[pbhound]

My Raven was on the living room floor chewing on a pig twist, my daughter (who is 6) came up and sat next to her and looked at her, this is when Raven growled very aggressivly at my daughter; (this is the first time she has ever done this in the 8 months that we have had her; she is 11 months old). we have always played with her food as she was eating, taken bones from her as she was chewing on them, and even rubbed her face cheaks, and chin/jaw, even had the kids do it while we were supervising it. but this is the first time she has ever gotten even remotely aggressive with anything that resembles food. i took every chew/toy from her and gated her in the dinning room as a punishment, and we are goign to start to play with her food again as she eats just to try and prevent this from happening again, i just want any suggestions as to why she would start to do this now....

as i said that we have punished her by gating her into the dinning room away from the rest of us, she is whining so much and talking you would think we are beating her, i dont know how long i can keep her in there before i get sick of her whining. my wife wants me to do it over night to help it sink in that she is not aloud to growl at anyone like that. (she has a growl that she uses when she talks to us, she thinks she is a person and has to get the last word in most of the time).

any and all suggestion/questions will be appreciated