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Originally Posted by foshizzle11
It sounds like the family was in bed together with the new born, mom, dad and the family dog, something spooked the dog and he bit the baby's head. I honestly don't know what the dog is thinking, that this little thing is threatening?
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Dog trainers advise against letting your dog in bed with you. Dogs are instinctively hierarchical animals. In their minds, all of their relations in the household are defined by where they are in the hierarchy. If your dog sleeps on your bed, your dog thinks it's your equal (something to do with height). Experts say you shouldn't even let a dog up on the couch, for the same reason - you want your dog to understand that it's subordinate to you.
Now, I don't know why this dog bit the infant. But the dog's likely confusion around hierarchy and where the baby and it sat in that hierarchy probably didn't help.