• RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    Our dog is normally a sweet little dude but has a resource guarding problem we haven’t managed to train out of him. He’ll snap and/or nip at me if I try to get him to drop something he picked up on a walk, if I walk too close to a meal he doesn’t want but also doesn’t want me to have, if I hand my mom something when they’re on the couch together (she is apparently a resource)

    But he’s a dinky little toy mix and weighs 25 pounds max, so the worst it ever gets is a little nick on my toe. Scale that up to a dog twice that weight at minimum and a big bite and what would be annoying in my case is life threatening in hers.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah they probably wouldn’t go for the kill on purpose, but again, when it’s a 50-150lbs dog with a wide jaw and a lot of force behind it, what might’ve been a wash and neosporin situation with a smaller dog could be lethal.