getting worse. Luckily, there had been no serious injuries. It was scary more than anything. I knew my other female (she is a sheltie, and really - the sweetest dog ever) wasn't trying to kill her, just protect herself.
Well one day when i got home (and i still continue to blame myself for this) i picked up sophie immediately. it had been over a day since I saw her, and i missed her terribly. When I put her down, the fight started again. We got very good at pulling the two apart in time, but we weren't so lucky this time. In the process (to make a long story short.) Sophie's eye was bulging, and unable to be pushed back into the socket, which only left one option -- remove the eye. We went from having no injuries from fights, to this very serious one. We are trying to get the females spayed, and pray it works, because i love both of my dogs. (although i still hold a grudge to my sheltie for doing it to my baby..) and i would hate to see the sheltie get rehomed.
and just in case anyone was curious, Sophie is 10 pounds and my sheltie is about 20. So there wasn't that much difference between the two. |