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Does he lunge at the food you are offering, like our spaniel does? You have to toss a treat or hold your hand out flat like feeding a horse, or you'll get nipped. She got me on the right pinky weeks ago, and the nail has just cleared the nail bed from the bite. The wife uses high volume aversion therapy to get her to not lunge at treats, but I prefer to just toss it or use an open hand.

He actually takes treats very nicely, as does my other male.  The little female, the oldest of the pack, will take a finger off if you aren't careful.

Ziggy lays near the food bowl when Quinn tries to eat.  He doesn't do anything to stop him from being able to eat but it drives Quinn crazy (which isn't a long trip).  When he was little he did this weird purring noise...it sounds a little tougher now but not much.  We call it "The Great Food Bowl Standoff".  It's an every day thing.

We started off feeding the spaniel in our bedroom after we adopted her. The pound people were going to destroy her because they considered her "vicious", and didn't want us to adopt her. My wife saw something there that convinced her that the dog wasn't vicious. She has issues, for sure. We still can't feed the two dogs side by side, for example. I'd say that based on her treatment at the pound, I can understand her not liking medical people. Whenever she sees that sort of clothing, she gets upset. They rolled her up in a towel to do their work, which I can appreciate that she didn't like. When I'm out walking her, she gets her back up at gardeners and roofers, for example. Not sure what to make of that, though. She also doesn't like people with their trousers hanging off their asses.   I suspect that there may have been people dressing so in her past, who didn't treat her well. She's going to the vet tomorrow for a dental cleaning. Given that she gets upset enough to have accidents whenever she goes to the vet, I'm expecting it now. Poor thing. Our little Maltese dogs weren't smart enough to be traumatized like that. They were little sweeties.