Please help

[purplehippo]

Hi

I'm new here and really need some help.

We have a greyhound who was from dogs trust, we've had him around 3 years, we had for around year and half before we had a baby. We kept baby and cooper (greyhound) separate as cooper would just run around and not notice baby. We then had to move house and moved in with grabdfather. We still kept cooper and baby/toddler separate up until toddler was walking. Eventually we took divide down as Coopers behaviour was changing, Barking more and nipping/nibbling as you walked through the divide.

As toddler has got older he obviously finds cooper interesting and as much as we say no the toddler still ends up bothering him, cooper has snapped few times to say no. But coopers behaviour is getting more and more bothering, if any of us are getting ready to go out cooper will bark and nip and pull at clothes. When toddler bedtime comes he knows and starts Barking, he has also started Barking at husband when he is downstairs alone with him.

We have tried and tried as we love cooper, but we are starting to think we may have to remove as it's becoming stressful on all of us. I hate the thought but it's not fair on cooper either.

Has anyone any suggestions?
We've tried dap collar it helps for about a day.

Thanks
Natasha

[lurcherlot]

I believe your huge mistake was to seperate Cooper from the baby to start off with. From his point of view, Cooper was your 'baby' until your human baby arrived and suddenly there is something from, as far as he's concerned, outer space - I imagine he's very hurt.
If you had allowed him to see the baby initially, I'm sure the resulting problems wouldn't have happened at all. How you sort out the problem now, I really don't know - hopefully somebody will come along with a satisfactory answer.

[purplehippo]

Thankyou for your reply, I just wanted to clear something up. He wasn't separated completely just when baby/toddler was on the floor ie led, crawling etc he was separated however when baby/toddler was in chair or playpen etc cooper was in the same room.

[sassbu]

I'm sorry I haven't had children with dogs so cannot give you advice but am sure there are folks who will come along and comment in the next 24 hours