I agree with DocE, Drgildy, and kdvollmer.You can curb that behavior with the dog, but you need to act RIGHT AWAY when the incident happens. If you don't get it across to her immediately the first time (or the second time as the case my be), you're kindaletting her know she is above the baby in the heirarchy. My older brown dog (who is ten) had a go around with me at about 8 months. He was feeling his oats and wanted to be boss (he had a chicken wing and dove under the truck). We had a mini brawl of sort, but I never really hurt him. Anyhoo,he lost and was neutered within 16 hours. (andI was down one coffee tablethat he was hiding under untilI threw it across the room ). I can reach in his mouth and take food out while he's chewing. [:'(]I also did this (the food conditioning, not breaking another coffe table) with our younger black pup.

I was bitten in the face by a white german shepard when I was four. I sat there in the yard with my friend petting him gently, and he bit me. To this day, I can't figure for the life of me what went wrong to trigger that incident. There's a good possibility me being bitten was uncalled for, but once you start pulling out pigears and stuff, I do believe they could exercise some bad judgement like your pup did. Personally, I wouldn't give up on her, and I would teachthe babyto be gentle and respectful to the dog, and when the dog may be saying it needs a little alone time (when it's trying to walk away) to respect that. I have three nieces and a nephew, and whenever they're aroundourboys, my wife and I are on alert.Once you know your dog well, you will be able sense what's going intheir mind just by body language.No doubt, the baby should be higher in the pack order. You can keep that dog from doing that ever again without shooting her or just giving up on her - train her. Good luck!


P.S.
This rings true with me as well.