Pitbulls Used to Be Considered the Perfect "Nanny Dogs" for Children --

[MadHound]

275. Again, oh geez.

Millions and millions of kids go to bed each night snuggled up with a dog. It has been going on for eons now. As you say, the dogs consider the kids to be part of their pack, and it is quite natural to dogs for everybody in the pack to sleep together.

Compare the few isolated instances of dogs attacking kids when they are asleep together, to the actual number of times kids sleep with dogs, you will find that the likelihood of a dog attacking a child it is sleeping with is somewhere far south of that same kid getting struck by lightning.

Your over the top hysteria is reminiscent of people who, way back in the day, used to recommend that cats never sleep with kids because they would steal the child's breath away in the middle of the night.

The same goes for kids romping with dogs unsupervised. Kids do this millions of times every single day, and nothing happens except that the kids have a good time, and if the dog doesn't exactly have a good time, they tolerate it with good spirit. In fact this is where pit bulls excel, since they are a tough dog that can better tolerate the rough and tumble with kids.

Such dog paranoia as yours is uncalled for and unneeded. In fact if that is the kind of attitude you display around dogs, your nervousness and fear are going to contribute to the problem, putting the dog on edge, making them nervous. IE, you will become part of the problem.

Stop falling for all this dog hysteria, it doesn't do you, your child, or your dog any good.