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#256142 - 11/04/09 09:15 AM
Re: Help with the Puppy and our 2 year old
[Re: Lynne Barrows]
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Tracy Collins
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My two cents: the pup and the toddler need to be "trained" separately for now. It's clear that allowing two babies together (one with very sharp teeth) and hoping to control both isn't working out. How could it? The pup simply has not EARNED as much freedom as you are permitting.
Pup and baby should only interact when you have total control--for the safety of both of them. Clearly, your child's safety is the most important--but I also worry about the safety of a pup that is put in a position where he might seriously injure someone. That's a good way to get euthanized (or beaten, or banished to a yard pen, etc.) I'm not saying you would do those things...but it happens.
With intelligent management and training (and you do seem like a very intelligent person), this problem will get better with time. Puppies do settle down, they stop teething eventually, and with training they catch on to the rules of a family. I have no experience with human toddlers, but I assume they also grow. ;^)
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#256252 - 11/05/09 06:51 PM
Re: Help with the Puppy and our 2 year old
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Danity Siebenale
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No, the 2 year old is just the baby of the family. Sorry, he'll always be my baby. 
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#256253 - 11/05/09 06:54 PM
Re: Help with the Puppy and our 2 year old
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Danity Siebenale
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Thanks, everyone! 
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