So I was 37m single set on not having kids when I got an Australian cattle dog. Literally the day he got his final parvovirus vaccine I took him out with me to drinks with a couple coworkers where I met my now wife who was a friend of a coworker.
Fast-forward 4 years I’m married have 2 kids (both conceived after marriage tyvm #firstinmyfamily #generationalfamilyissues #omgwhyisthisboomerusing hashtags #causeimaddandalreadyinsideaparenthesies) and my dog is a absolute love but very protective and has a biting problem.
He’s never broken skin on me my wife or kids but he does regularly bite my older daughter. He has broken skin on several people we are close to though. I’m not worried he will mail our daughters but it’s very difficult to have a dog you have to lock away whenever people are over and my wife hates that he bites our daughter.
Should I try and re-house him, are there ways to fix this. I love the guy but he is a problem.
Edit: I would have never gotten an ACD if I thought this was going to be my future. I knew what I was getting into with the breed, I just didn’t think I was ever going to have a family. He does love our daughters too but a two year old doesn’t understand why he bites.
He’s never broken the skin on me my wife or kids only friends or family and not in a very long time because don’t let him around people anymore. We have one friend from the dog park (met then when he was a puppy) we let him around when they come over but only after they’ve been over for a while and we’re still really careful.
The crazy things is he does great when we board him at a place in the cuts. Fine with the people and dogs they love him.