Quote Originally Posted by Fun&care View Post
I understand sometimes maybe the dog can't be blamed but I can't imagine how stressed I would be on a daily basis if I had a dog in the house who had the potential to bite and cause that much harm. I guess it makes me very grateful to have an amazing dog. You can put your hands in her dog bowl while she is eating, she won't bite, nip or even growl. I have never ever seen her even come close to growling or showing any sort of aggressiveness towards my kids or daycare kids. I am such a safety nut that I know I wouldn't be able to stand it if she was anything but amazing with the kids.
We had a long haired border collie who was so amazing with my kids when they were babies it was ridiculous. I have pictures of my daughter at age 18mths or so sat on him. She also dressed him in a yellow sweater and a baseball cap....friendliest dog ever. When he was about 13 and started to deteriorate he had a couple of fits. When he came out of the fits he was like a possessed wild dog. He lunged for anyone who dared make eye contact and charged around the house like a bull in a china shop. We learnt from the vet that if we locked him in the garage with copious amounts of water to drink in the dark, he would calm much safer for his own self and would obviously keep the kids safer. Two fits later, and a no guaranteed answer to the cause if we spent over £10K that's pounds not dollars so a lot more, on tests, we decided as he had lived a good age, and was temporarily extremely dangerous around anyone not just the kids, to have him put down. It was heart breaking to take a dog into the vets that day wagging his tail and so friendly to put him to sleep but it was for the best and saved him more suffering while keeping our family safe. I couldn't imagine having a dog in the company of someone else's children, the liability is to great in my mind. Perhaps it's just because it's been so long since we have had any dogs. Funnily enough, my husband is actually allergic to dogs. He grew up with a minimum of four dogs in his home at any given time as his mum worked and showed border collies. At one point there were additionally 3 German shepherds along with the border collies and 4 kids lol I can't imagine. It was only once we had no dogs and visited a pet store that he noticed the flare up. It limits our choice of dog now but he seems to be fine around short haired friends.