Here are the dogs playing this morning as usual.
An unsuccessful attempt to get as stupid dive bombing birdie. .....
I went to the doctor's, came home and fixed their dinners and they ate. Cheryl and I went out to eat at the Huddle house. We came home and while I put out the garbage can Cheryl went inside. When she went in I heard more noise than usual and it sounded "different." Then I could hear Cheryl yelling. When I got in, it was all over except the shaking and crying.
When Cheryl went in, the dogs were not by the door as usual and there was a lot of noise from the end of the hall. It looks like some of the dogs had ganged up on Inky! Why, I don't know. Cheryl chased away the other dogs and got Inky into our bedroom by herself. She has bites all over her body, but mainly around the neck and shoulder on her left side. I tried to take pictures showing her wounds, but they didn't turn out.
Of course we examined all the other dogs involved too. (Dottie, Prissy, Freckles, Prince, Mr. Dawg and Prince were not involved in any way. The incident involved the four pups, Sweet Pea, Ginger and Kaiser. Of these Ginger, Kaiser and Sweet Pea had injuries also. None of the pups had so much as a scratch and only Ebony and Ivory had any indication wet areas on their fur. Here are some pics of the other injuries.
Ginger has a single gash above her left eye and a puncture wound by her right eye. Of course it looks worse than it appears in the image.
Kaiser has a similar gash above her left eye and another on her cheek.
Sweet Pea has some puncture wounds in her left ear flap.
Tomorrow when we leave, Inky, Coco, Dottie and Freckles will be locked in our bed room. Sweet Pea will be kenneled. The Pups will be put in thier room. Kaiser and Ginger will be left in the living room with Apache and Prince. Prissy and Mr. Dawg will be either in the living room or bedroom.
Right now we are too shook up to think straight. I have an idea why the fight started, but cannot prove if my theory is correct. ....
Note: except for Sweet Pea and the pups, the dogs involved are generally submissive. The only dog in the group that has shown any animosity before tonight was Sweet Pea, and it was directed against Inky, who has a bad habit of running over her when coming back inside the house.
Any thoughts, suggestions or comments.
I'm shocked too - I thought they had all that kind of stuff worked out long ago. I guess it's not that unusual for something like this to happen with that many dogs - something happens that upsets the hierarchy, and everyone's playing king of the mountain (or just trying to the the H*** out of the way). 
