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Advice needed ASAP!!!!!!!!!
I have recently moved to a smaller place and was not able to take my dog(pitbull)with me so she is now staying with a relative. They also have a dog(pitbullX) which my dog has socialised with for most of her life and they have gotten along fine UNTIL today............ I went for a visit (which I do on A daily basis) and next thing I know they are FIGHTING!!!!! and i dont mean play fighting. There was alot of blood and alot of tears (from me)... and now I am wondering WHAT TO DO???? My relatives aren't happy IM NOT HAPPY and certainly I feel the dogs wouldn't be very happy.I am thinking of buying a muzzle????? but am just not sure.. Does any1 think now that she has had the 'taste for blood' that she will be a vicious dog??? She is usually a lovely dog (until 2day) and now I am having trust issues. My last option will be to put her down :( as I will not be moving for a while... Any advice would be helpful as atm they are tied up and THEY ARE NOT HAPPY. (Oh and the dogs arent SERIOUSLY injured in case you wondering just lots of little cuts and scratches which are being tended to)

Dogs fight and hurt eachother no matter what, when it comes to these kind of dogs it can become a life and death matter as we sadly experienced.
We had 2 Rottweilers and 2 mix breed small hunting dogs and one of the hunting dogs had a fight with one of the rottweilers and the rottweiler accidently killed him. However he had never hurt another dog before that and not after so it was a heat of the moment thing, two dogs fighting about who's the boss and the smaller one not giving up when he should. If we would have been there we would have stopped the fight of course but we were both at work and the dogs in their pen.
This sounds to me like your relatives dog is showing your dog who lived there first and who's the boss and your dog might want to fight for that right... It doesn't matter that they known eachother for all their life. You might have to separate them but I beleive she will not be to any harm to any other dogs.
To be on the safe side you might want to contact an organisation that knows more, try http://www.cockerspanielrage.org.uk/ or http://www.petplanet.co.uk/pethealth.asp
You can find lots of information on the internet but also talk to your local vet.
Good luck!!! x

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