To think that just because your dog "really loves children" doesn't give you right to let it slogged all over my child?

[emkana]

Always gets me. What about my child not liking dogs? So shouldn't that be respected?

Camel. I'd deck anyone who fed my dogs treats. One of my Sheps is epileptic, foods with additives can cause a fit and a fit could kill.

While we're on the subject of acceptable behaviour and dogs can I please remind all child-owners ( :o ) of the following:

1. Not to let your toddler/young child come running towards my dogs, fingers outstretched, ready to poke and prod.

1. Not to let your child run their hands down my dog's back as they pass us in the street.

1. Not, when your DC are older and playing outside, allow them to come up to stroke my dogs without asking first.

1. Not, as someone did recently, stand there in the middle of a public footpath whilst your PFB screams at the top of his voice at my dog and tell me that I must go back the other way because your PFB "doesn't like dogs", especially when my dog had immediately and as a matter of courtesy been recalled, put on a lead and made to sit and stay with me at the side of the path as soon as I saw people approaching in the distance.

1. Not to throw litter, including coke cans and broken glass, so that my dogs' paws are not cut whilst out on a (well controlled) walk.

To paraphrase Truffleshuffle, I only tolerate other people's children anyway. Keep them away from me and my dogs and clean their shit up.

SGM, thank you for thr explanation. Luckily we haven't experienced any allergies of that sort in this family so I genuinely was unaware of the effects.

It would devastate me to have an allergy which prevented me from owning and working with dogs.

Valhalla, mine is on a special diet as she has an immune system disorder. "Treats" can cause stomach upsets that take 4 weeks of antibiotics to resolve, plus stomach soothing gunk, plus pain relief, and the poor mutt is in agony meanwhile. Some people totally ignore a "no" so I now say "treats could kill her, she's allergic to everything and on a special diet." Believe it or not, some dog owners STILL ignore me and feed away. I bet they're the owners who let their dogs terrify/slobber all over/get muddy paws all over random passers by. And don't get me started on people who don't pick up their dog's crap, either.

That was cathartic.

Some people are just sodding irresponsible. They'd probably be crap parents, too.