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Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom  Very good points, Debbie, and I'm sure you saw so many tragedies firsthand.
Although I do think there are success stories of big dogs w/ little doggies...gosh, I just couldn't do it, myself.
As many of you know, I just went through rescuing the *most* gentle Pitbull on the planet, Ambrey (okay, I'm biased  ) - she thought she was a lap dog! Seriously, a total love bug, and that's all she was capable of, really. However, we kept the boys separate from her the *entire* time we fostered her...only bc all she would have to do while playing, is bring down a friendly, playful paw and *boom*, Marcel's neck could be broken in a 1/2 second. That would not have been Ambrey's fault...rather, just a size/power difference.
Something to consider....  |
Yes necks do get broken, also backs. Ive seen lots of eyes dislodged from sockets and lots of head traumas that resulted in death. It is very sad to loose your babies this way.
I'm sure all of you know about the mad dogs, you know when something seems to crawl up their bum and they take off suddenly and run and run in play. Well theres no stopping them when they do this. When the big dog gets the mad dogs the little one follows and just try catching the little one when this happens. It's next to impossible.