Why do people have to be so inconsiderate when it comes to dogs?! Like today I took Sarge to his playgroup, and there is this new family in the neighborhood and they decided to invite themselves to our puppy playgroup. So there were all these little kids running around and I kept asking them not to feed Sarge, not to pick him up, not to call his name. And, of course, they don't listen. So Sarge ends up getting fed up with it and starts barking at them so they will leave him alone. It wasn't growling, and it just barking really loud. And then the kids mom comes up to me talking about how my dog should be put down because he's a menace and can't be controlled. GRRRRR! So now Sarge is all rilled up and I can't get him to chill, and I'm pissed off.
Grrrrrrrrrrr!
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That's horrible and not fair at all. You should tell the mom she can't control her kids and should put them down.
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I had the same thing happen to me at a softball game. I had a child rush up to Niko before I could stop the child she had a hold of his ear and started tugging on it. Niko grumbled and hid behind me (he actually loves kids, when they aren't misbehaving). The kids mother came up to me and said that I shouldn't have such a dangerous dog at all ball field where there are kids playing. I promptly told her that like my dog her kid should be on a leash so she could be controlled and that she shouldn't be letting her kid run up to unkown dogs.
All I can say is this woman and his children and their freaking dog will never EVER set foot in my playgroup again. NEVER! It's one thing to bring an ill behaved dog, like hers was, but when you bring young children who don't know how to react to new dogs, that's a totally different story. And then to blame Sarge because her freaking kids don't know how to behave. Ugh, the nerve of some people.
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No, I'd say stupid kid owners. When Bubba was young ,I loved going to play parks with him as he loved kids so.... would follow them up the slides and follow them down. All kids loved him, and he them. One day a man came in with his little boy ( 5 ish ) and Bubba went up to greet them. The boy screamed and the man held the boy and put me and Bubba down. He said his boy was deathly afraid of dogs and he resented my dog being loose. I suggested, maybe this could be a lesson that there are some loving dogs & not to be afraid of all dogs.. He'd have nothing to do with it. Bubba wasn't a dog that would jump on a child.. he wasn't old enough for his TDI but did have CGD ...I know I may have been in the wrong... but I feel children shouldn't grow up with such fears.... parents should accept help from the right people when it's offered.
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One of the other furkid moms from playgroup is going to talk to her. She lives next door to the lady and says that she is constantly complaining that her dog is "vicious." It's a freaking geriatric Pomeranian, it isn't vicious. So she is going to have a little discussion with her and politely tell her to back off.
I can't believe the 'new' mom in the neighborhood had the gaul to say anything at all like that to you. You must be soooo angry. You are right, real little kids like that have no business being in a group who are 'working' on things with their dogs until they are invited. Make sure she knows this isn't a social gathering for everyone, but a working education for the dogs. You must have been stunned by her comment. I am so sorry. That hurts. Maybe leave a parenting magazine on her car along with the leash!