Why you should protect your dog from your child #328

mrcol1000

denice37 wrote: »

i've got to defend the mother a bit here, it's impossible to watch two 4 year olds constantly and a litter of pup's and kids have a knack of getting into trouble in zero seconds. Also the child wouldn't have meant to harm the pup,

Would you have said that if the dog had been a bit older and attacked the 4 year old?

SnowyOwl_2

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Would you have said that if the dog had been a bit older and attacked the 4 year old?

Ahhh but if the puppy had been a bit older and had "attacked" the child in the same situation it would actually have been defending itself. I wonder what would have happened to the animal then.

denice37

but the dog didn't attack the child, this is completely out of context, god the mother was probably just as mortified over it all i'm saying is that you can't watch over twins all the time, be totally impossible. At end of day it was a toddler be totally different if child had been older.

Misty_Blue

denice37 wrote: »

a litter of pup's and kids have a knack of getting into trouble in zero seconds.

I totally agree with you. Therefore, the idiot parents should have thought about this before breeding their dog.

If the pups' mother had snapped at the kid for taking one of her pups I daresay the parents would blame the dog... :rolleyes:

foreign_correspondent

denice37 wrote: »

i've got to defend the mother a bit here, it's impossible to watch two 4 year olds constantly and a litter of pup's and kids have a knack of getting into trouble in zero seconds. Also the child wouldn't have meant to harm the pup,

yes, you are right - shame the mother of the four year olds never considered this very pertinent point before deciding to breed her dog! :rolleyes:

I know of someone whose dog came from a home like this, where the children were allowed to rag the pup around like toys - the dog is about four now and cannot be trusted around children as she is absolutely terrified of them.

frivolous_fay

withabix wrote: »

Probably not a good time to tell the story of my eldest daughter when she was about 3, a whelly boot and our pet guinea pig then....

Yeah, I was thinking too... not a good time to tell the story one of my teachers told me about when she was little and had kittens...

twentypenceoff

frivolous_fay wrote: »

Yeah, I was thinking too... not a good time to tell the story one of my teachers told me about when she was little and had kittens...

was she in the news? not often a human child has kittens.:rotfl:

marshallka

denice37 wrote: »

i've got to defend the mother a bit here, it's impossible to watch two 4 year olds constantly and a litter of pup's and kids have a knack of getting into trouble in zero seconds. Also the child wouldn't have meant to harm the pup,

You could make sure the pups are protected by installing a stair gate or something like whereby the kids could not get at the pups in the firstplace.

I do agree its not the kids fault though although I am trying to think back to when mine were that age and I would certainly like to think that my kids would have known better even at that age.