Can someone please explain to me how two dogs can be tearing each other apart one minute, and care for each other's damage the next? Every once in a while, Xander and Jayne will get into a WAR and it is like hell getting them apart, most of the time one of us gets bit but not intentionally by either of them, it's just if you get in the middle of two fighting dogs, your bound to get bit.

Anyway, back to the story. Tonight, I let them out by myself because my brother is like coughing his head off and it's cold out....heck we got snow!!! YES! . So I hook Xander up, give him his food, go let Jayne out and give her her food. Well she always has to prance around shitting and pissing all over the yard before she does anything, so she ate a few bites and went to do her business. Well I saw Jayne do a number two so I went and got the shovel to clean it up. My back was turned for one second, and apparently in that time, Xander walked over by Jayne's food, which Jayne took as a "Let's go!" and the war was on. I spent like 3 minutes trying to pull them apart, failing, and finally ran inside to get my brother to help me. We get them apart and they barked for a few minutes and then were calm and went over and literally "kissed" and made up. I don't understand this...if I get mad at someone, I usually hold a grudge for quite a while...heh. But come on! They were fine again within a minute.

This fighting over food all goes back to Xander's days as a pup. We would give them each their food, Jayne would finish first having the bigger mouth thus being able to eat faster, then she would go take Xander's away from him, by snapping and use of fear. Now that Xander's bigger than her, and being sick of her "abuse" as a puppy, he stands up to her and fights. It's still an ongoing battle for dominance I think...she wants to be dominant because she's the mother of him, and he wants to be dominant because he's the male.

Anyway, yeah...crazy dogs, heh..

Ronnie