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[quote=Anonymous]I would only take advice from the behaviorist.

We rehomed a dog when we had a baby and a toddler who had a sensory integration disorder and they used to grab at the dog and squeeze it too hard.
We had to keep the dog behind gates all of the time and physically separate him from the children (and we were having therapists come into the home to work with the children, too).

It so happened that we had a friend who was looking for a dog like ours who had an older child and the parent was a part-time worker who was home a lot and wanted company in the house during the day.

We did go to a vet for advice.  We thought the dog had cancerous cysts as well.  It turned out the dog had great health and many years of life left in them.
The vet let us know that if the dog bit one of our kids, even if my kid caused it, they would be euthanized by the time we got home from the ER.

We tried:

Training
Moving to a house with a fenced in yard
Gates 
Medication
Vet advice
Animal rescue volunteer advice

We were very conflicted about it, but we also didn't ask for our child to have these characteristics that were not good for the dog (and we worked and worked on it) so:

TALK TO ANIMAL EXPERTS and listen to your gut.

If people on the internet think you are a bad person, oh well. You are going to get extreme opinions on both sides here, because those are the people who are passionate enough to post.

Your dog is under a year old and that's a really adoptable age.

My dog now is possessive of food and it is so easy to manage because just all know how to work around it.  We have a 2nd dog who also has learned to give the hungry dog some space. [/quote]

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