While Ezra was taking a nap in his crib, the family’s Husky that they owned for eight years attacked out of nowhere.
“And to just bring awareness that it could be any dog at any time. Completely unprovoked, no matter what the history is,” Chloe said.
Even humans as well. No unsupervised access to any babies. every move must be monitored. /S
Being a good pet owner and/or parent means understanding that animals can be unpredictable. It’s not a slight to the animal, it’s reality. .
Up to a point, I’m not going to be a helicopter mom and not let my kid be constantly under surveillance. Like I’m going to see how and teach my kid as I have already done how to interact with animals. I let her get scratched by a farm cat as I told her to leave it alone and it was done with pets. She now teaches other kids how to handle animals, be gentle, and understand body language. On the other side, with my great Dane mix I introduced him to my kid and let him know she was fragile from the hospital. He has only hurt her once and that was because she went outside by herself when I told her not to(I was showing )and played ball with him. Was running with the ball and he knocked her down. She learned 2 lessons, to not go outside without me being ready and to not run with the ball.
I grew up with my moms friend that raised mastiffs and I would explore the open land she had with 6-10 giant dogs from 3rd to 5th grade unsupervised. Just go to her house after school and feed/play with the dogs until my mom came after work. Now I’m not some boomer saying back in my day, but coming from a millennial seeing adults of helicopter parents struggle with being on their own.
And there is a difference between a kid and a babie, my first comment was more directed at them saying anything with free will, other than a human. Not like humans are any better. I trust an unknown dog over a human, I can read them better and react accordingly.
We joke, but then I think about someone I know and their piece of shit oldest son. He was clearly psychopathic around the age of four wanting to hurt babies and dogs. It never went away, and he frequently beats his younger siblings and strangles his youngest sibling. Parents don’t do shit about it, can’t hurt his feelings.
Sounds like a killer in the making, just watched a doc about a kid like that that went on to shoot up a mall.
He very much is. He has asked me to take him hunting. Told him there is no amount of money that will ever make that happen.
You were absolutely right up until the “/s”…
Humans pose as great if not more of a risk than animals to babies.
I mean yeah, but I wrote the s to say I’m not pro surveillance.