shih tzus fighting behavior

I have a pack, yes, a pack of shih tzus. 11 to be exact. They all usually
get along fine, but there are times when 2 pairs of the total of 11 just
start tearing into each other. They are all spayed and neutered and there is
nothing that seems to provoke it. They just start fighting. I have my own

javagsd...

What you don't seem to understand it that it would be extremely
irresponsible to read an on-line post about fighting among 11 dogs,
diagnose the caruse, and tell the poster what to do about it. I'm
leaving shortly to see my 3rd client this week with similar problems -
and it's only Tuesday! I don't know what I'm going to advise those
people to do because I haven't seen their particular situation yet.
It may very well call for different approaches than those for
yesterday's clients, but there's no way to know without assessing it
firsthand.

Lynn K.

war wounds from breaking them up. What is truly baffling about it is there
are only these 4 that fight. The rest of the 11 don't fight. They play and
have a big time. The problem dogs are a pair of females from the same litter
and a pair of males from the same litter. The females are the most
aggressive and vicious. How can I eliminate this behavior from these 4 dogs!
I want to learn something about behaviour modification, here.

shore...

If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have called a
behaviorist immediately when one of my rescue dogs turned
out to be a fighter. If you're not able to identify the
things that set them off you've got a long road ahead of you
to correct the problem, and there's the danger of injury to
one or more of the dogs. Occasionally some situations can't
be fixed and a professional can help you identify those, as
well.

I'd start with some basic work on dog body language,
and while Ian Dunbar's stuff on dealing with dog fighting is
about problems with strange dogs at least it will give you
some guidelines for evaluating how serious the problem is.
But really, if you can't see what's setting them off you're
not in a position to be able to remedy it.