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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Okay, I’m talking from experience
here, I’ve adopted several severely abused dogs in the past, and they are
wonderful, loving dogs, but you have to understand and accept their
limitations. This dog doesn’t hate kids, she’s AFRAID of kids,
which probably means there were small children in her previous home who were
allowed to hurt her. Can you teach her to not be afraid of small
children? Depends on how severe the abuse was, but she’ll probably
always be afraid of little kids. Can she learn to be around your young
nieces safely? Because of how young they are, I’d be concerned,
kids under 4 years old are very unpredictable and don’t think about their
actions or consider consequences, so it’s very likely they’re going
to do things that frighten the dog. You would always have to make sure
that you watched her and the kids very, very carefully and never left the kids
alone with the dog. She might learn to accept the kids, or she might
always be afraid of them, you’d just have to give it time and see. To
be honest, if you like the dog and want to adopt her, I’d suggest crating
her or putting her in a separate room with a closed and latched door any time little
kids are around. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org [mailto:dailydrool-bounces@dailydrool.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Paul Chinn<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 12, 2010 9:24
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> dailydrool@dailydrool.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Dailydrool] Need advice
with a hound who hates kiddies</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I lost my elderly hound to cancer about a month or so ago. For
the last few weeks I've been looking at other dogs to be a companion to my
cocker spaniel. I've looked at other breeds, but I keep being drawn back
to various hounds and particularly bassets. Their generally ambivalence
to everyone is something I love for some reason. Anyway, I met a female
hound in the local shelter today. She love belly rubs and sniffing
anything she can get her nose into. Typical basset. However, she
doesn't seem food motivated at all. I had a container of treats sitting
on the chair in the meeting room and not once did she go after it. She
sniffed it, then went about sniffing the other items in the room. She
also hates kids apparently. They said they had her meet a family earlier this
week and when she saw the kids she hid under a chair. When the kids
approached her, she growled and bared her teeth. I've got three nieces
under 4 who would be around the dog at some point. Is there any way to
train this out of a hound? They tell me she has no problems with older
kids (13+).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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