To be freaked out by this? 3 year old's memory

[birdynumnums]

7 months ago, we had to rehome our lovely dog because he was so mad he was knocking DS1 (3.5 year old) and and Ds2 over all the time and we were constantly having to lock him in the conservatory when the children were up. DS1 didn't have anything to do with the dog apart from waving at him through the glass for at least a year before he went. It was very upsetting but dog is in a lovely home now. At the time, he asked where Jacob the dog was but didn't seem overly upset by it.

Tonight, he woke up screaming, demanding to know where Jacob was. Then though fits of tears, he said 'Jacob is in grandad's car'. His grandad came to drive the dog to his new home 7 months ago. Ds1 has severe speech delay so it surprises me when he says many things let alone things that happened 7 months ago. Is this weird? Or do I just think it is because of his speech delay?

Er no, I'm not being deliberately provocative at all. I'm going to say this once more, and then I'm not going post again on this thread because it just feels like attacking the OP again, for which I've already apologised.

If you choose to have a high maintenance, high energy breed like a collie, then you owe it to the dog to give it sufficient exercise and stimulation so that it is not dangerously hyper, and to TRAIN it so that it behaves appropriately around children. If you are unable to do this yourself, from reading a book about clicker training, for example, then you get a qualified trainer or behaviourist in to show you how. Collies are very trainable, but they need a lot of exercise so that they are calm enough to take it on board.

So to summarise, if your dog jumps up, train it not to.

A dog-child safety issue is aggression, and even that can often be solved with a good behaviourist and a commitment from the owner. So there's the thing - the owner has to be committed to the dog. Many people are not committed to making it work. Hence rescues are full of dogs that were no longer convenient for their owners.

"And it only takes one time for the dog to do it to the child near a hard corner/radiator/etc and that's a pretty serious head injury."
Best not ever have a dog anywhere near a child then. Nor another child, come to that, as I've heard that children often knock each other over or against things too.

DS picks up the exact packet of dolly mixtures I used to potty train him well over a year ago whenever he goes down the sweet aisle in tesco and says "ihave these for weeing on the potty dont i?"

My little girl often wakes up at night and 'feels sad' about pets/family who have run away/gone to heaven.... she's 5 and quite often dosn't remember in the morning.

My Twins are freaky in what they remember doing..... they remember how to 'do ' grandads wooden puzzels from xmas when they were just 1, and both have REALLY good memorys...sooooo unlike their mother ;)