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Originally Posted by malamute
I'd be more worried about training the dog and preparing the dog for the older baby, when it's crawling and investigating food bowls or trying to take something out of the dog's mouth. Start giving the dog food by hand, and taking it back, make sure the dog understands that humans have the right to take food right out of it's mouth because food issues are often what creates problems. A crawling baby going up to the dog's food bowl can get nipped in the face unless the dog is trained to know humans dominate the food bowl and no questions asked.
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Good call! I had forgotten about this because we train all of our dogs from puppyhood not to be possessive of food, but I agree it's hugely important to teach the dogs to tolerate being pushed, pulled, prodded, having a small one touch their faces/grab their tails even told not to, etc. I also agree that the toddler years require even more monitoring of child-pet interactions than the early months do.
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