ER nurse. I’ve met many children bitten in the face for behavior you would consider normal (harrassing a dog, getting in its face, etc.. The number of times I’ve heard “We were shocked, he was always such a good dog” I can count on more than two hands. The parents of those children were the ones who didn’t understand the difference between human and animal behavior. Their children paid the price with plastic surgeon consults and sometimes permanent disfigurement. |
Please. This is DCUM. Nothing but the best organic farm-to-table for Larlo AND Fido. |
+1000. We call it neglect and abuse. |
Boys will be boys. Yep, we know your type. |
Not all do. If you don't teach children right from wrong, they don't all figure it out as they get older. This is how we end up with people tying a dog to a tree and beating it with baseball bat, or sticking things up its orifice, or duct taping its mouth (or worse). These three are specific examples of dogs we have taken into rescue. Maybe you'll call that "being rough with a sensitive dog" too. |
+1. These children who are never shown proper boundaries with animals (and consequences for violating those boundaries) are also less likely to respect boundaries with other vulnerable humans. This kid sounds like a bully in the making. |
Every culture does some things that are not inherently good. I would put tolerating the deliberate tormenting of animals on that list. It’s not a good look. It’s also not an excuse. |
| Strong correlation between kids who abuse animals and serial killers. Get the dog some help. |
| Lock them up |
I don't believe that dogs only reason for existence is for our needs. Our need to be happy do not outweigh the dog. What if owners like seeing their dogs fight? Because that makes them happy. It doesn't make the dog happy but, in your mind who cares about the dogs' needs. Just as long as the family is happy! |
Stfu cracker |
Yep. One of the reasons we waited until our youngest son was 10 before we got a dog. Figured that was the minumum age at which he would listen to us and understand--and even then we watched him and his behaviour closely. Never go to the dog while she's sleeping on her bed, call her to you--if she comes to you she wants interaction, etc. One of the reasons fewer adults are bitten is because we generally don't go to the dog, we make them come to us. |
You really think your post isn't bizarre? Why do you think the child's parents aren't telling him "gentle" inside the house? |
LOL. Not the PP, but if you aren’t joking, I hope I never run across your kids. Words without consequences result in brats. |
That was the first time I posted on this thread, so there are apparently a whole lot of 'bizarre' posters on here, who don't think it's acceptable for kids to try to sit on dogs, throw things at them, or hit them. What's so bizarre about what I wrote? These are specific things that children (and presumably adults, because no one caught the a$$holes that stuck tree branches inside two puppies) have done. Maybe, IF someone had stopped them when they were children, it wouldn't have escalated. Or maybe you think that it's bizarre that people find it unacceptable for dogs to be hit with baseball bats, or have their mouths duct taped. Why do I care what the child's parents are telling him inside the house? It's clearly not working. Or they don't do it because they don't care, or they're drowning in their own $hit and haven't been keeping an eye on the kid or the dog. |