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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah dogs bite. They are animals. I hate how people try to minimize every animal behavior or kill them. Not really necesary. Like when a mamma bear runs after a person or gets aggressive when she has cubs so we kill the bear?? WTF! 
   Granted, pet dog should be trained not to bite and many breeds are clearly bad pet choices in general which is not bad dog/ but stupid human getting wrong dog.
   All that being said, just because a dog bites doesn’t mean we kill it. This is a cavalier bichon mix- and usually good pet breed but this one is apparently nervous and anxious - vet said personality on this dog is he likes quiet and calm. So getting right in his face threatens him. Granted I would like to rehome to no kid- he is terrific with me and my husband and other son- but 14 year old daughter is loud and scared him.
   Bottom line he was being a dog- a dog not good with kids- so we need to change his environment.  We’ve tried training. He really is sweet 90% of the time but he doesn’t like to have you right in his face or near his food. 
    
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Hang in there OP.  I have a rescue dog that has not bitten my teenage boy, but my son is sometimes an idiotic older brother purposefully antagonizing the dog and the dog responds aggressively (shocker). And, if my dog did bite him, I'd keep the dog and re-train the 16 year old.  Re the face injury, I suspect that whatever minor imperfection that remains will not be life-altering.  If I'm wrong, you can get it addressed later. If your DD wear's makeup, perhaps it won't be noticeable at all. I speak from experience as my DH has significant facial scarring from a car accident. These things take a long time to heal completely so you won't know how it really looks for possibly more than a year.  But honestly, as we all have little imperfections, my DH actually blames some worry lines on his accident--HA!  Try not to project too much worry on your DD, tell her she's beautiful and this will heal, and if it bothers here later, you'll deal with it after it heals. [/quote]

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