Fw: Fw: [PyrNet-L] dumb question/books

["Danita Acquafredda" <genesis@atlantic.net>]

Mitzi

I am still laughing about your post, give me a male any day..males fight for
the show and females fight to kill.  Yep,can't argue with that as that is
very true with my dogs.   My males 2 of the three have sat on my female
Kala, basically just to put her down (in place)  she will concede....until
she gets back up and then   watch out...she goes for the throat.

Thank goodness my males do not want to kill her.  It is just they are more
powerful, their only defense.

However, my best dog, the one that I can communicate with in any manner,
eyes, feelings, voice command is my female, Kala.

Her brother, Cody, runs a real close second.  The differences is that my
male, Cody,  will harm some small animals that my female, Kala, probably due
the mother instinct, would not.  My Kala has fought Cody over a pet Bunny.

We thought our Kala was just being jealous over our pet bunny,...well, not
so, we went back outside after Kala had attacked Cody over the bunny, it
turned out that our Cody had punched his head thru our rabbit cage, crunched
the bunny and the poor bunny died during the night.  Guess my female,  Kala,
knew more than we, we thought he to be just curious..ha ha

My Cody, is my females brother.  My parents due to health problems could no
longer keep Cody and I had always thought he was great.  He was with my
mom's ducks, goats, etc...he had never been exposed to a Rabbit.   It was a
little funny tho that night, our Cody played RCA, would not even look me in
the eyes, so I assume he knew chomping the pet bunny was not the thing to
do.

Their all great, just different.

Danita
genesis@atlantic.net

-----Original Message-----
From: Mitzi Potter <Pyrs@prodigy.net>
To: pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>


>On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:39:36 -0700, Danita Acquafredda wrote:
>>My oldest male, Cody (8) is not argumentative at all and truly does not
care
>>who is the dominate male.
>
>This is exactly how all 3 of my male Pyrs are. They could care less who's
boss and
>they'll go out of their way to avoid any kind of confrontation at all.
>
>>It is amazing tho, the worst one of all for initiating fights is my
female,
>>Kala.  She is spoiled rotten and prefers to be the dominate of all.
>
>I rest my case as far as females<G>.  Give me a male anyday. Males seem to
fight for
>the show, females fight to kill.
>
>>If neutering would help my males to get along...any suggestions for my
>>female?  She's the real problem child, she, Kala, was an only child, ops,
>>dog child, for 5 years therefore, I contribute that to her lack of
>>enthusiasm towards the males. Ha..Luckily we have 21/2 acres so we are
able
>>to keep them separated when necessary.
>
>I don't know if neutering *would help your boys at this point. It's been
going on too
>long and old habits are hard to break. It's worth a shot and it'll stop
them from getting
>testicular cancer later on. And who knows, it very well may help their
fighting if it's
>testosterone related.
>
>Mitzi     Pyrs@prodigy.net   OKC   OK
>http://members.aol.com/fivepyrs/dogsz.htm
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