Sorry folks another dog one.
I'm asking because I had a situation the other day where I was walking my dogs down alley next to a field, and my little dog (Shih Tzu) had lagged behind. I turned and a little girl had hold of her around her tummy, back legs off the floor. Her father (I presume) still on the phone, I asked him to remove the child from my dog, and that she may snap as she doesn't know the child. His response "If it bites her it'll be put down."
Not only that ive lost count of the many times over the years ive been walking and kids having come running at the dogs, not even a "Can i touch the dog?" I mean we spend years telling our kids, "don't talk/go/take sweets off strangers." that we fail to tell them the simplest "don't just walk over to dogs and touch them." Why? The parents would be the first to moan if the dog snapped at the child. But I bet you'd be pretty pee'd off if Mrs X from next door came up to you and started scratching your ears.
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AIBU to think that parents should educate there kids about the dangers of unknown dogs.
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LouiseSmith · 28/02/2014 14:41
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