I have no idea how you found this dog but every pure bred we have owned has been from a breeder whose contract includes they want the dog back if something does not work out including health or behavior. As you did not mention this I am guessing you might not have a sales agreement that stipluates this. I would start by reaching out to tghe breeder. It is clear that you should be on guard at this point with this dog and that is not what you had in mind when you got it. It might be a great dog for someone with more experience and /or no small childern. As was said having had a behaviour "failure" you should not have put your kid back in a position to see if it would happen again. This is not the dog for you.

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Posted by LouisianaTigers

Alvin, TX

Member since Oct 2007

508 posts

Posted on 8/6/23 at 6:23 pm to agilitydawg

I’ll say this, I started training my lab from day one, sit, stay, heel…etc….also, took it all over the place and exposed it to as many environments as possible. I definitely think that training helps establish who the alpha is…the only time my lab got upset was at a cable man that came in the back yard to work in the cable one time….and it growled and showed it’s teeth…never snapped or anything…but I didn’t have kids or anything at the time either….but I will say that kids need to be taught as well as the dog…I don’t know that snapping at a kid warrants putting the dog down but I would definitely address the resource guarding….that can turn into a big problem if not dealt with….I would continue to work on it with your dog and daughter….labs are incredibly smart dogs and it should learn fairly quick.

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