re: Dog Help Advice Needed- Growling and Baring Teeth

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The dog is challenging you as the Alpha. Bigger dogs always go through that phase

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Yep, next time it happens, pop it in the nose firmly. If it happens again after that, knock the ever living crap out of the dog. Guaranteed it won't happen again unless you are hurting the dog somehow. My GSP has displasia and will sometime growl a bit when you move her but she is 10 now and she can do what she pleases at this point.