Piper is very friendly and sociable. She lets people pet her and gets excited over the attention she receives but she won't let strangers pick her up. I noticed she is a little skittish around children. She did have an incident over the summer when a small child ran up to her as I was walking by. He tried to pick her up and she got very scared, so I immediately scooped her up. Then the child grabbed her foot and was pulling her leg because he wanted her. I finally got the child to let go of her leg and Piper almost climbed up onto my head she was so frightened. The whole time I'm thinking where is your mother? Somebody has to own this kid. The mother finally noticed that her child was being obnoxious and came to my rescue. I inderstand why she doesn't really like small children to touch her. She doesn't growl but she will try to get away if they lunge towards her.
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