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Tony, so what would you suggest? I teach her to stroke his back, or get her to copy me when rubbing his tummy etc. I am teaching her to be gentle, but that doesnt help when Squishy will growl and bite. He bit my daughter again this afternoon in the backyard while they were playing. deelee2 - thanks I have contacted my friend at the rescue organisation and spoken to her, and she has suggested that Squishy thinks he is higher in the pecking order than my daughter, and they have suggested trying 'NILIF' so I will try that and see how I go I guess.

Thanks, I will get him checked out with the vet and see if anything is wrong with him. deelee2 - No, that is not too harsh I was thinking the same thing, but I feel so guilty because he was a rescue dog to begin with and was great with the foster carers kids, although I think they were older than my two girls.

I have two rescue dogs... the ChiX is 5yo and we have only had him for 3 1/2 months or so. I have 2 little girls who are 3 1/2 and 21 months. The 21mo just loves the dogs, and helps me feed them, get them water and loves to cuddle them. Squishy (ChiX) was great with the kids when he first arrived, but in the last few weeks he has been getting increasingly grumpy, he now growls at my youngest daughter whenever she starts to head in his direction. I monitor her with him and I am trying to teach her to be gentle but even when she is being gentle and stroking his back or his belly he still growls at her 2 weeks ago when my Grandmother babysat my girls, Squishy bit my youngest daughter on the hand He did break the skin but it wasnt a bad bite IYKWIM, she didnt need stitches or anything. Then just before, she was cuddling him (and not too tightly, I was right there) and he bit her again on the face, just below her eye. He didnt break the skin this time but it really scared me and of course she screamed. So I know he is probably scared and wary of her but what can I do about him? I will admit my first reaction is that he has bitten my daughter twice, he needs to go. But he is a lovely little dog apart from this, he just doesnt seem to like my daughter very much and now I am scared that he will not only bite my kids again, but Im not sure if I can trust him around other children... Anyway. Long story, but what is the best course of action? Can I fix this problem, or am I going to have to rehome him (which I dont want to do, but I will if there is the chance he will bite again) ?

How do you stop the dog from eating the actual bone? I have been watching my LabX and she will eat almost everything, and leave only very little bone stubs on the grass...

Thankyou Cazxxz. What do you mean by weight bearing bones? The bones are a variety of different shapes and sizes, and all of them have marrow and a small amount of fat, gristle and meat on them... I have bought my younger dog chew toys, and one of those rubber chew toys that you put food in (tried it with peanut butter) but she is not interested in chewing on anything except for those beef bones. Oh, and my daughters stuffed toys lol, but I would rather she didnt chew on them

Hi, I am new to this forum and not sure whether this is the right place for this question but I am happy for it to be moved I was just wondering how often is too often to give your dogs beef bones? I get a big bag of beef bones from my local butcher and are not huge bones, smaller than marrow bones anyway. I have 2 dogs a ChiX and a LabX, and the LabX I only got last week (rescue). She is 11mo and is still in the chewing phase... I have been giving her a beef bone each day to chew on, it keeps her occupied for anywhere up to 3 hours during the day but I am not sure if its good for her diet to be having a bone every day? My ChiX is not as fussed with the bones, he licks the marrow out and then leaves the rest.