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ahnnie687:

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tastefullyoffensive:

“This is my bed now.” [video]

That dog is straight up big enough to bite that kid’s head off his shoulders and his parents let him smack the dog in the face to make a cute video for the internet.

This is where “It happened completely out of nowhere we were so shocked!” begins. They’re lucky this animal has as much restraint as it does.

that dog looks so fucking shocked now, and it’ll probably have less patience the next time it happens. what the fuck is wrong with some people.

I could do this to any of my dogs and they wouldn’t bite me.. because they’re trained.. someone should know their dog well enough to know if they’d bite their child. this isn’t abuse, it’s a kid waving his hand and the dog moving.

Kids don’t train dogs, much less very small kids like this one. A good percentage of dog bites come from dogs the victim knew. A good percentage of dog bite victims are children. Because children are at eye level with many dogs, bites on children are therefore usually more severe and disfiguring.

Children as young as this one don’t speak dog. When your dog growls at you to back off, you understand. A screaming happy toddler though? Will happily throw himself on a dog that’s trying to get away from him. Dogs that can play easily and comfortably with an adult don’t always know how to handle children. If children were the same as any other adult, there wouldn’t be any dogs in the shelter that “need to go to a home with older kids” or breeds who “aren’t good with kids.”

Because little kids are loud, uncoordinated, overly trusting and have no concept of personal space. You can teach your kid to deal nicely with animals, or the animals will teach them. Animals usually teach through CORRECTIVE BITING AND SCRATCHING. But when Muffles the bulldog bites a kid in the face, and the kid needs stitches and has a permanent scar, it doesn’t matter that it wasn’t Muffle’s fault.

My dad’s little dog is very polite and well mannered, and she will “play bite” with the adults in the house and do all manner of tricks and loves everyone. But when a toddler comes into the house? She can’t deal. She growls. She threatens. She tries to escape while the toddler keeps trying to get in her face. I can trust the dog not to bite ME, but I can’t trust the dog not to bite in self defense when a little kid invades her personal space.

A dog this big could very easily do serious lasting damage to this kid without even trying. And yet his caretakers think it’s funny to let the kid walk over to a resting dog and start smacking it in the face?

That’s not training. That’s dumb luck. You don’t train the dog not to defend itself. You train the KID to be nice to his pets, starting by not letting him smack them over the face because you think it’s a funny video.

I’m not disagreeing with any of your points I’m just pointing out that the dog was not hit and he did not snap.. that’s it. I understand that dogs can bite, I know that if I pissed off my little dog enough he’d bite, but the freak out right now is over something that didn’t even happen. please everyone teach your kids to not be little shits to dogs because no one plays nice all the time. I wouldn’t ever let a small child near two of my dogs (one is too rough when she plays, and the little one is grouchy), but if I was planning on having a family I’d own a family dog.

The kid makes contact with him at least once, and while it may not have been hard, it doesn’t matter how soft we think it happened, it matters what the dog think happened, and mouthiness like that, even in play, can be dangerous to a tiny tot.

The dog didn’t snap, no, and they’re very lucky he didn’t. This individual dog may be a saint, but people see this, interpret it as “cute”, and may set themselves up for failure in turn because they expect their dog to just take it and be a good family dog. Nobody asked the dog first, is the problem!

The spreading of videos like this normalizes poor kid and animal training. And in a world where dog bites are in the top ten reasons for a child emergency room visit, and dog bites have gone up considerably in the last few decades, it sort of becomes unreasonable to allow it to continue and just assume it will be ok because “hes a good dog.”

I ain’t saying a kid can’t have a dog, but I am saying the kid should know how to speak dog and not get all up in the wheelhouse of an animal that is essentially a wolf.