In all situations in which I have seen this sort of in pack fight, or dog attacking a weakness or strangeness in another, the other dogs do pile in and with respect to the poster of the other thread, we don't know that the other dogs were not involved in that case either... One dog was covered in blood. But that doesn't mean that the other dogs had not got hold of the back or legs and just avoided getting as bloody.

I have seen this sort of attack numerous times both in my own pack and on the field among other dogs. To be honest I find it surprising that someone with a multi dog household and as normally so understanding about dog behaviour as yourself has not. I'm not a dog expert, maybe its something more common with the more primal breeds like huskies and greyhounds... Maybe it's more a big dog thing.. Or maybe there is some aspect of your training and the way you run your pack that means you have never seen it in your dogs.

The situation in the other post, though desperately tragic is genuinely something that could happen to any of us, and probably does more often than is reported... I will hold my hand up and say that I have witnessed two of my dogs attack another member of the pack in a way that may well have been to the death if I had not intervened, or if I had not been there, and yet I sit here now with them all curled up together, none of them hated, none of them destroyed.

In the situation we had ALL the dogs piled in---including my friends GSD's. Fortunately we were all three here and the dogs were obedient enough to come off----except the terrier which carried on when in mid air!

How very DARE you even suggest you know that the other dogs didn't have anything to do with it! You were not there and nor was anyone else.

rune

Right---so you would consider your cats to be members of your pack/family. You think dogs have a concept of family?

rune

Bitches that kill pups are not pts----there are excuses made for them.

rune

I think sometimes other factors take over, as we have seen many a time on here, no they dont "normally" go round killing each other, but we do know that dogs that have lived happily for yrs together can suddenly fall out, and in some cases one will kill another, by intent or accident, we will never know that.

I agree though , with the views that I could never see the dog in the same light or want it in my home, I would not blame the dog, but I probably have it PTS>

During a fight (If dogs have an argument) the difference in a 1cm can can be the difference between a flesh wound and a mortal one.

Unless you would not accept any kind of blood shed between dogs?

They (our dogs) never shed blood, read the post again. Their fight consisted of a lot of noise & one would put the other down on its back & hold it down physically for a short time.

During a fight (If dogs have an argument) the difference in a 1cm can can be the difference between a flesh wound and a mortal one.

Unless you would not accept any kind of blood shed between dogs?

thats not really a fight imo.

They (our dogs) never shed blood, read the post again. Their fight consisted of a lot of noise & one would put the other down on its back & hold it down physically for a short time.