How to reintegrate dogs after a fight?
Jasper Zulauf
2025-05-19 18:30:00
Count answers: 5
After the fight has been broken up you should immediately get both dogs to lay down and become calm where the fight happened. If it takes 3o minutes, so be it. If the dogs become calm after a fight they can move on and be fine. If dogs are separated after a fight and not calmed down first, they get stuck in a fight state of mind towards the other dog and it gets really bad.
Dogs live in the moment and argue and fight like little kids on a playground. They don't hold grudges and once the fight has passed the dogs have moved on.
WALK THEM TOGETHER AFTER A FIGHT AS FAR/LONG AS YOU CAN.
Once they are calm and tired you are going to let them back together.
Do not isolate the dogs from one another. If you don't get the dogs back together after a fight a bit of scar tissue develops in their mind, and in your emotions.
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