Ok, now mulitples, more than one bitch!

Yeah and I also know a woman who has a house with 6 AKITAS in it...inside dogs all...and most of the time everyone gets along...BUT she has never recommended it to the average pet owner.
 
I would take two males fighting over 2 bitches any time of any day of any year...lol. Don't think I said the dogs never fight...or that the bitches always do...but bitch fights are always worse and they always hold a grudge.

We've had a multi dog home for over 30 years with normally about 3 or 4 females and 1 to 2 males at one time.  We have never had a problem with bitch fights.  Of course this is just our experience.  All dogs have different personalities and we just seem to luck out.  Even with my dog aggressive female Rottie, she is wonderful in a multi dog household.

For friends who show and have multiple dogs they tend to house a few intact females with one male...bring more than one male into the picture and there are fights...and these are Newf's. Even for other breeds such as Pyr's etc breeders house females together and don't house males together.

With our male Newf Dilon he gets along fine with any male dog except another male Newf...he hates male Newfs with a passion.  Tori was intact up til last year with no issues with the other females either.  I guess I've had great experiences with females together so I'm biased in my ideas.[]

I know of some Corgi breeders who will not house males together either...and those fights can get nasty between two males.  I think a lot has to do with the breed.  A Newf breeder may suggest females together where a Beagle breeder may suggest males together. 
 
The best you can do is try a new dog out, it could be a male that could cause problems it all depends on the dogs personality.  We got all our dogs as adults and just threw them together through the years.  It seems to work for us lol  

Just to post a picture of my friends white boxer...he looks so much like your baby[]

Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!  He's gorgeous!!! All of your babies are beautiful!!!!!!!  Just beautiful, everytime I see one of your posts I grin from ear to ear just looking at those precious faces!!!!!! Gosh, he looks so much like my Houston boy!!!!

I have three girls - a six year old (Sioux), a seventeen year old (Fergie), and a one year old (Sequoyah).  They get along very well, but they are not similar in age or status.  Maybe it's that old hound boy (Maska) keeping them all in line. [sm=wink3.gif]

I have two females, both spayed. Mattie was about 8 months old when I adopted   Casie who was estimated to be 3. They have been together for over a year now, and we have not had any problems with fighting. They seem to be really bonded to eachother. I have since read a lot about females esp. those close in age and size fighting a lot. So I'm not sure if I just got lucky with these two, but personally I have not had any trouble.
 
 

I know nothing about this, but find it interesting as I read through this thread. Can someone please educate me about having two bitches? Why is it so much worse to have two bitches fight than 2 males?

Well, I know with Boxers two bitches will fight to the death, they aren't playing they mean to  get rid of the other one permanantly. Of course, alot depends on the individual dogs, don't get me wrong, we have had two bitches and a male and had no problems what so ever, two males will not fight in this way, not till the death. I only know about boxers, no other breeds with reguard to this and with that said I certainly don't know all there is to know. I have a female that of course is spayed and a male that is neutered and if a 3rd comes our way "he" will be fixed also, so that does have an influence on  how they act once they reach the age of 2 or so years. I have had friends who had two females and they had to be seperated, I don't think thats a good way to live[&:] So our quest if we do get a third will be for another little boy.

Really? Wow . . I didn't know this at all, but it's definitely good to know now.

My non-Boxer bitches would also fight to the death. Teenie starts it, Teenie won't back down, and Teenie is the only one who ever got hurt. She got an ear ripped almost off of her head, and continued to go after Emma, before they became seperated.

Private training is ridiculously expensive, and crate and rotate sucks. I love them both, and neither is really rehomable, so I deal with it. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, though. I won't have two bitches in the same house again. Of course, the next puppy I want to get is a Doberman Pinscher. Doberboys are KNOWN for being dog aggressive. Dobergirls aren't nearly as bad. The opposite is true with the small terriers.

Males fight about status and breeding rights mainly....these things have a finite end to them. Either you dominate or you submit...eventually after enough, one dog will run, or cower and submit. The other will allow this...and providing there are no further trangressions....they can live together afterwards...even if blood was drawn.
 
Bitches....bitches will fight for status...but they are also fighting for 'litters'...'den-sites'...and the right to have/keep puppies. There is quite simply more to it. BOTH bitches feel they might be defending puppies...even if they don't have any and there have never been any, the "drive" is the same. If you think about the cliche' 'momma defending their young' then you know what ferocity is involved....it's no joke, and it's not for show...it's for keeps.
 
It varies breed to breed and animal to animal...but IMO bitches are more covert about fights....they will sneak around and almost plot their attacks it seems. They remember slights for YEARS and sometimes entire lifetimes. I know one person with Akitas who came home to find her bitches locked in combat...both almost dead but still going. These two bitches had a tiff about 3 years prior and had been moved from one end of the kennel to the other....with 6 kennels between them. This bitch needed decided today was the day and unwound her chain link and went past 4 other dogs....touching none of them....to get to this one bitch and finish things. Mind you they were not even walked past each other for 3 years. But she had a point to make.
 
Not always, perhaps not even often....but should it happen...and me have to live with both dogs afterwards? Give me dog on dog....and keep the bitch on bitch lol!

Males fight about status and breeding rights mainly....these things have a finite end to them. Either you dominate or you submit...eventually after enough, one dog will run, or cower and submit. The other will allow this...and providing there are no further trangressions....they can live together afterwards...even if blood was drawn.

Bitches....bitches will fight for status...but they are also fighting for 'litters'...'den-sites'...and the right to have/keep puppies. There is quite simply more to it. BOTH bitches feel they might be defending puppies...even if they don't have any and there have never been any, the "drive" is the same. If you think about the cliche' 'momma defending their young' then you know what ferocity is involved....it's no joke, and it's not for show...it's for keeps.

 
And, that is the simple truth.[]