Is there a problem when your dog is more important than your new born baby?
shawnLacey asked:
I was raised with dogs and had the cat of my life, Samantha. If my beloved dog took my baby, I do not know whether or not I would keep that dog. The child is still in a Critical Care Unit. I cannot buy into the lie that the dog thought it was a toy. The parents were negligent in allowing the dog of that size free access in the baby’s room. Many mothers keep their newborns in cribs close to their beds or in their bedrooms to minimize SIDS. I am a male, and I know that you should not put your new infants upstairs or downstairs away from you. This is where I draw the line!!! These parents were careless and CPS needs to do an investigation to help them become more aware of the safety of small children. Yes, it is ALWAYS A SECOND TIME. Who knows what the dog was thinking? Even older children can become jealous and do stupid things. These are not necessarily bad parents just stupid ones. Being that there is no “how To” manual in the uterus, a mother has to swing it by natural instincts. Based on the father’s response on ABC’s Good Morning America, they could benefit from Awareness Training. There are millions of animal lovers in the USA, but we also love our infants.
Ariel
I was raised with dogs and had the cat of my life, Samantha. If my beloved dog took my baby, I do not know whether or not I would keep that dog. The child is still in a Critical Care Unit. I cannot buy into the lie that the dog thought it was a toy. The parents were negligent in allowing the dog of that size free access in the baby’s room. Many mothers keep their newborns in cribs close to their beds or in their bedrooms to minimize SIDS. I am a male, and I know that you should not put your new infants upstairs or downstairs away from you. This is where I draw the line!!! These parents were careless and CPS needs to do an investigation to help them become more aware of the safety of small children. Yes, it is ALWAYS A SECOND TIME. Who knows what the dog was thinking? Even older children can become jealous and do stupid things. These are not necessarily bad parents just stupid ones. Being that there is no “how To” manual in the uterus, a mother has to swing it by natural instincts. Based on the father’s response on ABC’s Good Morning America, they could benefit from Awareness Training. There are millions of animal lovers in the USA, but we also love our infants.
Ariel
July 21st, 2010 at 3:04 am
Huong
all i know is if i had a dog and it harmed my child it would be out the door. i had a dog for 15 years and loved him to pieces but if he was still around and put my child in the critical unit i don’t think i could keep him. more than likely he would go to my parents. but my dog was a pekingese so he really couldn’t have pulled my child out of a crib.
July 22nd, 2010 at 3:16 am
Eva
I would be more apt to believe that the dog was trying to protect the baby and not aware of it’s own strength. Yeah, parents should be made aware, but guess what? There will always be people who trust their animals. You trust your family dog or you wouldn’t have them. So there will always be people who sit there and think, “it will never happen to me” and it most cases it won’t. But there is a chance of something happening, but……..again, until you experience it yourself? More of life is learn from your experiences not something you read about.
July 24th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Maurita
My son is not a newborn now but I have our second one on the way. If any animal hurt my children, that animal would be out. I love our dog and cat, but either of them make one wrong move, they are gone. I know they don’t know the difference, they are animals…this is why we watch them carefully, we never leave the dog/cat alone with our son. Actually we never leave our son alone unless he is in his room asleep of course.
July 24th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Lettie
First off if you’ve seen the story and a picture of the dog, you can tell that it is part Wolf. A native american dog as they call it is usually 75% or more Wolf. These dogs are known to take babies out of cribs not intentionally to hurt them, but to care for them like a member of their pack. (We looked into getting one before we had kids and I did my research thouroughly and decided against it)
I have always had dogs growing up and it depends on the dog, but you always have to be aware of your animals around your babies. If they wanted to lay the baby down in it’s crib, fine, but shut the door and turn the baby monitor on. Don’t let the dogs in there while it is alone. I have a 120 pound Shepherd mix, that is great with my kids, but I never left him alone with them when they were babies, just because you never know. Now that they are older he runs and plays with them, but still under my supervision.