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Which sex would you choose2007-11-25 2:55:39

Males may fight to determine top dog or if a female in heat is around if the are intact, but fights are often extremely brief and they tend to forgive and forget. It is preferred if you have multiple males to have them altered, the testosterone can make the males competitive more willing to challenge each other, if they are adult when you get them and have to neuter them remember it take about 3 weeks for the testosterone to leave their bodies so there can be increase aggressiveness between males during that time.

Spending as many years as I have with multiple dogs and now am grandmom I see human parallels eg 2 teenage competitive females will fight just as nasty and hold the grudges for a life time, in male dogs especially unneutered are like teenage male that are all pumped on adrenalin who blow up when the wrong thing is said but can become friends again a couple days later.

The good alpha dog is like the great supervisor everyone loves because he is fair

I have a household of 4 dogs 2 males 2 females, plus used to foster

when you have a larger dog pack they will work out a ranking

and there can be 2 alphas of opposite sex, one male and 1 female and they share they rsponsibilities of taking care of the pack and keep order with generally the female having the most say so, others fall in behind according to their submissiveness.

In some packs like mine I only have an alpha male as the 2 females are too submissive of the role for alpha female, I use to have one until she passed away..