when you are doing schutzhund with your dog does it make them more aggressive or do they take it as a game? im new to this and interrested in it but i worried about the dog being around my soon to be new born baby.
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Especially young mouthy very active dogs, too many thing can go wrong in a nanosecond and the dog is the one who will pay the price.
Baby gates, very close supervision and lots of common sense are your friend while raising dogs and babies together.
Ditto and ditto. The baby is not to be on the floor with the dog, or left with the dog, or ever around the dog at all except when the dog is on the floor and the baby is up with you or in your arms.
Simple measures with puppies and babies would save a ton of heartache that we all see in the papers -- heartache that is all squarely the responsibility of the unthinking parent.
This is about all pups, Andrew -- SchH doesn't even enter into it for me (except in a positive way, because it represents training and control) . There is a way to handle pups and babies -- the safe way -- and the kind of sport or other training you might do doesn't change that safe way.
All JMO. I am so glad that you are thinking ahead. It means that you WILL be careful and clear-thinking all the time, knowing that they will both be children and that one of them has claws and teeth that he is just learning about.
Further, I don’t let the two interact at all. A dog lying on the ground is fine, but not shoving its nose in the baby’s lap or face and no babies crawling around when the dog is loose or no babies approaching the dog. Babies are off limits. I also don’t make dogs sit through babies or kids harassing them either, and that includes the cute seven month old chewing the puppies ear.
As to Schutzhund and kids, I don’t have a problem. The training brings out drive and control in a sane dog, not aggression. You need to watch kids with dog toys, and running around, but I just put the dog up. They (both) learn the rules and what is acceptable. For example, I allow my pup to jump on me, but not the kids.
ETA: I need to learn to type faster...
Edited by JessicaKromer (05/29/2009 02:20 PM)
Edit reason: Too slow! Connie said it all better!
Agreed with all the above posts. Also want to add, good SchH training is obedience at it's best. Should not be an issue w/a responsible dog owner/family.
thanks for all your responces. would bring different baby smells around the dog about a month before the baby come help him get use to the smells and not be so curius? i have had him around children just to see how he would act but did not let him get to close and he acted fine. would you recomend good obedience trainig before the baby comes? and would that hurt his drive if later i decided to to do SchH?
Andrew, I've been doing SchH with my Boxer for about 2 yrs now. My wife and I have a baby boy who just turned 9 mos. My dog does incredible w/him and around kids. She is never around him or kids unsupervised, that's my responsibility. SchH has been great for her (us) as far as control and socialization w/dogs and people.
A day before we brought the baby home, the hospital gave me a little hat w/his scent. I let her smell it when she was calm. The day he came home, I had him in his carrier and sat him in front of her while she was in her crate so she could sniff him. She was always calm, and that's what she's learned she's had to be if she wants to be around him.
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It means that you WILL be careful and clear-thinking all the time, knowing that they will both be children and that one of them has claws and teeth that he is just learning about.
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