Why Your Dogs Fight at Home (It's Not Dominance) #Dogbehavior

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-20

[00:00:00]If your dogs are fighting at home, the instinct is to label it, right? They're dominant, they're aggressive, they just don't get along. But, there is a more useful way to think about it. Your dogs fight because they haven't yet learned that they can share space or a resource with the other dog without feeling threatened by the other dog being there.

[00:00:14]So, now it's not a personality problem, it's actually a skills problem and a trust problem, which is so much better because you can't change your dog's personality, but you can teach them skills and build up their trust. So, now the goal becomes not to stop the fights through separation, and it isn't all about just forcing them to be in the same space and hope to figure it out. It becomes to build up a track record, one controlled setup at a time, that shows each dog that it's safe to coexist because the other dog being there doesn't mean losing access to what matters to them. So, do you see how you think about it changes how you might approach it? One important caveat here is that I'm assuming that the fighting isn't being driven by an underlying health issue or pain because that's a different conversation entirely. If you have more than one dog at home, follow along. I cover dog behavior insights like this regularly.

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