Is there anybody has a dog and a baby at same time?

[yolandachin]

i'm just wondering, if you have a dog and a baby at home at the same time, what will your friends and acquaintances and relatives say?

well, I have a 2-year-old boy, and when I was pregnant with him, everybody advised me to give up my sharpei. And I was under huge pressure.

now he's born, the pressure is much less now. But my parents still keep asking me to dump my dog.

What about you? You've never faced that thing, right?

 

[Fran27]

Oh I fully expect it when we get our baby...

 

[filarotten]

I had my fox terrier long before my son was born. When I married my first husband he had a lab, and an Irish setter.

We kept the dogs...there were times when my parents thought I should get rid of the big dogs when Todd was born, but they never said anything about Benji. After-all, Benji was their grand dog long before they had a grandson.

 

[bubbatd]

I never had the problem.... my Goldens were my first babies.

 

[mwood322]

I guess my family never had that problem. I can't even think of an extended family member who would ever say such a thing. My parents had a big male intact shepherd when I was born, along with 5 cats, and not one family member ever mentioned dumping the dog for me. Same thing when my sister was born except it was a shepherd doberman mix instead. So it wasn't that they were small docile dogs.

--Mia

 

[smkie]

my children were born in a home that had dogs..grew up with dogs. My mother ran a licensed daycare in her home and we had dogs there. IT doens't mean that your a bad parent because you have a dog and a baby at the same time. NOt in the least. IF your dog is aggressive and you do not take the proper measures that is a totally different story. Our dogs have always been great with babies, Mary my old labrador/pointer mix is as good as the nana dog in the story PeterPan.
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[mojozen]

if/when i have kids, especially while i still have mojo, i am pretty sure i will get some pressure from my family to give up my dog. but then they will get the same answer they got when they told me to not get my dog in the first place... "leave me the *beep* alone and look after your own lives!"

 

[PFC1]

I suppose it depends a bit on your particular dog, but I find it obnoxious that others would try to but in unless you have asked their advice, or you are patently irresponsible. I would never get rid of our dog. But that's easy for me to say since my dog has already demonstrated he is gentle with infants, toddlers, small children, and even ducks and squirels. (Spiders better hide, though.)

 

[tempura tantrum]

My mom had my little brother about the same time we got Tai, my oldest Shiba boy. A few people were worried, but we really weren't. We kept a close eye on both of them, and now they get along famously. Even today, at 8 years of age, my little brother is never left unattended with one of the dogs (as we feel that is just part of being responsible), but we've never had a single incident. Kids in our family are taught the respectful way to approach and handle animals from the time they can grab a handful of fur. Dogs in our family are taught to respect children. My dogs have an understanding that toddlers and small children are unpredictable. Tai takes it all in stride, while Kimi chooses to leave the room. Either choice is fine.

The idea that the dog must be thrown out as soon as the baby is born is so archaic. It wasn't hard for us to teach both animals and children mutual respect for one another. Ignore people who don't understand, or better yet- do a fabulous job of fostering respect between child and dog, and prove them all wrong. (This is what shut up the critics surrounding my family!)

 

[pocket warmer]

The decision whether or not keep your dog now you have a child is yours,only you know your dog.Although you may be hearing a lot of advice from people it`s really not up to them.Just do what you think is best and don`t worry about what anyone else thinks.

 

[yolandachin]

Mary my old labrador/pointer mix is as good as the nana dog in the story PeterPan

There's a nana dog in Peter Pan's story? I can only remenber Hook and Wendy and an indian girl.

So mary is very close to children. Tintin my sharpei is not as good as mary, he's just too lazy and sleeping all day. Though he has a gentle charactor, and doesn't mind the kid's naughty behavior. But I still have to separate the dog from my boy most of the time. Our south balcony(which's much larger than the north) is Tintin's territory, and the baby is luckier for he owns the whole sitting room, bed rooms, bath room, kitchen and small north balcony.

 

[Julie]

There's a nana dog in Peter Pan's story? I can only remenber Hook and Wendy and an indian girl.

So mary is very close to children. Tintin my sharpei is not as good as mary, he's just too lazy and sleeping all day. Though he has a gentle charactor, and doesn't mind the kid's naughty behavior. But I still have to separate the dog from my boy most of the time. Our south balcony(which's much larger than the north) is Tintin's territory, and the baby is luckier for he owns the whole sitting room, bed rooms, bath room, kitchen and small north balcony.

Has your dog given any reason to not trust him around your son? If he has a gentle charactor and doesn't mind the kid's naughty behavior, why do you have to keep them seperated most of the time?

I have raised 3 children with 5 different dogs and some extra "foster" animals I was finding homes for. All of my children learned to respect the dogs, and the dogs never gave them a second thought. I had a chow/malamute mix and a Dane mix, with my daughter while she was young. They both died of old age. Then with my boys that are age six and three, I have two labs and a shepherd, they are 5, 2, 2. So you see my children were very young with new dogs.

But really it is you that knows if your dog is trustworthy or not. Nobody else can tell you that.

Here is a recent picture of my Charlie 2, and my son 3 years.

Oh yea, and none of our family even questioned any of the dogs......even our police k9, which was a year when we got her. They knew we would never knowingly put our children in danger.

I wish you the best, and just rely on your own instinct. You know your dog best.

 

[Snark]

my dog has already demonstrated he is gentle with infants, toddlers, small children, and even ducks and squirels. (Spiders better hide, though.)

Can I borrow your dog? Spiders freak me out... especially the big, hairy, crunchy ones...

No one in our family would even think about telling someone to get rid of their animals, not even my Dad who likes to grumble about useless animals as he pets the cat on his lap after taking the dog for a walk.

 

[yolandachin]

Infact the most important reason that Chinese people think that way is that even the doctors and newspapers are telling people that toxoplasmosis can be infectious from dogs to pregnant women and babies.

When I went to the hospital for the first examine, the doctor gave me a sheet with varies questions about being pregnant and asked me to give the answers(T/F) One of them was: You can have dogs and cats when you're pregnant, is that right? And I said false. If I didn't say that way, the doctor would let me have a long course to teach me that you can't have the dog!

Of course I don't think that's the truth, especially after I found a lot of articles about toxoplasmosis from western websites. Maybe most of Chinese people hate dogs and they always tend to mix sth. together.

I'm just wondering, when will this naughty boy stop trying to do such wake-a-sleeping-dog thing? And how do you teach your kids how to get along with dogs. especially when they're only 2 years old!

i've told him times like if you hit tintin then he might bite you! or just hit the boy to show how painful the dog may feel. maybe this can work for while, but next time he'll just try to do that again!

And now the boy has managed to open the balcony door easily! and then enters tintin's area or let him in. There's been sevral times that I suddenly hear a terrible cry from the dog on the balcony, and it turns out that my boy has done sth to the dog again! He just thinks it's so funny! What can I do?

 

[yolandachin]

and our servant hates dogs especially this ugly one(though I think he's cute), she won't let him come into the sitting room. Fortunately, Sharpeis are lazy, they love sleeping. And the South balcony is about 6 square meters.

 

[smkie]

small children can be very rough, they say they should not have a pet of their own until at least 4. Our dogs always had a place they could go to get away from the children when they wanted to. At two years of age i am sure your son is not capable of understanding what he is inflicting upon your dog. You would be best off by allowing the dog a place to be when he wants to be left alone until your son is much older.

 

[Dobiegurl]

small children can be very rough, they say they should not have a pet of their own until at least 4. Our dogs always had a place they could go to get away from the children when they wanted to. At two years of age i am sure your son is not capable of understanding what he is inflicting upon your dog. You would be best off by allowing the dog a place to be when he wants to be left alone until your son is much older.

I disagree with waiting until they are 4. I grew up with dogs. When I was born my granmother (who my mother and I lived with until recently) had a huge great dane, dobie, gsd dog (he was as big as a horse, lol) and I was fine with the dog, of course they kept an eye on me at all times because accidents do happen and bigger dogs can accidently seriously injure a little child. My grandmother had 4 dobies and a GSD and a APBT that she got me when I was 5 (that was a funny story because my grandmother had no idea waht a pit bull was and her friend bred them and gave me one and my mom gave my grandma the "death stare" once she saw ehat kind of dog it was. but she was the sweetest dog ever.) As long as you keep an eye on your child and teach them how to treat a dog you should be fine. I will always take necesary precautions with children and dogs. My dog is fine with kids but if he jumped on a little kid he could seriously hurt them, sometimes dogs gets so excited they start jumping and stuff, but I have taught Chico, when in the presence of alot of little children he is to drop to the floor and is not to move, unless I say otherwise. Basically he plays dead while the kids pet him.

 

[blue]

My dad and step mom where worried about Step Moms dog dealing with the new baby. Long story short that dog was my lil sisters best gaurdian. Sadly for the family he didnt deal well with either being neutered at 8 years old or dealing with city life after growwing up on a farm he went to live happily back on a farm.

 

[yolandachin]

but I have taught Chico, when in the presence of alot of little children he is to drop to the floor and is not to move, unless I say otherwise. Basically he plays dead while the kids pet him.

Chico is so cute!

Tintin seldom listens to me since he grew up, he just alway pretends having heard nothing. But he has a born gentle character. Even when he was a puppy, he never bit our shoes or anything except his own basket(he slept in a little fruit basket when he was young)

 

[Dobiegurl]

Chico is so cute!

Tintin seldom listens to me since he grew up, he just alway pretends having heard nothing. But he has a born gentle character. Even when he was a puppy, he never bit our shoes or anything except his own basket(he slept in a little fruit basket when he was young)

Thank you!!

Chico went through a "teenage" stage were he acted like he didn't know anything. So I went back and retrained him.

Your lucky, Chico used to attack me and bite my heels (might I add those baby teeth hurt) but overall he was a holy terror as a puppy. The first day I brought him home he had me and my best friend on the couch because everytime we got off he would attack us. He was crazy and I taught him the proper way to act.

Just keep an eye on tin-tin with your son but keep in mind the kids need to respect the dog and with that, the dog will/can live in harmony with that child.