Nothing agressive nothing nasty :)

Just curious, my two Sheltie pups regularly practice mouth to mouth combat, they're not sisters by the way, 3 week age difference and different litters but same breeder.

Anyway, mouth to mouth combat, although showing all teeth, baby snarling, whining, yips, yaps, squeaky growls and sighs with waggie tails my two girls will mouth one another 'eat' one anothers faces, chew chops, clash teeth and generally make a meal of one another.

This is usually done when on the settee with me or when they're in the one of 5 baskets in the dining room. They have now introduced my 2plus year old Sheltie to the delights of this game, and she happily takes part. There is no aggression in any of them what so ever and it never 'turns bad'. They have always got on famously and have been very easy pups to house train, lead train etc and are a pleasure to have about.

Never having had two pups at the same time before I've not seen this.

Why do they do this?
Is it some sort of 'sorting out pack order' in a baby like fashion?

I can remember when my older Sheltie was a pup she used to put her face in to the open mouth of my Retriever girl and hang on her chops, but never all this jaw duelling, she also used to try it with my Collie girl but she didn't have quite as much time for 'bloody kids'.
Anybody with two pups at the same time ever seen this?

All my dogs have done it with each other at one time or another. It's how dogs play.

Funny devils all the toys and they like to clash teeth.

We have called it 'Gob Boxing' for more years than I care to remember...the number 1 game for boxers. The noise that accompanies it can drown out the TV :-)

Yep pretty normal! All of mine have done it and sometimes still do though mainly the youngest and my male with his mum looking on with a disapproving look on her face. A couple of friends of mine who are not what you would call very doggy sit there with a look of sheer fear in their eyes thinking they are going to kill each other at times because of all the noise and flashing of teeth.

Teeth fencing here :-)

My two will spend ages doing this - to the uninitiated it looks and sounds fearsome :)

yep teeth fencing

It certainly does look fearsome my 2 are at my feet atm doing just that and they are a gsd and pom/chi ! At times it gets a bit too hairy because of the difference in size and they have to be separated ,you also have full sound effects 

It's the bitey face game and something all of mine have done with each other and their best and most trusted canien chums outside of the family paqck, and they are usually two to three years apart in age in my household.

> 'Gob Boxing' LOL

Yep mine do it too.

Gob Boxing lol :-p

Yes my two do it too :)

My Rotties love to engage in a round or three of this. The noise they make is fearsome, funny though they only really do this when we're trying to watch telly, if it gets a bit much I give them a time out in the kitchen, and within seconds they're flopped on the floor ignoring each other and just generally chilling out.

Hee hee sounds like my Rottie's...the noise they make is crazy and it is always when something good in on the tv!

mine get bonus points for scuffing an ear or a tongue while gob boxing.

Talking of doggy play, I expect you also see what we call 'roncing'.

We lead walk to our girls to our nearby park then let them off for a free run, only it's not a run for the first 15 mins or so it's jump, pounce, ankle bite, neck chew, play bow, snarly chops, growl and woof and all 5 of them do this, from the old girls to the babies.

Some passers by look as if they're seeing savagery going on, we've even been asked ' are those dogs safe?' Like dumbo if that were for real do they think we'd be stood there taking photo's?

Yes our two make such a racket and it looks really awful but they dont "bite" just mouth to mouth and gob all over the place. Then one hides behind the sofa and we have a chase up and running, we just turn up the tv and let them get on with it. Then one flakes out and they both go back to sleep. Jake (Border) postively grins whilst hes chasing Whistler (cocker) who cant stand the tension and yaps.

> It's the bitey face game and something all of mine have done with each other and their best and most trusted canien chums outside of the family paqck

yep, us to. a bit disconcerting when tio does it with my sisters whippet though...bit of a size difference

my two newfs look like tigers pouncing on each other and soak each other with slime bites.  We just dont allow it inside the house!!!!

Yuck to slime bites ; ) :)

LOL my pup does this with my 4 year old dog.  The older 5 year dog will have none of it.

We call the pair of them 'the senobites' off of the hellraisers films cos thats what they sound like.