How do i rehome our border collie?

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conradmum wrote: »

I've read the last couple of pages of this thread and something's bothering me. It seems that some of the dog lovers seem to think it's okay for a dog to bite a child as long as it's given the appropriate warning signs - baring teeth, growling etc. It seems that they think the onus is on the child to recognise these signs and the parent to teach the child these signs, rather than to teach the dog that it's completely unacceptable to harm a human being in any way. Is it impossible for dogs to walk away when they don't like what a child is doing to them?
I ask because I have cats and I would expect them to get up and walk off if a child was acting in a way they didn't like. Of course I teach my kids not to be cruel or torment animals at all, but at the same time if a cat I owned were to hiss at, scratch or bite a human they would be very severely dealt with. I wouldn't think the behaviour was acceptable just because they were acting in self defence.
I don't wish to cause offence, just trying to understand!

"rather than to teach the dog that it's completely unacceptable to harm a human being in any way. Is it impossible for dogs to walk away when they don't like what a child is doing to them?"

Yes, and we should also teach our dogs that it's completely unacceptable to fiddle their tax returns & ride mopeds without a crash helmet! You can hardly compare your cats to a dog, how do you teach a dog to walk away if it does not like being poked and prodded? Is there a special free phone number the dog can ring if it feels like it might be about to bite? :rotfl:


"Put the squeeky toy down butch & count to ten" pmsl.

scrimpandsaver

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

Loopy Donna with all due respect, that is a pathetic similarity, a bottle of milk doesnt bite back now does it lmao.

moneywise22

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

I hate these threads where people are made to feel like criminals for wanting to REHOME (not kill, or dump) a dog, for whatever reason.

We re-homed our greyhound before our son was born as she wasn't used to small children.

If the family are worried about the child-dog relationship, then obviously the child has to be put first. The child is more important than the dog, I don't know why everyone doesn't agree.

The OP asked for HELP, not judgement from soppy dog-lovers.

Sorry, rant over, but it makes me so cross.

To a dog being rehomed IS being dumped. He will not understand and will probably become depressed and/or ill. Its the same difference as a homeless person being taken in by friends/relatives (to a family who will love them and have lots of time for them) or being looked after in a shelter or care home (a lot of the time they will be alone and treated as a statistic).

Do you get it now?

Just because the dog cant call you 'Daddy' doesnt mean his feelings and wellbeing can be disregarded. The dog is JUST as important as the baby.

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Did the OP ever return to this thread?

scrimpandsaver

Sllepymy, Im not in anyway suffering from "hysteria" as i simply don't need to be cos I don't have a dog.

Anyuways the other reasons you should't have dogs is cos they stink, and it's unhygenic, imagine having something that licked its bum lick your babies face too, now that is eeeuuurrrgggghhhh.

scrimpandsaver

Moneywise, to a child the family pet mauling you to death can be much more disturbing than a dog going to another home.

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scrimpandsaver wrote: »

Sllepymy, Im not in anyway suffering from "hysteria" as i simply don't need to be cos I don't have a dog.

Anyuways the other reasons you should't have dogs is cos they stink, and it's unhygenic, imagine having something that licked its bum lick your babies face too, now that is eeeuuurrrgggghhhh.

Well there's a balanced arguement. lol

Eels100

scrimpandsaver wrote: »

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.

This is pretty much the only thing you've said that I agree with!

scrimpandsaver

Relay isn't it just, lmao

sleepymy

scrimpandsaver wrote: »

Sllepymy, Im not in anyway suffering from "hysteria" as i simply don't need to be cos I don't have a dog.

Anyuways the other reasons you should't have dogs is cos they stink, and it's unhygenic, imagine having something that licked its bum lick your babies face too, now that is eeeuuurrrgggghhhh.

So, you just don't like dogs then. That explains a lot.

It's easy to train a dog not to lick, I have managed to do it easily with friend's dogs which include a rotti, german shepard and a doberman cross.

You haven't answered my question. Should farmers not have children?