stressheavymoneylight:

saint-ambrosef:

libertarirynn:

There are a lot of absolute idiots in the comments saying things like “a good dog will never hurt a baby” and “the child is never to blame if the dog attacks” and “special snowflakes call everything abuse”

Listen here you fucktards: dogs. Are not. Fucking. People. They don’t operate by human logic. They don’t follow human moral codes. It has nothing to do with it being a “good dog“ or not. If you were getting hit and pulled on and punched and scratched constantly, you just might react. A dog can’t speak up and say “hey please stop that you’re hurting me“. What he can do is move, lunge, bite, etc. These actions might intentionally or unintentionally harm your child. Use your fucking head and don’t let your kid beat up on your dog no matter how many times he’s “taken it” before; you never know when he might snap. Don’t teach your kids it’s OK to treat animals like punching bags and they’ll never react. That’s immensely unfair to both the animal and the child. You could have a hurt or dead child and a euthanized dog because you were fucking dumbass who thought the dogs were just there to be treated like toys.

Same goes for cats and any other pet. Teach your child how to properly treat animals or don’t have any fucking animals.

look if a person is constantly hurting me i’m gonna snap back at them. don’t expect animals not to do the same.

In addition to this, don’t teach your dog not to growl, snarl, or do anything else “aggressive-looking.” Those are the only way a dog has to warn someone before biting them. They are a way to tell a person to stop, before needing to escalate to biting. Punishing a dog for giving those warnings will, in fact, successfully teach him not to give those warnings. But that creates a much more dangerous dog, in the sense that he will no longer give any warning signs before biting, and instead bite seemingly “out of nowhere.” If your dog growls at you or your kid when you’re invading his space, back the fuck off.

And for the love of god please learn to read some basic animal body language so you actually know how your pet feels about what’s going on around him.