Sacha and Bob are the same age- 7 months- and lately Sacha has started to chase Bob off if we are petting him. She's very forceful about it, usually heading him off is he's running toward either of us, and running up, quickly grabbing and releasing the back of his neck and backing him up. Then it shifted back into playing, with her doing a bow and running so he would chase her. (FWIW, he did this with her in the past.)
This happened tonight.
In addition to the 2 of them got into a quarrel that frightened me. They both have soft mouths, but it went from playing to fighting fairly quickly. A lot of noise and some slobber. Then they stopped, and started to quarrel again about 3 minutes later. At that point I decided to tether one to me and one to my husband, and we just calmly sat at opposite ends of the veranda.
We train them, walk them, play with them, and use positive techniques.
Today I was unsettled by the quarrel and by her bossing him around twice. Maybe I'm misreading the behavior?
Please help! I've learned a lot off this forum, but I'm still very new to caring for puppies.
This happened tonight.
In addition to the 2 of them got into a quarrel that frightened me. They both have soft mouths, but it went from playing to fighting fairly quickly. A lot of noise and some slobber. Then they stopped, and started to quarrel again about 3 minutes later. At that point I decided to tether one to me and one to my husband, and we just calmly sat at opposite ends of the veranda.
We train them, walk them, play with them, and use positive techniques.
Today I was unsettled by the quarrel and by her bossing him around twice. Maybe I'm misreading the behavior?
Please help! I've learned a lot off this forum, but I'm still very new to caring for puppies.