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Originally Posted by DerbyLayne  See this is where we will agree to dissagree.
I, in no way, feel this kid "misbehaved". He was not "bad". He didn't deserve to be disciplined. In my mind, he was a curious little kid, who wandered off from the party, and found a cute little dog and wanted to hold it, or show it off! Look I found a dog! whatever it was.... I don't think he meant to be harmful to the dog in anyway.
I do feel that there should have been a discussion, and like I said- a chance to learn from this experience in all aspects! Not to go off into others people's homes, not to wander off where no one knows where you are, how to handle a dog properly, how to be gentle with animals etc.
The entire incident was handled poorly, and I'm sorry that this woman lost her friend over it, but if you look at it from the other side-- How would you feel if someone laid a hand on your child and called it a name? The kid is 5 years old, come on.
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I actually completely agree with you that this shosuld have been a situation to learn from. I just think that if the child went upstairs where he should not have been and took the dog out of its crate, that he should be told that is not ok and that he should have stayed where he was supposed to. And I also am sure the kid didn't mean to do anything wrong, but he did obviously handle the dog the wrong way and if he isn't told that that is not the way that you handle a dog then he will never learn the propper way. That dof truly could have been hurt. They have tiny bones and being held by the legs could have ended in injury. But yes, there should have been a convorsation between the adults with the child and there should have been a lesson learned and that is the adults fault. When the situation is actually assesed, then obviously it was not handled properly from either party...... I really was just saying that I would have been livid too.......
I swear this was like one of those situations where you send a text message to someone and they take it the complete wrong way and it causes drama...... you can't tell over email or text or anything like this what a person truly means sometimes because you cannot hear the tone of their voice. But lesson learned- I do need to be careful with the way I say things.... because what I mean to say can be taken completely differently.
