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Originally Posted by Ladymom  I personally wouldn't want to use my little dog as the guinea pig in a training lesson. Let the Husky learn bite inhibition somewhere else! |
I have faith in a pup that is 7 weeks old in the first place the size will not kill or hurt my yorkie.
I would also make sure that the owner was done his or her job in picking a dog that is of good temperament and I know my stuff which I do when it comes to dog body language then I AM NOT using my dog as any guinea pig. If I had a any concern at all with any dog I put or think of putting together it does not happen or if it does it is done with multiply back ups and safety in place. Like long lines and muzzles.
You want to know why small dogs are afraid of big dogs and big dogs hurt small dogs it cause we are not letting them learn to co habitat with each other and we do not take he time to monitor and manage them when they are. We just lock them apart and hope that they will not have dog on dog aggression with each other as they have never seen or inter acted.
When we have a litter we always stick our little soical skills dogs in with our pups so they see little ones and are taught to play nice and we are right there safe guarding that everyone is ok and nothing goes wrong.
When we are at dogs shows our big dogs are not going around hunting the little ones as they know they are dogs and not food or a squeak toy. Well ok except the one that looks like a cat cause our one girl missed out on cat class and likes chasing cats.... why we social skills our pups to cats when we can too.
Call socialization and we need to do more of it so all our dogs live well and are ok in the world.
When you quote me please do so in full so my comments are in context please.
JL