Fighting Weims

ErinAndBob · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: Fighting Weims

Hi,

We are new to the forum. I have been reading some of the posts and this site is great. We have two Weims. We adopted Blue about three years ago and he is now 7 years old. We got Sawyer as a pup and he is now 18 months old. They are both neutered. Every night around 5 the two of them start to fight and will not quit. Sawyer is constantly bitting at Blue and I don't think that Blue really wants to play along. Does anyone have any advice on how to make them stop. We get them plenty of exercise and this fighting is driving us crazy. They yelp and bark and knock over our furniture. We love the two of them but they are driving us nuts. It is strange that this only happens in the evening. They are fine all during the day and will even lay with each other. Any help would be greatly appriciated.[/img]

weimdawgs · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject:

I don't know why, but roughhousing must be more fun after dinner. Are they fighting for real or are they just being boys???

We have weimaraner wrestling every evening after dinner with the three younger dogs. If they get too out of hand, I will take them out in the yard for awhile. Let them wrestle out there.

We do occasionally have real fights, usually started by our 4 1/2 year old female with our 10 year old male. That is a show of dominance. We break that up and lay Silkie down. It's not necessary for her to prove her dominance..the boys know it.

ErinAndBob · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the reply. They seem to be just being boys but it can go on for hours. They will literally wrestle until midnight if we let them. We usually end up giving them some busy bones after a while to stop them.

weimdawgs · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:

The younger dog probably keeps it going. As he gets older,things should settle down. Young males are like bad teenagers from about 10 months to about 2.5 years. At least that has been our experience. Gunnar was two last September and the change in his personality the last few months has been pretty dramatic.

weim2mom · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

We get random spurts of it all day/night long.

jkashlak · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

weim2mom · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

nicwithcandy · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 12:12 pm Post subject:

I would just let the duke it out, that's usually the only thing that works, if their not seriously hurting each other, let them go. I know when I first got Luca (FYI, his name was Blue before we got him!) he constantly mounted Newman and I felt really bad because Newman is 9 and Luca isn't even 2 yet, anyways once I stopped getting involved and Newman went back him, he stopped.

thecollector · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 3:41 am Post subject: wrestle mania

we actually have a slight depression in the backyard which im contiually trying to fill and level off so the grass can grow BUT this area apparantly is the wei wrestle mania ring.
not every day but still regular we can watch a few playful rounds of wei wrestling,never gets out of hand that we have seen
cheers

ZaneTheBrain · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

2kids2weims · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

I was going to post on this too...3yr old male vs 18 month female rescue. She was ill & anxious when we got her & now is at full health & weight. She was submissive to the point of rolling over if anyone looked at her. He was dominant & dominates most other dogs at daycare & in dog park .

She is challenging him now, but she is sneaky - never tries to attack until he is vulnerable, for example, when he is lying down she'll sneak up & stand on him and try to hold him down with her neck or teeth. She never actually throws him down. She does not challenge him at daycare or the dog park.

She has always eased his toys away from him (which would provoke a fight with any other dog) but he would "tune her in" if she played too hard. Now she doesn't buckle under, fights & just looks away or scratches herself, like she's choosing to time out the fight, but no more Miss Belly Up.

She is not attempting to dominate us, but like you I'm sick of this guerilla warfare. Mostly I am distracting them when I see it developing & having them submit to me. I know not to support the underdog or the fighting will go on...I just want one or the other to be the clearly dominant dog & I'm having trouble telling as it is so mixed now.