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I AM TRYING TO FIND INFORMATION TO HELP ME KNOW AND OR UNDERSTAND WHY A PUG WOULD KILL ANOTHER PUG IN A KENNEL RUN?
My friend just told me she has found one of her dearly loved pugs in her laundry/dog room dead .....blood everywhere and two other pugs were in with her. one male and one female.
The female was supposed to be about a month & 1/2 preg. The other female was just bred. The male is who bred both girls.
Friend is just beyond words to talk about it. I am as well.
How often and have any other breeders seen this happen, or heard of it and why?
It has to be hormonal. The dogs have been together every night to sleep all the time. They are of course out all day but she has 15 pugs and does have to leave them in three separate indoor/out with doggy door runs at night.
The dog was stiff dead. Just horrible.....
I am so shocked and cannot find any other info about this topic anywhere.... is it just nature? They are NOT INBRED EITHER.... They are darling little sweet pugs.... Champion lined show dogs.
All of them....
WHAT THE????????????

It would likely have been female-to-female, aggravated by hormones. Those dogs should not have been left together.

She needs to rethink her combinations and quite possibly reduce her numbers of dogs. If they are great dogs, it should be pretty easy to place some of them.

This happening is all too common. People get more dogs than they really have facilities for.
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I would have to agree... having two unspayed females and leaving them unsupervised was most likely the reason for the attack. As horrible as this was your friend would really need to educate herself before running a breeding program. Having 15 dogs with only three areas to keep them in could be risking the same thing happening in the future.
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This is a terrible accident, but you are correct that the hormones were probably the reason this incident happened. Two unspayed females sharing a tight space with an unneutered male is a recipe for disaster no matter what breed- especially when there is another female in heat around. This is a terrible thing to have happen. Please have your friend seperate her dogs in the future. No matter what the breed, hormonal instincts are not something to mess around with.
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