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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  This is interesting.  Other than this, dog is not aggressive.  It's a small dog and it hadn't occurred to me that dog is not ok with kids.  Clearly, a bite from a small dog is no good, but I hadn't thought that was a possibility.  Dog is totally find around everyone else and fine around husband during the day.  It's just when husband comes home from work at night (often/usually the rest of the house is asleep by then and husband is trying to do the last walk of the night).[/quote]

Perhaps your husband carries in a smell your dog doesn't like. Does his workplace allow pets, or does his coworkers have animals at home? My dog does a sniff inspection on all of us when we come in to find out where we've been and who we've been with :-) He gets particularly interested after we come home from the weekly violin lesson, because DD's teacher has 3 cats.

Or perhaps the dog just doesn't like to be disturbed at night. Does he react the same way if YOU walk him at night?[/quote]
Maybe he does smell differently at night.  That's an interesting theory that might get at it.  No animals in workplace but I do not know if his coworkers have animals.  I hope he's not getting close enough to coworkers to start carrying their animal scents, though!  However, he does take the metro and the bus.  I don't try to walk the dog after the kids go to sleep.  But I did walk the dog last night a bit earlier than that and while we were out we saw my husband coming home.  Dog goes up to my husband and crouches down for a pet, while growling.  The common denominators are that it's directed at only my husband, and only at night.  [/quote]
Crouching down is not typically a solicitation for petting. [/quote]

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