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Originally Posted by Garoto1973  I had a scare when one of my relatives held and lifted my dog from the neck, from floor level to around 6 feet high. I almost fainted , luckily he was not injured. Same thing when a visitor tried to treat him to a bunch of cooked chicken bones and a bunch of grapes for dessert. You need to be around strangers all the time if they dont know a clue about dogs. |
Picking a dog up by the scruff of it's neck is from my grandfathers days, and still used by some uneducated about animals people. Ppl just do not know how to handle animals. With all my dogs, as pups and even as adults, I scoop them up, right hand under their butts, left hand under their front legs against their chest. I see ppl picking dogs up by placing their hands under the front legs, arm pits....ouch.