I don't really pick my dogs up unless it's for a purpose (to get onto the bed, to tell them goodbye/hello, to get out of the neighbor's yard and back into ours!). They have no problem w/ people they know picking them up and I don't either. The only stipulation is that they pick them up under their belly because it hurts Tristan's arms to be picked up any other way. Lily usually runs away from strangers anyway.
