My son is VERY gentle. He tried to pet her because he loves doggies. Not grab, just a pet. Bam. She's growled before at both kids, immediately knew it was wrong, then skulked outside.
Snapping, however, is an escalation. All it takes is a kid (kids run through the house, after all) falling on her, or god forbid they try to be nice to her. That was pretty much a 50/50 chance of dog rolling over to be nice, or a growl. and yes, she'd had full work ups at the vet to determine if anything was wrong (bloods drawn, the works).
Fobbing her off on the pound I obviously thought about briefly, but I'd feel responsible, and she has growled at both my wife and I many times (she'd growl most times from her crate if we got up in the night, and a really serious, ugly growl (though shar pei sound that way often regardless cause they have fat faces)).
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