to be perfect and I am not.
I just try to do what I think is what I have to do for their health and safety.
And sometimes you have no time to think about it and then I do what I do without thinking about it.
Yes, I know you should not keep sisters of the same litter ! I never wanted to !
Yes, I know about jealous behaviour or whatever possible behaviour of animals and dogs.
Yes, I know what the big trainers say, let them fight it out and all the other suggestions etc...
Yes, I did all the instructorcourses succesfully, psycological and behaviourcourses...
Still, I do what I want to do, when I want to do it and sometimes you have NO CHOICE !!!
TODAY I had NO CHOICE...
Mausie was bothering Gipsy and Gispy just gave a groul to Mausie as she has been doing a few times, just to tell Mausie to stop !
Only this time Gipsy sister Cheyenne was standing aside her (Cheyenne and Mausie are very close) and she wanted to correct Gispy and responded to Gipsy, and the sisters got, after a silence of almost 2 years, into a fight with each other.
No... there was no bucket of water nearby and I was not going to hit them with anything... so I decided to do what I have done before...
Yes I have seen what fighting dogs can do, and I know how high the bill can be at the vets afterwards... and WE DO NOT have that kind of money.
So I intervened and tried to separate them. Mausie and Boomer ran away and Tommy bit Cheyenne in the behind trying to help me to separate them.
My hands got mixed up and in the end we all got hurt... Gipsy and Cheyenne both had to be put asleep to get a few stiches, not from biting each other but from Tommy trying to separate them.
YES I KNOW IT WAS STUPID !!!
Spare me your comments on how I should have handled it. I know what the books say, I know what I should have done but still... I did not.
I don' t want any sympathy, I just have always been honest in what happends here... the good and the bad !
The girls waking up at the vetclinic: 

Only small holes on them 
I got the worst I think with a few holes and severe hematoma ... a great job for the torch !
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Pssst.... don ' t do what I do !!! It is not a good example !!!
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