On another note, she did bite my son a couple days ago... BOTH of them got in trouble for it!! I had gotten a rib bone for cinder to gnaw on... and she was happily enjoying herself in the kitchen... I was sitting at the kitchen table, and my son (edwin) was watching tv/playing on his tablet/doing whatever 4 yr old boys do/playing...
Well he came in the kitchen and decided he wanted to get right in Cinder's face for a kiss/pet/whatever.. she growled at him... and he backed up... I told him that he needed to leave her alone, and I told cinder she needed to relax...
Edwin leaves and comes back to do it again... Cinder growls again.... I get up and tell him he needs leave her alone, and I make eye contact with cinder and sternly tell her relax and be nice...
About 5 mins go by and sure enough Edwin comes back to try again... this time Cinder doesn't warn him and let's out a short bark with a snap of her jaws and gets his hand... as soon as edwin starts crying Cinder is instantly remorseful of her action and tries to get in his face to lick his tears... but edwin isn't having it, and this mom is fed up with both of them... .. Cinder gets sent to the kennel (she pouts the whole way) and once checking his hand (mostly looks like a scratch, but she did draw a little blood) Mr. Edwin gets sent to sit on the couch...
I go in and have a talk with Edwin about what happened... he understood why he got bit (cinder is just like him and is young and her bone was her toy and she didn't want to share) and he found out the hard way he needs to listen to mommy (what 4 yr old listens ALL the time...lol)
And after cinder had calmed down... I got her out of the kennel, got the bone, got edwin, and I got down on the floor and we sat there and worked on edwin giving her the bone... taking it away... and working with cinder to understand her aggressive behavior wasn't going to be tolerated, but also teaching cinder that edwin wasn't out to take her precious bone and that I wasn't going to allow him to bully her either...
Im sure I could have been more preemptive in preventing what happened, but I think I did pretty good with taking the situation to the learning level it needed to be...
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