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My intact male is not a poodle but I guess I can share about him anyway.
Yes we did have the occasional scuffle between him and his father before I got married and moved away from home. We eventually had to seperate them perminately. To be fair though, it was my mother's dog who had the issue not my dog and Howie is usually good with other dogs intact males included. Another note on the fighting issue would be that reguardless of *** dogs will discuss who is dominate. This doen't always present itself as fighting but it can. It goes against the sterotype but having intact girls is worse and boys. In our household if there was a scuffle over a bone or a bed or whatever between two males, we stayed out of it and let them work it out on the their. If the scuffle was between two females we stepped in right away. Keep in mind that every household is different.
As for the peeing on everything, we do have to watch Howie. He will occasionaly lift his leg in the house, usually on hubby's briefcase. We are working on that behavior. Typicaly it is more prominate in males that have lived with other intact males, and/or have been bred. Howie has been both. Hiking their leg and marking are learned behaviors in dogs. They aren't as natual as some people think they are. If a puppy is around an older male dog who is in the habit of marking in the house it stands to reason that the puppy will also learn this behavior both inside and outside. This is a big part of why Howie seems to think John's breifcase is fair game. I once had a dog that was over a year old before he learned to lift his leg. The very first time he was around a girl in heat was the fist time he did it and the last time he squatted to go pee.
Actualy now that I think of it, a lot of those annoying dog behaviors start or get worse after the dog has been bred. He thinks he's a big man is what we say about our boys.
Anyway this reply is sort of all over the board.... must be the cold meds - sorry. Hopefuly somebody else will be able to put it better
Yes we did have the occasional scuffle between him and his father before I got married and moved away from home. We eventually had to seperate them perminately. To be fair though, it was my mother's dog who had the issue not my dog and Howie is usually good with other dogs intact males included. Another note on the fighting issue would be that reguardless of *** dogs will discuss who is dominate. This doen't always present itself as fighting but it can. It goes against the sterotype but having intact girls is worse and boys. In our household if there was a scuffle over a bone or a bed or whatever between two males, we stayed out of it and let them work it out on the their. If the scuffle was between two females we stepped in right away. Keep in mind that every household is different.
As for the peeing on everything, we do have to watch Howie. He will occasionaly lift his leg in the house, usually on hubby's briefcase. We are working on that behavior. Typicaly it is more prominate in males that have lived with other intact males, and/or have been bred. Howie has been both. Hiking their leg and marking are learned behaviors in dogs. They aren't as natual as some people think they are. If a puppy is around an older male dog who is in the habit of marking in the house it stands to reason that the puppy will also learn this behavior both inside and outside. This is a big part of why Howie seems to think John's breifcase is fair game. I once had a dog that was over a year old before he learned to lift his leg. The very first time he was around a girl in heat was the fist time he did it and the last time he squatted to go pee.
Actualy now that I think of it, a lot of those annoying dog behaviors start or get worse after the dog has been bred. He thinks he's a big man is what we say about our boys.
Anyway this reply is sort of all over the board.... must be the cold meds - sorry. Hopefuly somebody else will be able to put it better
