Quote Originally Posted by MinuteMan
I think a lot of it is how they get raised. I mean "having a dog in the house" and having a dog exclusively as a house dog are two different things. I have never had a house dog I wouldnt trust around children. Even the geekd up ones seem to know that a kid is different. The dog above will go crazy when I flirt pole her, but:

My daughter can take the hide right out of her mouth, all she has to do is ask. Good luck for me or you to get that hide from her! LOL

As you can tell, that dog is much older than my son, and I was quite worried about how she would act when he was born. Yet, she completely changed the day he came home from the hospital. she used to run around the house, would jump on you while you were on the couch. I mean she was a nut. now she tip toes around whenever the baby is out.

I wouldnt leave her ALONE with my son, but I dont leave my 2 pound poodle alone with him either. dogs will always be "dogs"...


Maybe you have had luck with your children around bulldogs, and thats just fine, but it's never a good idea. I have owned very human friendly animals that would kill a child if given the chance. Sure it may be because I have never raised my children around my dogs, but not a lot of dogmen do. I hate these kinds of threads because I always come out making the breed look like hell with my posts. When you are a dogman who consistanly competes we all know how fast dogs come and go, so Its much harder on a child when you allow them to build a personal attachemnt with an animal knowing that animal could turn out to be a cur. I know how it feels because I was that child once. I have been in the chain spots of dogs I had no business being around, but back then dogmen were a different breed of man. If you have time to train every single dog to be around humans and children then by all means do what works for you, but when you are a private kennel you do your best to keep anyone other that you around your animals. Dogs come and go when your a dogman, so for a child to decipher which chain space is okay to run into is going to be very difficult.

I hear all you guys saying that a HA animal should be shot, but HA and attacking a child are two different things. Real bulldogs have a serious prey drive, so a small human with hair, high pitched voice, moving very fast is going to be prey. Most pitbulls that get loose in the ghetto attack children over adults, doesn't always mean they are HA. Just know that the most friendly animal on your yard gets wild and retarded when it sees the hide or flirtpole, same can go for any tyoe of unusual toy you tease them with. A child running back & forth between chain spots is something they want to get their mouths on. Aside from the actual attack, your looking at scratches, cuts, etc. How many times have you walked into a chain spot to feed or change straw and almost have to crack your dog across his head for clawing you across the belly or nipping you in the face? It stings like hell, but they didn't do it on purpose. It takes a lot for me not to haul off and thump them, because I know they are just excited to see me, so imagine what they can do to a child. When I was a kid we had a dog that would hump anything at the drop of a hat. We use to get a kick out of tossing my younger brother into that dogs chainspot to see him get burled over and mounted. We would laugh our butts off, but he would be crying because that "child friendly dog" was digging his claws into his side and pounding for glory.

IMO children should not be around bulldogs, certain things set off these animals. Every real dogman know this. It's too bad I didn't get a chance to post on the human agression thread, I would have pissed a lot of you off. I won't shoot a bulldog that is human aggressive, as long as it's a bulldog. We will leave it at that.