 BIG Dog... Little Dog
We own small dogs. And whilst we need to be alert and protective for our little ones, I don't believe we should automatically pull pick up our little one from the big dogs. It sends a wrong message to our little ones, and may even bruise their big dog ego.
Our Razzle lives with two big dogs and a big cat. My challenge is to discipline Razzle when he goes over the top with the big dogs. They love him dearly but he has started to be quite nasty with them with respect to toys. I trust my large dogs (by the way they are 130lbs and 100 lb size dogs) how-ever this is not a good thing to let Razzle get away with.
Razzle got in trouble in a leash free park a couple of months ago. This when he was 9months old. He went after a Rottweiler as he would our two dogs, and well the rotty didn't take kindly to that growling n jumping.
He then sped away from the Rotty-he is amazingly fast little boy and straight to Zoey and Magic. Zoey danced up and away from the Rotty - rotty came forward still - our big boy turned his side into the path of the Rotty -turned his face to him and lifted his lip - the Rotty backed away fast. Razzle by this time was under Magic's tummy barking like mad at the Rotty.
So what I'm saying is we need to train our little ones how to behave around the big dogs in as safe a way as possible.
Gail in Ontario |