Thanks tmatt, I beat myself up for a long time about that.
"You just cannot put dogs with a extremely high prey drive / pack mentality together and expect them to always get along or work out pecking orders while not becoming full on dog piles…..it just doesn’t happen that way and if does I want to hear it....culling true dog agression is one thing but not acessing the entire situation before doing it is another" (hogaholicswife)
Miss Ashley, good to see that you see what I have learned to see... excellent description... You, out of most people on this site, probably hunt the most similar type of dog to what I am working with, so I appreciate your input.
At any time, I still can turn out every dog I have together with anyone else's dogs and have no isssues... it is not dog aggression.
....Believe it or not, I actually had this last litter of puppys about kill one of their own at 4mnths old... I heard them baying their head off to find one dog singled out and, trust me, when I say they meant to kill him... DRIVE, genetically hard wired. Had to go through some hard knocks to really understand what that is... but I know now. Who knows what I will know in 20yrs... I may actually know somethin' by then
