What are you thinking!!!!!

[Capone22]

Originally Posted by Saratm_93

so i have a 9month old female whos named Zoey, and were walking down the street our normal routine for the end of the day, we round our last corner and out of NO WEAR comes this little girl (she couldn't have been 4) and her mom i stop walking so they can cross in front of us so I'm not dragging Zoey down the street, they pass then all of a sudden the little girl turns around a bolts for zoey, Zoey being a puppy starts jumping around like the puppy she is. and I'm just standing there completely shocked at what im seeing. anyways the little girl reaches Zoey and tries to mount her like a FREAKING pony. I'm irritated at this point, Zoeys freaking out and the mother of the girl just turns and says and i quote "AWWW, HOW CUTE" so zoey puts the little girl to the ground, not aggressively or anything just to stop this little from climbing on her back. and this women FLIPS OUT!!! so were yelling at each other in the middle of the street the little girls crying which pisses the mom off even more. and i just cant help but think what if that little girl ran up to a dog that was actually aggressive and the dog bit her. i mean COME ON people teach your kids not to just run up to any dog strange or not.

While I agree it's annoying to have kids or parents approach a dog like that and think its ok, I don't understand how you let it get this far. The moment the child started running for my dog I would have has her in a sit or moved in front of her and blocked her. Or physically and gently removed the child from on top of my dog. Not just stand there shocked. Your responsible for the safety of your dog. The whole throwing the child to the ground could have been easily avoided.


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[Jag]

Originally Posted by Sunflowers

Yeah, then you go to jail for assaulting the kid...

I'd be OK with that if it meant keeping the kid's face intact. You can also block a kid with a stick or stop them with the end of it. If it came down to smacking a kid, though, I'd do it in a heartbeat if I had ANY question as to whether or not my dog would harm it.

[Gretchen]

Originally Posted by Capone22

While I agree it's annoying to have kids or parents approach a dog like that and think its ok, I don't understand how you let it get this far. The moment the child started running for my dog I would have has her in a sit or moved in front of her and blocked her. Or physically and gently removed the child from on top of my dog. Not just stand there shocked. Your responsible for the safety of your dog. The whole throwing the child to the ground could have been easily avoided.


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Yes, this is what I was thinking.

You said you have a puppy, so you are still learning about your dog and the bizarre situations that can happen. You'll find that you will need to learn to be much more assertive than you are comfortable with when you are out with your dog (At least this in my experience).

I'm so disappointed in this child's mom! If this is typical of this child's behavior, it can bolt and run out into the street at anytime. When I was growing up, this would be one of those few times when a child would have been spanked!(I know this is taboo now).

[cassadee7]

There are as many stupid dog owners as there are irresponsible parents. I've had both experiences. I have had a toddling baby come up and have his arms around Saber's neck out of the blue in the 5 seconds I was looking the other way. thank goodness she just wagged and licked him but the parents took more than a minute to even notice, as I was moving this baby off my dog.

And another time I had my little girl who was about 5, walking to the park, and there was a lady coming towards us with her dog on a leash. My daughter stopped and asked, "May I pet your dog?" and when the lady said "sure!" my daughter held her hand out for the dog to sniff and the dog SNARLED at her! I grabbed my daughter and we began to walk away as the owner was shouting, "come back, I have ahold of her head now so you can pet her on the back!" Um... no.

[x0emiroxy0x]

Next time one of ya'll tell a kid no and the kid keeps coming, try this:

Plant your feet shoulder width apart, stick both hands out infront of you in a stop motion, and yell "NO!" very loud and very firm.***

This will stop 9/10 kids in their tracks, especially little brats who have never heard the word NO.

Yes, you will get evil/shocked looks from bystanders...but your dog won't get put down from some kid running up and getting bit.

***Modify the pitch/loudness of your voice if your dog would react to you yelling. I'm always singing, yelling, whispering, and changing my tone around Rocky so he is used to it.

[TommyB681]

ignorance is a glorious thing

[ozzymama]

Originally Posted by GSDolch

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[Saratm_93]

i mean i understand that its hard to control your kids sometimes but you just dont play around when it comes to dogs. i have t 2 year old that would NEVER do what that four year old did. simple because ive taken the time since he could walk to teach him not to just go up to strange dogs

[Saratm_93]

Originally Posted by GSDolch

First, under no circumstance to I agree with the mother letting her child go on like that.

I have a four year old child, he is a bolter. Only parents who have children who bolt will understand. Hes small and fast and gives no warning when he decides he wants to run and go somewhere. He's got so so much better, but not 100% and I am pretty good at keeping my eye on him and hovering to make sure he doesn't run. But, it happens.

What upsets me as equally is that you said your dog put the child to the ground. What do you mean by that exactly? Regardless of the situation, that is NOT something you should be letting your dog do, ever. I wouldn't be yelling at the mother, I'd be making sure I correct my dog for taking over a situation that you should have been handling, because it doesn't matter what the girl did, it all falls back on you and your dog.

I would be furious if a dog did that to my child, BUT, I wouldn't be sitting back going "aw cute" either. I think both of you have things you need to work on. Use it as a learning experience to be more pro active instead of re active.

BY "put the child to the ground" i simply ment shook her off. my dog wasnt on top of the child in any way shape or form.

as for both of us having things to work on i completely disagree NO child should ever go up to a dog the way that little girl did. MY dog has been through more training including behavior, bite work, and the canine good citizen award along with a few other thing. "

to make things worse this morning i found out the little girls dad is a K-9 cop that actually trained my dog i was talking to him and the women comes out of there house like a freaking bat out of **** and goes ballistic say she gonna have my dog put down the dad then stepped in on my behalf and told his wife to shut up and told her that he personally trained my dog and she wouldn't touch her. it just flipping amazed me that as a family with a "powerful" dog wouldnt teach there kid not to run up to random dogs on the street.

[Saratm_93]

now my dog has been around kids since ive had her but i was just astonished that this mother let her get to me. i was stopped and they might have been 3-4 steps ahead of me, now i do understand you moms/dads who have bolters that you disagree but are you really saying that this was MOSTLY my fault. anyways it happened so fast that by the time i went to grab the little girl she was on the ground im talking about 3-8 seconds maybe. as for those of you talking about Public situations. my pups been everywhere from preschools to elderly homes not once has she or my self had to deal with this much stupidity at least in that amount of time. now were still doing some of the more intense training but even after this id still take my dog to any public event i felt the desire to