A family dog who bites a child is not a “bad” or aggressive dog, they are a dog who got overwhelmed by the child’s behavior after their repeated communications of discomfort were ignored.ĭog bites don’t happen “out of nowhere”, the vast majority of dog bites occur due to miscommunication. You and your husband need to take her discomfort seriously. Your dog has been very clearly communicating “the baby makes me nervous- keep it away!!”. More than 50% of dog bite victims are children. Your husband is dead wrong: 77% of dog bites are from the family dog or a friend’s dog. My husband thinks there’s no way she’d bite the baby And it makes me so sad when I see posts on the parenting subs about bad/unsafe dogs and kid interactions. I feel like a lot that's been taught when we were growing up is wrong or outdated. Sorry for the long post! Dogs are one of my passions, I compete in nose work with my dog and love helping people understand dogs. If you search body language akc is should pop up. The akc.org also had a good article on body language. They should be the first to pop up when you google. Pawing night be just a learned behavior for getting attention especially if the dog is showing relaxed body language.įamily paws is a great resource for kids and dogs. Rolling over to show belling can be a sign of trust or of scared/submit or while playing a sign to show their "I'm not actually fighting! Just playing!" Loose tail wag( depending on bread will either be horizontal like with labs or vertical like with terriers but you still want loose/relaxed/slow), ears forward, relaxed body, play bow mixed in, head tilts are all signs of being interested and relaxed. Ears back, side eye or also known as whale eye where you can see the whites, panting when not panting before, yawning when not tired, stiff body, tail stiff or tucked, won't stop staring at object/person would be some common signs of uneasiness. It would be hard to know without being Ble to see the other body language.
It could go away, but it can also get worse! If you don't feel like this situation can be managed by you, 100% call a trainer or behaviorist and get someone else to manage it. Some dogs have a short fuse and some have an eternally long one, but at the end of that fuse is teeth and it's up to you to watch for the signs to prevent that whenever a baby and a dog are together. I say this as a huge dog lover who has owned multiple marshmallow dogs.
There is no such thing is "They would never!" Dogs are dogs. One thing that is certain: all dogs will bite a baby. Don't let your baby crawl toward your dog if your dog doesn't have an escape route (ie if your dog is backed into a corner, definitely don't just watch baby crawl closer and closer). You will have to monitor the baby is crawling around your dog until your dog becomes okay with it, if that ever happens. The good news is a growl is your dog's alarm bell. Your dog is feeling threatened and growling to tell baby to stay away. I suspect your baby makes eye contact going toward the dog. Your baby hasn't been crawling, now it's moving at a pace most dogs find threatening, which is to say slow and then fast. Dogs don't like things they don't understand.
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