not sure what to do with the girls

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Tia and Quila have had a couple of scraps....well 4 total. All bar one have just been noise and have ended when told to pack it in. One was at the yard and I was too far away to stop it escalating early and Quila ended up with a nick in her neck.

The issue is Quila (corgi) starts it but Tia (bulldog x) is now telling her to naff off, which escalates to a scrap. What's worrying me is Tias size and strength. Quila will not back down and seems to be getting more bad tempered. Most of the time Tia is either being her clumsy self and steps on her by accident or Tia has had enough of playing and walking away so Quila snaps at her.

Tia is due into season soon so I wondered if that could be it? (she will be spayed asap afterwards). I'm going to start taking both for a daily run separately (atm they get long lead walks but all three are walked together and we only have my yard where Tia can be loose). I know girls can be worse than boys for fighting but is this something that will settle back down with Tia spayed or am I going to have to look at what I do next?
 
It may be that Tia is just reaching maturity as well as the season issue.

Have you the capacity to keep them separate in the house/at yard whilst not supervised? I would not be leaving them unsupervised at this time especially if Tia is targeting the neck area.

It might settle down but it also might not - corgis can be grumpy little sods - which is why I would err on the side of caution.
We had two females who scrapped and we ended up sending the younger one back to the breeder for a few months (I can understand why this is not possible for most people) as the older bitch did sustain quite a bad neck injury.

One thing I would do is attach a tab line to each of their collars so you can lift the aggressor out without getting hurt, or keep a line on you so you can loop it around the neck of the aggressor, be careful to never stick your hands in x

But hopefully it is just a hormone issue!
 
Both are crated when we're not about so ok on that front.

I'm hoping it is just a tussle for who is top girl coupled with hormones.

Was hoping to get away next month but not sure I'm willing to risk them with a stranger who can't read them like we can
 
An experienced sitter or boarder should be used to managing dogs who don't always get along....I have friends with dogs who didn't get on then throw mine into the mix, just worked it on a 'one in house, one out in yard, one in a kennel, one in the crate' type rotation!
 
To be completely safe, could you have them in two different locations while you are away? Sounds extreme but I just heard the story of somebody's saluki yesterday who was left with relatives. They were told to never let him off the lead but they did and the dog got run over and killed. So trusting other people to be as careful as I am is not an option for me.
 
It will only be an overnight but we dont know that many doggy people. If needs be they can go into kennels and be in separate ones just costs more.
 
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