I'll give you some advice on teaching your kids not to bite or growl when you take something away or go near their food. From now on, every piece of food they get, comes from your hand. No yummy treats yet. Just dog food. Then you teach them that you can take anything back out of their mouths and you do not allow them to so much as growl at you.
Once they learn that, let them eat from their dish, give them the sit command, and do not allow them to eat until you say, "OK". Every so often, as they are eating from their dish, reach in and put something in their dish while they are eating. If they growl, go back to hand feeding.
Once you're back to being able to take things out of their mouth, try the food dish again.
It will take time, but it can be done.
I've done this since my girls (9 years & 12 years) were puppies.
To this day, I can reach in their food dishes and they don't so much as growl.
A piece of food can fall on the floor next to their dish and I can pick it up and hand it to them.
It was an important lesson as I knew the day would come that I would have grandchildren and I didn't want to risk my grand-babies getting bitten.
Good Luck!
Sheila |