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Originally Posted by beach4me
Corgi #1 and #2 have always gotten along very well. Corgi #1 has always been boss and corgi #2 has never had a problem with it. She is submissive. However, every morning, when they are let out of their kennels. Corgi #2 kind of charges corgi#1. Likes nips her, barks at her and runs at her. Corgi #1 never participates and sometimes growls at her to back off. Well Corgi #2 always bounds out the door first and turns around to charge at Corgi #1 to the point, she does not want to go out.
At Christmas, my husband brought home a Chocolate Lab that was five years old. Very laid back and submissive. She has fit in fine. To have never been in contact with other dogs, she is doing great.
Now, Cori #1 and #2 are starting to get into fights. Corgi #1 is always snarling at her. Once I left all three in the backyard for a couple of hours and when I came home, Corgi #2 had a torn ear and blood everywhere. Corgi #1 had a cut on the mouth.
What am I going to do? All three are females and the lab has not been fixed yet. I know there has to be some reason behind all of this but what? I have never had three dogs and I can not and will not tolerate this fighting.
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I snipped some of your post.
First thing you do is go have all three spayed. Taking the hormones out of the mix should help.
As for the corgis, often once two corgi girls decide they don't like each other, that's it. IMO, I would NEVER leave them alone together without human supervision. They might learn to tolearate each other with humans around, but all bets are off once they are alone.
It sounds to me like corgi #2 is an omega dog. And corgi #1 is an alpha wanna be. (See my article "What is an Alpha Dog) under behavior I belive.
First thing I'd do is spay them all and then go from there.
Peggy