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01-16-2008, 05:14 PM #1 (**permalink**)

Hi everyone,

My wife and I just got a 14 week old Boston named Spencer. He is very friendly and playful with everyone except little kids. The first occurrence was when my year and a half old nephew got close to his face and made a high pitched sound. Our boston just growled for a couple of seconds and snapped at my nephew. This seemed weird because at first they both seemed to play well together, and the dog didn't show any signs of being scared. This incident happened the second day that we got him, so we didn't think much of it. Well, couple of days ago we visited another 2 year old nephew of ours, and same thing happened. Don't know if the dog is still adjusting because at home he seems like the most harmless little thing we have ever seen. Does anybody else experience the same thing? Anything that we should do to make him comfortable around kids?