Would you use a CM with a Rottweiler?

I have to say I don't think your sample of CMs is very typical - not just comparing with the 6 I've used over the years (none of whom had dogs) but the dozens and dozens I've known through my work. It's just no a good mix to have a dog in the same house as an unpredictable group of small children.

No. No way.

Go for it McBear....I don't think anybody here including myself who says they would never leave a child with a CM with a dog like yours is going to dissuade you. The proof will be in how long it takes you to fill your childminding places, do please report back to us doubters if we are proven most wrong

Never.

No way. Not even if it was kept separate. And supervised contact does not prevent a dog snapping. I love dogs but would be terrified of leaving any age dc with one. Sorry.

How many incidents of babies and toddlers being mauled to death by guinea pigs and hamsters has there been lately noblooming

Christ, no! A Rottweiler? Are you serious?????

No I wouldn't even consider it

nobloomingidea for me it's about it being at a CM's place rather than under my supervision. Of course it's good for children to have contact with animals and to learn how to treat them responsibly. But I'm afraid I still wouldn't be comfortable leaving my (very young) kids in a house with a dog all day without my being there. Because I don't know the dog, and I do know my kids - and they're boisterous.I don't want my kids EVER to be in a position where they're stressing a dog out with their behaviour. Firstly, because that puts them at risk of the dog lashing out. Secondly, because that's awful for the dog. And I can't guarantee that a CM, responsible for looking after several kids, won't occasionally put my kids in that position.
As for the risk being the same with cats and rabbits...well that's just not true, is it?

Family pets are completely different, my children spend lots of time around dogs, but never unsupervised. I love dogs and will have one as a pet once my youngest is older. I just wouldn't pay for my children to be looked after in a home with a dog.

Dogs and children within a family is quite different to dogs and children in a childcare environment - neither the dog nor child is used to the other, the carer is busy with multiple young children. When you hear of children being badly hurt or killed by dogs it is so often the dog of a friend or grandparent as they aren't used to each other.

The level of risk posed by a rabbit and a rottweiler is very obviously not the same, and pretending it is is rather silly.

Based on most of the negatives....so children and dogs don't mix? I'm astounded that people pass on their fears, am I a bad mum for having a 5 yr old and a puppy?
Cats can scratch and bite, hamsters bite, rabbits/guniea pigs bite..it's the same level of risk at they are unpredictable animals.

Surely children that are taught respect, not to fear, how to approach an animal or handle that animal are better off?

I have a puppy, a rabbit and a pony, all of which the children I care for regularly have access to. They learn how to be to be responsible and what effort it is to look after them and they aren't toys.
The puppy has come to work with me since he was 14 weeks old, I'm a nanny btw but still the same principle.

I can't help think that some issues with children/dogs were avoidable if exposed in a controlled and safe environment.

Anyway rant over...I really hate it that all dogs are stigmatised like this, it's unfair.

Another no here I'm afraid, and not just to a particular breed but any breed.

Just not worth the risk at all. Not even a little bit.

Sorry OP x

No. Never. No dog ideally but def not a big dog. The potential for harm is too great.

I'd possibly consider one with a dog for a school aged child, if the dog was always kept separate, but it wouldn't be ideal.

Any large dog would be a definite no with babies/toddlers though.

No I wouldn't
I would not like the idea of any dog being in the vicinity of children while they are playing, eating or sleeping
I would not like the idea of a dog being in the kitchen. Its not hygienic when you ate running a business.
Also I don't like the idea of children playing in a garden which a dog had used as a toilet
Dogscare unpredictable as are children. Together its not a good combination

I wouldn't and would be among the people here that wouldn't with any dog.

No, sorry. Any dog would be a no for me. I generally think dogs are ok but there's no way I would leave my kids in a dog-occupied house for 10 hours without me there. Because I don't know the dog, and (in my experience) some dog owners can be a bit over confident that their dog is 'bomb proof'. (I've been snapped at and bitten by dogs which I was assured were fine.)

Absolutely not - probably not with any reasonably large dog to be fair. Dogs can be lovely but they are still animals and sometimes just turn if provoked in the wrong way by a child who doesn't know better.
Sorry - not worth any risk to my child.

McBear, I feel like you are not listening to the many people saying 'not any dog' and choosing to focus on the rottie bit.

I don't think it is fair on the dog or the children.

No I wouldn't.