Lola sometimes plays with my cousins dog...a pit/lab mix, male who's a little over a year. They'll run around and chase each other and roll around biting one another.
She does the same thing with a 4 month old female pit that we met a few weeks ago. Last Friday we stopped by after walking and they played for about 1/2 hour, chasing each other, rolling around, pinning each other to the ground, biting. There were no yelps or cries so I thought all was okay. Problem, when I got Lola home I noticed she had a cut behind her ear, scratches everywhere and a cut on her leg. It did get intense at the end and that's when I said, okay time to go home.
She plays or tries to play this way with my friends 5 year old lab, but the lab is old enough and puts Lola in her place right away, so then they play good with each other.
And she plays great with the dogs at the dog park, but I haven't been bringing her there because I think that's where she picked up the cough that she had.
My family has had dogs my entire life, but they were never socialized. So I've never really seen how dogs play together. Is this normal behavior? It looks like they're trying to kill each other, but they keep going back for more and there's never any cries or anything. Lola has a very high tolerance to pain and I'm afraid if she keeps this play behavior up something is going to happen. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and how to stop this behavior and teach the dogs. THANK GOODNESS Liz is back! I'm probably going to need you on this one!!
Thanks everyone!
She does the same thing with a 4 month old female pit that we met a few weeks ago. Last Friday we stopped by after walking and they played for about 1/2 hour, chasing each other, rolling around, pinning each other to the ground, biting. There were no yelps or cries so I thought all was okay. Problem, when I got Lola home I noticed she had a cut behind her ear, scratches everywhere and a cut on her leg. It did get intense at the end and that's when I said, okay time to go home.
She plays or tries to play this way with my friends 5 year old lab, but the lab is old enough and puts Lola in her place right away, so then they play good with each other.
And she plays great with the dogs at the dog park, but I haven't been bringing her there because I think that's where she picked up the cough that she had.
My family has had dogs my entire life, but they were never socialized. So I've never really seen how dogs play together. Is this normal behavior? It looks like they're trying to kill each other, but they keep going back for more and there's never any cries or anything. Lola has a very high tolerance to pain and I'm afraid if she keeps this play behavior up something is going to happen. Any advice would be greatly appreciated and how to stop this behavior and teach the dogs. THANK GOODNESS Liz is back! I'm probably going to need you on this one!!
Thanks everyone!