hey thanks for looking,
i have 2 jack russels and they are of the same age and litter, both bitches. they have fought a few times in the past but these have been easily broken up no real damage down but no all they wan to do for the past day is kill each other.
we are having to keep them in separte rooms and thy only now sleep next to each other in different cages, we tried wearing them out with a 2 hr run but this didnt help.
please any help or advice u can give would be greatly appreciated.
Tom

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This probably is something that won't ever stop, both bitches both litter sisters, both terriers

I have no constructive advice but unless you are prepared to live with it and I know how horrible these situations are, believe me.

The kindest thing to do is perhaps rehome one of them.

I have copied and pasted this from a post I wrote on page 13 regarding dogs fighting. If you look through the pages, you will find other ones which may help.

My newest rescue, Sammy was un-neutered (was done 3 days later though!) and him and Max used to fight. Max is a problem anyway and these fights resulted in injury to me and trips to the vet. Fingers crossed they have not had a fight for nearly two months (I am holding my breath as I write this!) To solve this problem they have been walked and walked and walked as a pack twice daily. They have been put in the same room on their own with muzzles on, but now no need for it. The one thing I did not do was seperate, even though it was HARD and it would have been the easiest thing, I had to monitor it. Seperating will only make it worse. It is particuarly important that they are put back together immediately after a fight. Otherwise their last memory of their time together is bad. If they are in the same house then this tension can grow and you have a bigger problem.

Have these fights only happened with you are around?
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Unfortunately this is something that often does happen with litter sisters, You don't say how old they are but I would assume that they are approaching maturity, or about to come into season. I can offer little advise as to how to curb this, Maybe Noushka could help and she keeps Husky litter sisters together! BUT! she does have an older bitch who in the matriex! They may just find there own place and things may settle down - but cannot guarantee it.
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hey everyone thanks for ur replies and help, they are 3 in a couple of months and we think they are now in their heat, they last had one around 5 months ago so its about a month off.
we have been having them sleeping in cages next to each other in the same room and putting them in the cages during the day for short periods as well. the problem we have is we have had a few small fights in the past and put them together again after the fight but this time as soon as their feet hit the floor they charge at each other and try to kill each other.
they have not benn spayed yet though we are now seriously looking at doing it.
Today we took them for a 2hr walk with muzzels on to begin with but we had a friend along with her german shep. so there was focus much more on a pack feelin we took their muzzels off roughly half way through the walk and they were walking well together although when we stopped to chat to another friend tension was starting to build.
we are hoping that by sleeping in cages next to each other again tonight and taking them for a long pack like walk tomorrow morning and tomorrow night might help bring them back to how they were, though i dont think we can ever trust them to be allowed together and certainly not in the same crate.

Any further comments and advice would be great, and thanks again so much for your help so far
Tom

Spaying them both won't help, the dogs I have had problems with are both spayed, it has very little effect, infact they were probably worse afterwards.

There is an old saying, dogs fight for breeding rights, bitches fight for breathing rights..

I've found bitches that usually start to fight it turns out to be a lifelong problem, these dogs are sisters, and both terriers and one will probably end up killing the other. Problem is they are both the same age and have similar status therefore one will compete with the other to become "top dog".

It is impossible to get bitches to get along with each other once they start fighting and I can 100% guarantee spaying won't help, it don't have the same effect as it does with male dogs and even in some cases, failure can still be high with the males, my aunts male dogs fight even though both have been "chopped" and I dismiss that it's not because she's not in control of her dogs, most responsible people are, it's nothing to do with rank, her boys are behaved beautifully they just hate the sight of one another!

Crating them isn't a longterm solution, it isn't fair on either of them, I think you need to think if you can live like this with your dogs? With a dog of their size it's possible but human error needs to be taken into account and how you can manage this.

Other than getting a APDT reputable behaviourist in, I don't know what else to suggest but I doubt the quick fix solutions you are looking for here, isn't going to happen

You can find your nearest behaviourist here Welcome to APDT - Association of Pet Dog Trainers UK.

Unfortunately we went down that route with our dogs, it didn't work we had to resort to other methods.

I agree with this post ^^^

Whereas dogs, and dogs and bitches, can fight and then seem to get over it, fights between two bitches seem to be worse and they tend to hold grudges. Unfortunately you may well find that once they've fought, they're never going to get on. By all means contact a behaviourist but don't have your hopes too high. As Nicci says, it would be unfair to crate long term. You need to be prepared for possibly rehoming.

hi sorry that you are having problems with your dogs, but also have to agree with the previous 2 posts, ibitches are known to fight till death!! and even more so if litter mates. I know a lady who had 2 bitches and while out walking them 1 day, the bitches just went for each other, she had to run and get help, but when returned one was already dead, i know this is extreme, but you may have to consider rehoming one of them, better to have them both happy in seperate homes, than living with constant tension with each other. sorry again this is probably not want to hear.