Poll: Has your dog ever growled at you?

[PJ's Mom]

Peej and Bailey know better than to growl at me. I'm not afraid of them, and test them every so often by taking away a treat, toy or food. They're perfectly fine with it and they only growl when they're playing.

My RB Opus used to growl all the time and eventually attacked my daughter.

[Oggyflute]

My dogs have never growled at me. Oggy did once when a pup at Carole, and I told her to get up him and growl back louder and harder, act angry etc. Which she did, and Oggy has never done it since. We have always been able to take food from there mouths, and touch them anywhere on there body. You really have to have that in place when a pup, you just never know when you have to put your hand down your dogs mouth.

[Samantha Puppy]

Never. The only time she's ever snapped or growled is when Kirin (the kitten) has gotten too close to her while she's eating ice cream.

You don't screw around with a girl and her ice cream!

[melandchico]

No my dog has never growled at me. We tried to avoid any posessive behavoir since we got him at 8 weeks because often they growl at their owners only because they have something they don't want you to have. This doesn't necessarily meen that they will bite or attack you but it's still not something my husband or I would tolerate our dog doing. We don't have children yet but are planning to in the next year or so and we wouldn't take the chance. Since Goliath was a baby we tested him, take away his toy, his bone, his food etc.... Never had a problem. As soon as we reach for it he sits and gives it to us and patiently waits until we give it back. He doesn't even growl at other dogs, the neighbors dog took his bone right out of his mouth and Goliath sat and waited for him to give it back, needless to say I had to go get him another one. It was pretty funny.

[cali]

It's not in a vicious way though, I swear...though it rather looks that way. He's a husky...they are vocal dogs. He "talks" when he's upset. If I hug him or try to snuggle with him, he growls and grunts. If I pick him up at all he makes awful growling noises. He's all talk though, never once have I felt those growls were actually real...he has never snapped at me viciously.

lol nebo sounds like Shadow, she at her new place she is refered to as the "grumpy bitch" lol if you tease her she crys if you run her belly she growls but its a happy growl, I refere to it as her versian of a "purr" and also growls and grumbles at everything lol Happy talks, but not with gowls, more like mumbles and moans lol if she is bored she lets it be known with a long low moan lol

[cyber-sibes]

Star and Sherman growl all the time. (And after reading this site, maye it's a husky thing) I can't think of any time Sherman growled at me, but Star has on a couple occasions, when I try to make her stop doing something (like licking a wound) and she does NOT want to be interrupted. While she's never bit me, she has snapped her head around and hit my hand with her teeth a couple times - ouch!
Sherman growls at other dogs and people all the time, sometimes pretty menacingly. I think it may be because of his poor eyesight - he really hates having anyone close to his face.

[wolfsoul]

Timber has never growled at me in a mean way, but when I am training her and she is getting fed up, but will let out this growl/moan type thing as if to say "I'm tired of this, I need a break."

I had a rottweiler, Zoe, who used to growl at me in a very aggressive way. She scared me. I'm sure that if I were to growl back she would have attacked me. She was very dominant and saw me as a threat. Luckily whenever she would start to growl at me, Leather would attack her. Leather was boss, and Zoe knew it. Leather would have protected me from anything.

[jackie]

tito has an obesssion with rocks, and if i ever try to pick up one of hos rocks, he growls and tries to lay across the stone so i can reach it. LOL

it doesn't bother me, because it doesn't seem to be aggressive, more his way of saying "leave my rock alone"!