Emily
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Registered: Feb 2004
Location: West Kill, NY
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quote:
Originally posted by Geminite
Through him in there with an older female that don't put up with BS. Have seen it several times, them young males think their tough till they try that crap on an old female. We usually put our young dudes in with Dawn, she makes 'em behave right quick......
thats my sense of it too.
I will add that I have two males, one castrated one not, and they are allowed to run loose in a fenced yard. They hump each other all the time in play and I don't worry about it. They worked out which is dominant long ago, and both will put up with the other doing it in play. Both are fine in most hunting situations, but will occasionally try to play with a dog they are turned out with if they don't think the situation shows promise of a track. This does cause trouble sometimes, especially the ore dominant of the two--the denutted one.
The neutered one was not neutered until he was two. He is beautiful,but one of his testicles never came down and I didn't want to breed him, so both were removed. He is still a gritty big game dog--can tree a bear and hold it single handed. He is fairly dominant even with un-neutered dogs, but not ill. I think his behavior patterns were formed before he was neutered. The only difference I notice is that he smells better to me and is now greedier about food. He isn't ill with the other male at all, but will gulp down his food to get more than his share of the other dog's if I feed them together.
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