I have two sberian huskies who are very well behaved but when they start playing sometimes they get carried away, they start play fighting, get too rough and start running and jumping all over the furnature (ruining it) I have no problem with them playing but when they get carried away i have to stop them before something gets broken. Also we have a large garden that they can play in which i would like to leave them in whilst i go out for an hour or two but i cant because they run through wee and jump all over eachother which means i have to bath them which i cannot do almost every day, even if i clean the garden (which is done every day anyway) it is then full of water so they come on soaking wet so i still have basically the same problem. The play fighting happens nearly every day, i walk them every day for over an hour and sometimes even take them out on my bike so i dont think walking is the problem.

Does anyone have any suggestions or have any similar situations?

yeah my two girls are similar but they are whippets but they are little tazmanian devils!

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i know i cant expect them to stop playing 24/7 but id like to leave them in the garden and come home to two dogs that dont smell like theyve been bathng in wee.

are they dogs or bitches? my 2 girls thankfully wee just out of excitement- that must be quite difficult to deal with. sorry im crap & have no advice to help with that side of it!

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They are both bitches and another thing that adds to the problem is that they drink a hell of a lot which then means they wee a lot too

1 of my bitches drink a lot- so she gets me up at all times of the night to wee!

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I am guessing the weeing is a dominant thing? maybe someone has some suggestions - although difficult to know how you could stop that if it is only happening when they play outside.

I've got 7 dogs here -the three older girls are not really 'players' much these days - but my two youngest girls (aunty and niece) - I am not lying when I say they can and will go ALL day every day - they never get bored of hurtling around the garden together - I simply can't allow it to happen indoors - the pair of them are a liability they are so nuts together - definite double trouble

I can remember my OH worrying that the aunt was being bullied by her niece - mmmm - during the recent snow - I found niece on her back being spun around by aunty as if she was on a playground roundabout but the pair of them LOVE it

Mine are often muddy - but certainly not aware of them weeing over each other (either visibly or through smell) and not really certain how you could stop that

ETA - I am not sure I would let mine play out when I am not here - just in case one of them did get hurt. If they are a problem when you are out - separate them.

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I don't let the Mals play for too long and especially they are not allowed to play in the house - ever! They're far too big and can be nutty, lol.

A short play is fine but Flynn and Mart start to show signs of dominance with each other, particularly Flynn as he's a youngster and I can have a fight on my hands.

The house is MY domain and they have to respect that - in fact even the little dogs don't play with each other in the house. They are all allowed to play with their toys indoors but no way will I let them wrestle with each other. They're very good actually and indoors is a place of rest or fussing - it's not like your dogs are chihuahua's - you can't allow them to ruin your home and run riot - can you?

Set some boundries and when they start to go banana's take one to another room for "time out" for ten mins - if they start when you put them back together do "time out" agian. They'll soon get the message and you'll have two lovely calm dogs to curl up by your feet.

Have you seen Raindogs sibes - he's got loads in his house and they're all very well behaved, as they should be.

As for the drinking and weeing - i'd get them tested for diabetes, it's probably not that but i'd test just in case. Also if you feed dry they'll drink more too.

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I wouldn't leave dogs outside while your out. It's very dangerous for numerous of reasons.
As for the peeing give them normal water during the day and ice cubes in the evening, they are still getting the water but not as much as a bowl full.

They dont wee on eachother, they do it on the floor outside as usual but if they are play fightng they run through it and jump on eachother and one of them throws herself onto her back and rolls around which makes things worse.

I do not allow them to play fight in the house and they listen to me and recognise me as the leader but my mum looks after them for me when i am at college and they run rings round her which is the point where she makes them go outside and wrestle and again i come home to smelly dogs.

They dont go rough enough to hurt eachother and they are inseperable, i used to take them out one at a time on my bike but when i did it i could hear the other one crying and howling down the street.

Nothing i seem to do tires them out, i can get in from an hour and a half walk or 45mins on the bike (i take them both at the same time) they will go to sleep for half an hour then its like i never took them out at all.

I feed them dry food with a bit of meat mixed in, so it is not too dry for them to eat. The play fightng may just be because they are young, one is 15 months and the other is 7 months, it might pass over but i would just like to know f anyone knew any training i could do or somethng so i dont have to bath them every day

I havent left them outside before because of this problem but i cant even leave them inside because if they start play fighting whilst im out they will break everything and wreck all of the furnature