Kids and Dogs (Looked worse than it was)

We had our first incident with our lab-pug mix puppy 2 days ago. He snapped at my oldest son, catching his lip. It seemed to be an innocent enough thing I guess, but you never want to chance your kids safety. I wish also that I could have seen the whole altercation, but I just saw the aftermath, unfortunately.

Deklan had his head buried on the chair after it happened. He was bit or nicked on the lower lip. Any of you men out there who has ever cut your bottom lip shaving, you know how much it can bleed. I did not know of the snap at the time, I assumed he was just playing on the chair. I heard a muffled cry, so I went to inspect. Deklan had both hands covering his mouth, and I could see blood on his fingers, so I asked him to remove his hands. When he did obviously blood had built up in his cupped hands, and had already smeared all over his face. I was frightened to say the least. Terrified would be the proper word. Deklan at that moment was only crying a little bit, that is until he saw his face in the mirror. You would have thought that he was mauled by a rabid chimpanzee the way that he reacted. The look on his poor little blue eyed face was of utter despair and terror. I looked up a few things on the the internet about behavior of 8-10 month puppies, and it seemed pretty common.

Deklan and Ziggy are best buds, so we are just monitoring the beasties closer, and making sure Deklan isn't torturing the dog or anything like that, which doesn't seem to be the case. You know kids. They do strange things sometimes in the name of self-interest or curiosity. Like stuffing the rest of their sandwich they didn't want to eat under a bathroom sink (I had that one coming). Or seeing how a full roll of Charmin expands when dropped into the toilet. 

They have been back to their old ways since then. Typical kid and dog stuff, creating havoc, eating carpet (yes the children too), etc.