Originally Posted by
killramos
Even better. Convince her friend to get a dog.
Probably also worth noting and a subject that no one wants to talk about. But not surprisingly the age group with the largest number of fatalities from dog attacks is babies under 1 year old. And many studies corroborate that family pets or dogs known to the family represent 85% plus of dog bites to children. No, not the pit bull down the street. Peoples own pets.
People massively personify their dogs and all pets, and like to refuse to accept that this outcome is possible ( go for a walk in a dog park to see how “in control” most peoples dogs are). But it definitely is more than possible and a good friend of my wifes who spend some time as an ICU paediatrician and it was one of her number one cautions. Keep the baby away from dogs, the outcomes while unlikely are tragic.
Dogs do unpredictable things, baby’s do unpredictable things to trigger dogs, and these things happen fast. Raising an infant is hard enough without having the added challenge of keeping your dog(s) away from them at all times.