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Originally Posted by bjh  My youngest daughter's friend has a lab mix that is several years old and a few months ago my daughter was bragging about how gentle the dog was and that he would never hurt a flea. Well, just a few days after that my daughter was outside her apartment with the dog and she was talking to her neighbor. The neighbor had a little boy around 5 years old and the boy kept running up to the dog, yelling in his face. Melissa kept telling the boy to stop but the kid did it one to many times and the dog bit him. So no matter how gentle you think a dog is they all have a breaking point.
It makes me sick when people tell me 'Oh, my dog is so gentle the kids can climb all over him and pull his ears and the dog just lets them'  What the heck are these people thinking. You should never let a child do that to a dog, no matter how gentle they are. It just takes a split second for tragedy to strike. |
Right this is very true, people and animals all have a breaking point, it is the owners responisbility to ensure that it doesn't happen. This is why I and my mom don't allow my daughter or ANY child for that matter climb, bug or annoy the dog, because yes the dog can bite and WILL bite, but who's fault is it really? It isn't the dogs fault if he has to snap, they can't speak and say leave me alone, they are doing what the were intended to do and that can happen with the smallest of dogs as well.
I don't sit and brag that my dog is this and that, I just said she is calm and has shown no aggression. I don't let my daughter climb all over and and try to provoke her. We are being even more careful now, nobody is able to watch the dog shes in the kitchen where it's gated off.