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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama  I agree that jumping from hitting a dog to being a serial killer is extreme. However...
Let's play a game. What if we substituted the word "puppy" for "baby". Would you still say "oh they just need to learn"? Would you recommend a larger baby until they could "play nice"? Or would you think, hmmm, there might be some issues here we need to work on? Would you trust that child around a baby after telling it "no" or to "play nice, touch softly" one time? Would you be worried about jealousy and / or aggression issues?
Just wondering where the line is drawn. |
Lol, yup. I would think the same way. I have heard of a lot of older siblings who get jealous of a new younger one coming in and if a 2 year old has a new sibling, it wouldn't shock me to hear that he/she maybe would have tried to hit a new baby. Two year olds hit and kick. I can't count the number of times my now-almost 4 year old sister has hit me over something silly. It's what a lot of toddlers do. Thankfully she's basically over that stage. She did try to hit Jackson once -- she was mad because he ate one of her toys and she took a swing (and missed). She got yelled at, put into time out, and never tried it again. I'm not an unfit dog owner, my mom is not an unfit parent, and she's certainly not going to turn into a serial killer because she tried to hit an animal, or didn't understand how to act with one. One time my brother threw a toy car at me when he was younger and it left a mark on my face. I was terribly mad and it hurt. But he's now almost 8 and turned out to be just fine.
Kids do really dumb things sometimes. It just doesn't always mean that a breeder is terrible or that a parent needs parenting classes! I just think some are taking this a little to the extreme. If I were just a "normal" person, not a "crazy dog lady"
who belongs to Yorkie and dog forums online, I'd probably just be laughing and say you all are nuts. But since I have spent time here and understand where the frustration comes from, etc, I do understand the concern. I just wish people wouldn't go right to calling the OP an unfit parent, or crazy, or whatever else he was called. It just drives people away and instead of him learning from this forum, he will now probably go out and get a Yorkie and raise it without any guidance that he could have had by belonging to this community.
Actually, here is Emma and Jackson playing together....