Should I keep my (wife's) dog away from my new baby?

[JasonK]

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I'd worry more about the dog biting him than anything else.

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Me too. Infants and toddlers obv have no clue how to interact with animals. My littlest (almost 3) loves to try and ride my dalmation. Luckily he has a great temperment and puts up with the kid without more than an occasional growl.

[DrewDevil]

Good to hear all this.

BTW there's no real chance of the dog biting him, she never bites and her teeth are TINY (probably less than a 1/4 inch long) and most of them have fallen out anyway.

[Badger]

I missed the part saying the dog was 10 pounds. If it were any older you might have to worry abut the dog getting old and snappy towards a toddler who might grab/pull/poke/push the dog. Sounds like the dog wouldn't be likely to do any permanant damage, but it would still be unfortunate.

[gamblore99]

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My littlest (almost 3) loves to try and ride my dalmation

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This sounds adorable.

[CrazyEyez]

How about training the dog? There's no reason it needs to do any of that behavior you described. That's ridiculous.

[DrewDevil]

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How about training the dog? There's no reason it needs to do any of that behavior you described. That's ridiculous.

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Eh, my wife does not/will not exert very much discipline over the dog and had her for 5 years before we met. To train the dog I'd have to take off a week from work AND get full support from my wife, which ain't gonna happen.

We're moving into a house soon and the dog will have a yard, which should help with some of the indoor peeing and crapping.

[Stagger_Lee]

Every time a dog bites a kid moronic owners say things like "It's so out of character" , "He's NEVER done that before" - well of course he hasn't , if he had some parent would have wrung your dogs neck.

Don't trust dogs around kids.