Possessive Traits

Question
Our family recently got a male Siberian Husky puppy (born 12/1/10). We have owned a female husky in the past but had her 4 years before our children came along. Suka has potty trained quickly, learned "sit" "down" and "drop" and is extremely sweet and mellow with myself and my husband.  He eats everything from socks to napkins, washcloths or toys..and not chews, swallows in record time.  If you try and take them from him he growls and snaps at you.  He has only done it to my husband once who put him in his place and never again.  My problem is he's done it to my 3 year old son and bit his cheek and then my 5 year old daughter biting her lip and nose.  I am extremely nervous of this vicious streak when he gets something he isn't interested in giving you. Now I can get him to drop the item, but my kids just quickly react by trying to take it.  Any thoughts on how I can get him to relax with my kids and not snap at them. I'm so fearful I'll either have to give him away or something severe is going to happen to one of them.  Thank you so much for any advice you can offer.

Answer
Danielle, you have a very serious problem and need professional in-person help.  You are seeing resource guarding/possession aggression taken to an extreme with injuries to your children.  Resource guarding is something that can be mitigated, but possibly never completely remedied.  Besides this, the fact that he's consuming non-edible items is particularly troublesome and will end up being very costly in vet bills.  

Please visit one of these sites to find a qualified trainer in your area:

http://www.karenpryoracademy.com/find-a-trainer
http://www.apdt.com/petowners/ts/default.aspx
http://iaabc.org/consultants

I'm sorry that I can't be of more help via this page, but I consider it to be far too serious when there is continuing possibility of injuries to children.  The good news is that he isn't too old and there is hope that his behavior can be changed.