How do i rehome our border collie?

shirlgirl2004

TBH I don't think it matters whether you can get the dog off. It only takes seconds to cause fatal injury or major disfigurement neither of which I would want inflicted upon my children. It doesn't stop me owning 6 dogs though. If my daughter torments the dogs which she will on occassion, when she's tired, then the dogs are removed from the room both for their safety and the safety of my daughter.

scrimpandsaver

I myself would find it impossible to get an angry aggressive rottie, or other big dog off a child, which is why I firmly believe those and kids should not be allowed together, and i pray to god they make it the law that anyone who has both one of these dogs and small children have to get rid.

Any dog biting is unacceptable, but you need to know your own judgement and think what would you do or what could you do if this dog turned aggressive, and I am sure in many cases you could not overpower the dog at all.

Obedience is one thing, but us as humans know and can tell someone when we have had enough, a dog cannot do that, a toddler cannot control their emotions, whats to say if an angry toddler was in such a rage, that it caused the lowly family pet to lash out at them, no it isn't the childs fault as this is part and parcel of normal toddler behaviour.

The amount of times I have heard it said that our dog is the most placid thing in the world, the kids sit on it, and share it's basket etc etc, and yet the dog suddenly bites. I personally don't agree with people etting their kids clamber over the pet dogs, or sleep in the dogs bed, this is the dogs personal space and by doing this you are asking for trouble.

moneywise22

foxybabe wrote: »

try dog training classes!!!!! I think its disgusting that people will dump a dog as soon as a baby comes along.

I agree. Your dog has become attached to you and trusts you. He wont understand why you have given him away and will probably get depressed .

You have a responsibility to your dog, he is part of your family as much as your baby. Your baby does not come first where there are no problems with the dog. I think you are just using the baby as an excuse. The novelty has wore off now you have something else to do. Shame on you.

milkydrink

moneywise22 wrote: »

You have a responsibility to your dog, he is part of your family as much as your baby. Your baby does not come first where there are no problems with the dog

Are you for real!!!!!!!!!

I hope to God you don't have children!!!!!!!!!!!

milkydrink

shirlgirl2004 wrote: »

TBH I don't think it matters whether you can get the dog off. .

I think it MATTERS GREATLY IF YOU CAN GET THE DOG OFF & also how quickly you can get the dog off. I think that is a rather foolish thing to say.

loopydonna

conradmum wrote: »

Would you then think it would be okay for the dog to snap at the toddler?

I don't have a dog.

My toddler is at the fridge stage, and recently got a shock when I turned my back for a second and she took a milk bottle out and dropped it.

I think the people that are talking about placid family pets snapping when provoked are thinking along the same lines as me. Toddler was told not to open the fridge and get the milk out, and then got a shock when the bottle broke, and I blamed her for doing it. In the same way toddler would be told not to poke dog or whatever, and then would get a shock when dog had enough and snapped.

I'm just trying to understand it from all sides, as the people with pet dogs seem to be getting a very hard time from some people on here, which I think is unfair.

relay

I have a 6 year old who could easily knock a toddler over, I think i should get rid of him before i get too attached. :rotfl:

mouseymousey99

just please never ever get another aninmal...............................................

sleepymy

scrimpandsaver wrote: »

and i pray to god they make it the law that anyone who has both one of these dogs and small children have to get rid.

Why? So people like you, prone to hysteria can tell others how to raise their children? Are you saying farmers shouldn't have children then? There are much more dangerous animals on farms than dogs.

Something a lot of you seem to be missing here is the majority of dog attacks that have been reported in the media recently (and lets face it this is where you're getting your mis-information) are dogs which have been abused by their owners. They have belonged to 'wide boys' who have pumped them up on steroids and deliberately mistreated the animals to make them vicious. Very few serious injuries have been reported from normal family dogs.

Children need to learn from an early age how to live along side animals, it grounds them and teaches them basic respect for things that are stronger. Quite often the child that is bitten is the one who hasn't been raised with a family pet and therefore had no idea how to treat the one they have encountered in the street/neighbors garden/granny's house/ the park etc.

To say that people shouldn't have dogs & children is just bordering on hysteria. Of course anyone with any sense won't leave a small child on their own with a dog just in the same way you wouldn't let them play with matches. Unfortunately some people are idiots and will leave a child alone with either, these are the poor children who end up in the papers. Millions of families round the country manage to raise children and pets in the same house without ever having any serious incidents, statistically the chance of a child being killed by a family pet are probably less than children killed in road accidents, will you stop taking your children in the car?

Some posters here really do need to get a grip on their knickers.

Eels100

flutterfairy wrote: »

I have to say again to those that are vouching for their dogs being safe~ How would they feel if their dog mauled one of their children. I am seriously doubtful that they would be so patient as to let the dog have a second chance over the welfare of their child.

I didn't hear anyone vouching for their dog's safety - I wouldn't even for a moment suggest either of mine are child safe. Despite the fact my !!!!! is so quiet she tolerates the cat's claws in her bum, she willingly sits to donate blood without restraint and has never, ever so much as curled her lip at a human, I would never say she's child safe. No dog is. That's why they shouldn't be left alone with children, full stop.