I wish I could witness the dogs behavior. My puppies growl when they play but never in a bad way. It is so hard to know if the dog is trying to play with the little girl.
I hope everything gets worked out. I still highly recommend training classes with the dog. It will help them to understand what is going on.
I relate to my dogs so well and I have a lot of experience so I am pretty comfy knowing what my dogs are trying to do. It comes from experience of owning dogs all my life and also taking training classes with previous dogs. I am able to do the training of my dogs pretty good. I have even worked with friend's dogs that they could not train because I really connect well with dogs. I show the person how to train (that I learned in training classes) and point them in the right direction.
Please look into a training class and you can address this with the trainer and they can help you.
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