Alright, quick run down of this. We have been together for right at a year I guess and this has been an issue with him since she has had him. He is an 7-8 year old shih tzu and he has been her baby since he was a puppy. He has supposedly bitten numerous people over the years, especially when you pick him up or try to move him when he is on the couch, bed etc... He has bitten me probably at least a dozen times. I have other issues with him other than the biting but those are a different story. Anyhow, she has this cop-out for him that when he was probably a year old he fell on some stairs and hurt his back and it hurts him when you pick him up. I have come to the conclusion that this is not the case anymore because I can pick him up at times and she can too with no issue. It's more along the lines of when you pick him up or move him and "he doesn't want to" he will bite you. I believe she let him get away with biting in the beginning and now he believes that he can get out of doing something by biting someone. And I'm not saying he will nip at you, it is a full on growling and bite to kill reaction. I have scars on fingers to prove it 
. It has just gotten to the point where in the beginning he got a tap, then got a harder tap and we are at full size dog whack to the face and it still doesn't sink in. He is a dominant personality dog, and I could argue he is dominant to her because he don't do hardly anything she tells him to do. I'm being mean to him when I make him do what I tell him to do... My main concern is that he is protective enough of her that he would bite a kiddo when we have kids. He already acts out when she is giving me attention and not him. I have made it clear once or twice that he is done if he ever bites our kid and she needs to figure out how to get control of it. (For the record, he has bitten her 5 year old nephew, but he probably deserved it knowing him).
I guess my question is, anyone got any advice on what to do about this besides calling the TV show for pets from he'll cause that's about where we are at. He is a pretty well behaved dog if he wouldn't bite and bite to kill. Along with the barking and not doing what he is told. It usually causes an argument but I try to let her know that I'm done with the biting and if she would let me treat him like a dog that I could fix part of his issues but I got nothing on the biting. Sorry for the long read, it sounded like it would be short. 
. It has just gotten to the point where in the beginning he got a tap, then got a harder tap and we are at full size dog whack to the face and it still doesn't sink in. He is a dominant personality dog, and I could argue he is dominant to her because he don't do hardly anything she tells him to do. I'm being mean to him when I make him do what I tell him to do... My main concern is that he is protective enough of her that he would bite a kiddo when we have kids. He already acts out when she is giving me attention and not him. I have made it clear once or twice that he is done if he ever bites our kid and she needs to figure out how to get control of it. (For the record, he has bitten her 5 year old nephew, but he probably deserved it knowing him). I guess my question is, anyone got any advice on what to do about this besides calling the TV show for pets from he'll cause that's about where we are at. He is a pretty well behaved dog if he wouldn't bite and bite to kill. Along with the barking and not doing what he is told
. It usually causes an argument but I try to let her know that I'm done with the biting and if she would let me treat him like a dog that I could fix part of his issues but I got nothing on the biting. Sorry for the long read, it sounded like it would be short.
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