Thank you all, Zeus is I guess feeling so so, he is awfully swollen around his mouth, and every chech I need to do, to make sure it still looks okay is hurting him, and me for having to do it. He is running a sight fever, but nothing to be concerned about at this point the vet says, only to be expected after a surgery like that. He is eating mushed up food in soup form, I guess the fact that he is eating is a good sign. He will go for checkup tomorrow, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that everything will be fine, or at least as fine as can be expected.
Yes, I am sure you are right, that it was a jealousy issue, I just have such a hard time getting that I have seen no signs at all, since I have had three or four dogs at the same time, for the past 25 or so years, this is always something you have in the back of your head. That it can happen, and you tend to look at their interactions pretty closely. Since I have almost always had more than one female at a time, I do not give them bones when they are together, us females have a tendency to get a little bitchy lol..... And to avoid fights I have just always been with them when they eat and when they get bones, they are in separate rooms. To have four dogs all with bones, all in one room is to ask for problems I think. So anyway I am sure it was a jealousy thing, and lol....... my daughter bacame a "woman" about a year ago, she would absolutely kill me if she saw this, noooo thats not true she would first torture me for days
(sad how they get all grown up that early now isnt it) But I asked on the way to the vet. if it was that time of the month, because that was something that stuck me that, that may be the case. But nope, is not (have to ask her, I cant even keep my days in my head lol.....) Okay now we are grossing out some I am sure.
I actually called, a couple of people I trained for in Sweden, back when I was competing obedience with my German Shepherd, these two were the best trainers I ever have had, so I called them, to see what they thought about the situation. Both said that, since Zeus is a rescue dog and we didnt get him until he was about 2 years old, we really dont know what he has been having to deal with before, things can just lay there for years they said and one day, it just snapps, if the experience was bad enough, especially at a young enough age. They said that it had been an easier situation, if we had separated them, and both were sort of fine and we could try to work on getting things back to "normal" straight away. Now when Zeus is not well, and it will be at least 2 more weeks before he is ready to spend time with any of the other dogs, the vet said, he need a lot of alone time, to recover without any stress. So being that long before we can start any kind of "let's be nice to each other" routines, it makes it so much harder. It is like having been in a car crash and not being able to get back into the car fairly soon after, you build up a fear, in this case more of a "dont like you feeling". They said to very very slowly take them both for walks, on leashes, not getting to be too close, see how that goes, and if it looks and feels okay, take babysteps towards them being together again. But they also said, they have heard way too many cases like this and only gave it about 50% chance to work. They are both breeders, and with several dogs, they are both having to separate some that just dont get along even if they are great with others (just like kids)
I have done a lot of thinking, about how to make this work, if we actually end up in a situation where we need to keep them apart. They both go well with the other three, so it is basically a take turns situation. Half the time Hera will spend time with the others, and half the time Zeus will. And we let them out through the back door, into the backyard, so when they go in our out, I will simply just have to make sure both of them are not there at the same time. The back yard is about an acre, so we have also played with the idea to put up fence to make a smaller yard in one end, so both can be outside at the same time, when it is nice weather. The house, well its two story, daughter sleeps upstairs with Zeus, and Hera is sleeping in my bedroom, and even if we dont want to make them stay in only one room during day, one of them can be upstairs and one downstairs, thats usually how it is anyway, I mean that the dogs are spread out around the house, it is a rather large house about 3500 sq ft. so they dont have to feel like they are having too little room even if this is what we will have to do.
Okay...... now I am just blabbering away... Guess you can tell I am still rather confused over the whole thing. I really really hope it will work out to have them together again, but like you said, the chance that they will break loose again, and with my 4 year old inbetween, noooo...... I dont even want to think about it. So the way that seems to be the biggest chance for them to live happily in the same house. That's how it will have to be. But we are still a couple of weeks away from getting Zeus up and around, so maybe by then things have cooled off and it will work, with a lot of work from our part and a little coop. frome theirs.
Now it is time for my poor toothless baby, to get his pain meds, so Ill be getting off here, and hope to get on a bit later on, I miss talking to you all.
Marit