Minnie bit a little girl!

[sumbirdy]

My mom's friend brought her five year old girl to our house the other day and Minnie bit her! I don't get it. Minnie has never shown aggression to anyone before (not even so much as a growl). She didn't bite the girl very hard, more of a scratch really. The mother said it was okay and she had been bitten before. I wasn't out there so I don't know if the little girl did something to provoke Minnie to bite her or not. :confused: Has your dog ever bitten someone? What did you do?

[Canis-Lupess]

Ah, best thing with small children and dogs, never ever leave them alone together even for a second because thats all it takes.

Even a dog that never bit anyone before can still bite if they are pushed enough. Children can sometimes be intentionally mean but, most of the time, it is just a case of them being overly friendly in a way that looks threatening to a dog. This is why it is so important to always closely supervise children and dogs together.
I doubt your dog intended to hurt the child but the child probably did do something that frightened the dog. Maybe she tried to put her face too close in order to hug her or something...?

Our Jess, who is now 13, snapped at a toddler in the street at the end of last summer when his dippy mother allowed him to run up to her and he grabbed her head on either side and pushed his face right up to hers. Jess was on the lead when it happened. The stupid mother went off one one saying Jess should be muzzled and all the rest and called the police out on me. Obviously, I had a go back at her in self defence.
Three weeks later, they did come out but they agreed Jess wasn't out of control in a public place because she was on lead, she has never bitten anyone before in the whole 12 and a half years of her life and the stupid mother had let her child run up and grab her without making any attempt to stop him.
I now detest that woman and hope she rots in hell. She was expecting me to have Jess muzzled from then on and even stopped me and challenged me in the street about it a few weeks later but I told her there was nothing she could do and there wasn't. She should have kept better control of her kid. Anyone with a brain in their head wouldn't allow a small toddler to run up and grab a strange dog so she obviously is lacking in the intelligence department.
One of the police officers who did come out came to assess the dogs and found them to be perfectly friendly even though they were on the garden, their own territory. He decided there was nothing dangerous about them and admitted his own dogs would have bitten a kid had they run and done that to them. He was a dog handler with the sounds of it.

All the other people I told agreed that it was her fault that her toddler got snapped at and weren't in the least surprised that our Jess did snap at him. My dad said he was lucky she only snapped at him because some dogs would have his face off for that. She was hoping to get me into more trouble but she didn't. I'll just sit back and watch what went round to come round as it does and I'll enjoy it when it does and, if I get an opportunity, I might give it a helping hand.