[La Princesa]

Originally Posted by jp4m2

I understand what your saying about kids growing up with dogs for pets...the problem here is the baby is already here the dog is not, so why invite potential problems into the home when it can be avoided....A small child doesn't have the capacity to understand what "hurt" is to an animal, not until around the age of 5-6...they will pull the dogs tail, ears, & hair, they will drop the dog...a toddler is very unstable and clumsy and will fall a lot hopefully not on the pup....there's the issue of the toddler getting in the face of a dog that's eating, that is the best time to get a bite in the face....A lot of dogs are out of the home within a year because the problems with a toddler is just to much...you can not possible make a toddler understand how to properly handle a pup, they just aren't ready to process that kind of info..and there is no way the parent will be in the room all the time to supervise the interaction....no one is saying not to get a pup, their just saying there is a proper time to introduce a pup into the home and toddler time is defiantly not it.....

I appreciate your opinion but in my experience i disagree. Kisses!