Argh!!!!!

[allygrove]

i was sitting minding my own business working away quite happily.

i'll set the scene for you......

we have a black lab/collie cross who is soft as the proverbial :LMAO:<!--emo&:lol:--><!--endemo--> however this time of year she turns into a quivering nervous wreck due to the fireworks noise.
Hometime and the kids come in from school. My 5 year old decides to call on her friend and asks seeing as it's not very nice outside can they come in and play and watch some tv, yeah ok says I as long as you try and keep the noise down and whatever you do please leave the dog alone!

10 minutes later they are getting a little boisterous (well actually very boisterous) so i turn to them and ask them to please try and play a little quieter and don't torment the dog with your sweets (they both had some sweets and the friend was wafting them in front of the dog's nose while jumping up and down in front of her(the dog))

just as I say that, the friend lands smack bang on the dog's front paws, shoves the sweets into her nose, and said child screams as the dog yelps

absolute nightmare situation now, the dog has caught the friend in the face she has a very very small scratch on her cheek, I am now in panic mode so rush her home (a few doors away).
I explain what's happened to the child's mother and say how extremely sorry i am that the dog did this and can't apologise enough.
Mother freaks out and has now rushed said child to hospital whilst muttering something about putting dog to sleep as it can't do that to an innocent child.

kids are now upset cos they think their pet is going to be taken off them and killed, I'm upset cos the kids are upset and wondering just what is going to happen next

argh
ally
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[wimpie]

wow, good luck with this, dogs always getting the blaim for such things, especially from people that don't have a dog..
i got 2 big dogs myself, and with 4 kids i never forget those dogs are just animals, we tread them like family members most of the time, but can't foget 1 second they are animals that react like animals in certain situations and don't think hey, its just a kid..

good luck

[C_P]

This is simple. Put the brat to sleep and leave the poor animal alone.

[Sprocket]

your dog should be fine, no judge will tell you to have your dog put to sleep under these conditions,
the worst theng likely to happen is the loss of a friend for you and your childs friend, maybe......
don't worry to much about it, it will not come down to having your pet put down........

[M3NF]

Thats such a real bad situation. Its so very hard for kids to understand this, i am a little shocked at the mother of the other child thou, i mean most adults know dogs and what can happen, even the most perfect dog will defend or run when scared and provocked. I feel so sorry for the dog her. Like wimpie we have kids, and if this happened to us i know i sure would blame the dog in this situation.

I feel for you, and your children, its never easy, but needless to say i think the mother of the other child that was scared, should really be a touch more understanding thou.

[allygrove]

aw thanks loads for the replies guys really appreciate them

I "think" (and hope) the main problem we're going to have is with our housing office. We live in forces accommodation and I have a feeling a complaint will go in to our estate office about this so still concerned that we may have to rehome our pooch. jeez we have to get written permission to even have a hamster lol (forms nightmare LOL) (well maybe not quite a hamster but certainly dogs and cats lol.
don't get me wrong i am totally concerned for the welfare of my kids and any of their friends and do tend to keep the dog in the sitting room with me when they are around, just a case of the kids and the dog both being in the same room and wrong time wrong place and if i had known something like this was going to happen I would have put the dog in another room but thats with the benefit of hindsight isn't it.

I asked the kiddie's mum to come see me when they got home from hospital but no one has called since it happened. To echo another poster's comments I was pretty shocked when her mum said about going to hospital because it seriously didn't look bad at all altho there was a little blood, but in all honesty my 5 year old has had worse grazed knees that didn't require hospital treatment (god that sounds awful but it's not meant to be, trying to put it in context here LOL) i guess i'm just feeling a little stressed out with the whole situation at the moment.
the poor dog is on sedatives at the moment because of the fireworks and is now flaked out in her basket and to be honest, she never really bothers with the kids at the best of times, but like i said before, she was being teased with sweets. My own child has been told off and grounded tomorrow after school because i feel i have to do "something" to try and make her understand what can happen as well and she was very upset about her friend so i've had to calm her down as well.

I've been brought up with large dogs all my life (alsatians and old english sheepdogs with the odd doberman here and there) so understand what can sometimes happen when kids are around, jeez when i was about 9 i found out the hard way and was nipped by one of my gran's dogs because i was tormenting him, but i was told it was my own stupid fault (*LOL basically because it was hahaha) and i wasn't rushed off to hospital, i had some antiseptic put on the graze and a plaster stuck on top. So i too feel the mum has over reacted just a little.

Anyway, like I said at the start, thanks loads for the comments so far and if anything does happen i will let you all know

cheers
Ally
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[Jay Samford]

Hope it all goes well Ally.

[allygrove]

HI guys just thought i'd post an update for you all

panic over basically thank god

spoke to the kiddie's mum today and she decided in the end not to take her to hospital as it really wasn't worth doing that (her words not mine)
she also asked again what happened and i told her and she told the kiddie off for tormenting the dog in the first place.

so it seems all's well so far, fingers crossed it stays that way

ally
x

[wimpie]

that is good news!

[MikeC]

was just reading through and am glad to see you got your problem sorted - at first i think she over reacted a bit and kind of seen sense since then :)