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Same thing at dog parks. Folks want to bring all the dogs together and bad things can happen. According to this report/story it happened real quick. Probably something as simple as visiting dog grabbing resident dog’s toy with the little one right there. Animal’s can instinctively get tense and defensive when other animals enter their space or territory. I know you’re aware most dogs are super great with kids but if another dog enters the scene unpredictable things can happen.

Out of all the years at the dog parks (no leash areas) I've only seen one fight. And not much of a fight - more of a squabble. I can see problems bringing one dog into another dog's territory - no matter how friendly they have been before. Like you said - the new dog picks up a favorite toy, etc. So sad for this little girl.

My mom got bit in the face by a “friendly” German Shepherd when she was a kid. The dog's owner figured she might have pet it where a bullet was still lodged in him. (The dog was put down).

The local doctor stitched her up the best he could on the back table of the country store where it happened. She spent a few weeks with a big bandage on her face and salve. Amazingly her scars healed pretty well. Although she never liked dogs after that! I was surprised she took so well to our big black dog when she visited a few years ago.

I would not even let *both* my Dobes love up a kid at the same time.

They adore children but what if one feels the other is getting more love and suddenly acts out?

Just like that, in an instant of unpredictable, unusual behavior, a little kid gets hurt.

Not a chance.

I would never take any of my dogs to “dog parks”, either.

Two of them would be easy victims for aggressive dogs and two of them are dog aggressive.

Not for a single, solitary second do I *ever* forget what ~any~ dog is capable of.

An injured child is not worth anything *I* might think is ‘fun’.

Case in point, the sweetest, most gentle, passive, submissive dog I’ve ever had was the one who saved me from my ex, the night he tried to kill me.

Shocked me to the core, she did.
I never would have imagined that she had it in her to ‘get mad’, ever.
[but thank God she did or I’d be dead]

No one, anywhere, can ever predict _100% of the time_ what any dog might do and where kids are concerned, nothing less than 101% will do, for me.

*This* skinny little thing is the dog who "went Cujo" and jumped on my ex's back as he was strangling me.

Would you ever imagine that being even remotely possible?

Especially when she lived in terror of him?