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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So MIL is concerned that your dog, who lives with your son, is going to attack your son, which he has presumably not done before?[/quote]

My guess is that she thinks that our dog and her dog are going to attack each other and our son (who is newly crawling) is going to get in the middle of it.  It's completely irrational because (1) my dog is completely sweet to our son, (2) our dog and their dog have growled at each other but have never attacked one another, (3) in the 5 years our dogs have been together at their house we have always been aware that the dogs aren't bffs and make sure we pay attention to what they're doing at all times, (4) we have brought our son and our dog to their house 3 times already and she never mentioned that she didn't want our dog there.

No matter what the reason, my feeling is that family is more important than the dogs (although our dog is like a child to us!) and why are we cancelling this trip over the dogs?!?  Clearly this fight is more than just about the dogs.  [/quote]

[b]I've growm up and been around dogs my whole life. Your MIL is not being irrational, she is being cautious. You and your DH are not being cautious enough.  Is is really that hard to envision the possibility that the dogs get in a fight and your baby, who is crawling, gets stuck in the middle?  [/b][/quote]

I have to agree with this.  With this post you're MIL is actually sounding more reasonable.  I would never put a baby on the floor with two dogs that have growled at each other in the past.  Now throw a crawling baby into the dogs territory and it could be the perfect storm.  And maybe it won't.  Bt I now don't think your MIL is being totally irrational.  [/quote]

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