I'm hoping to get some advice on how to handle this situation when it occurs to help prevent my DS becoming scared of dogs.
My family never had dogs when I was growing up and I was scared of them, especially bigger dogs. I'm mostly fine with them now with the exception of jumpy dogs. I do still tend to jump if they bark close to me.
There's a lovely park near me which is popular with dog walkers and today a dog ran up close to my DS who likes the concept of dogs very much but isn't very sure that he likes them that close to him. I picked DS up out of the way and the owner called the dog back and apologised, but then DS was running around and the dog ran back over. I picked DS up again and this time the dog jumped up on me towards DS and I shouted "down!" at it.
The owner came over and said that the dog was just a baby too and was playing by jumping up while I just talked to DS in a calm voice saying things like "oh, look, there's the dog". To be honest, I would have rather he put the dog on the lead until he was past us but didn't want to get into a argument so didn't say anything except that DS doesn't like dogs that close to him.
Basically, did I handle this OK and if not, what should i have done? I don't want DS to grow up scared of dogs too, but obviously I don't want to let dogs jump up on him. I do tend to pick him up when dogs come near him because I worry about them jumping on him.
Thanks if you managed to get though that!
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JinglyJanglyJungleBigGameTours · 16/06/2015 15:17
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