WoofGate

Dogs and Kids

Family dogs, safety, introductions

our five year old lab mix was completely relaxed around our daughter for her first nine months and now that she is crawling he has started leaving the room, lip licking, and last week gave one low growl when she cornered him at his bed, the behavior consult we booked is two weeks out and half the people in my life say hes fine while the other half say rehome him, i need to know what we actually do in the meantime

Cooper is our 5.5 year old lab mix, 74lb, adopted at 18 months, and for four years he has been the most unremarkable good dog you could ask for. when our daughter Nora was born last september he...

Posted by oldlab_steady•
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four month old lab puppy chasing and nipping our twenty two month old toddler at least twenty times a day and the toddler is starting to actually fear her, every source online has a different answer and i need to hear from families who got through this exact window before one of us breaks

Hazel is our 4 month old yellow lab, 28lb at her last vet check, female, we picked her up from a reputable breeder at 9 weeks. our daughter Nora is 22 months, fully walking and running, into...

Posted by beagleDad_Marcus•
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brought our newborn home seven months ago to a three year old golden who had been our only baby for two years and the published advice on the introduction was structurally insufficient in ways i did not understand until i was inside the transition, want to write down the lived version of how a household renegotiates when an infant arrives because the gap between the books and the reality is wider than the books admit

Saoirse is a 3 year old golden retriever who came to us at 9 weeks and was our entire focus for two years before our daughter Pippa was born. She is the textbook calm golden, well socialized, never...

Posted by newborn_dog_intro_seven_months•
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