AM I too mean?

suzukigirl · 04-26-2007, 09:46 AM

I am really over protective with my puppy. I rarely let him play with kids because the kids usually end up hurting him and making him cry. I mean he is only 15 weeks and still smaller than most kids. I have seen them step on him and stomp on him on purpose.

Anyways, I bring my dog to work with me everyday. I baby gate him in my office and he has a bed and toys, food and water and me of course.

This guy that works in the show room walks up to my office and takes my dog to the showroom. Our showroom is closed for construction, there are nails and gasoline smell and all sorts of smells.

I thought he was just going to pet him for a bit and bring him back. 5 minutes go bye and I go looking for my dog. He is in the showroom ripping up paper WTH?

I take him back to my office. I hope I am not being too mean and over protective.

Betty · 04-26-2007, 09:51 AM

No, I think you're being safe and protecting your dog from harm. And you're also protecting those kids from getting bitten should your dog get scared because he's being mistreated.

And I sure wouldn't want my dog stepping on a nail or eating one.

suzukigirl · 04-26-2007, 09:59 AM

thanks for the reply it makes me feel a bit better knowning I am not being too mean LOL

yeah it gets me angry just thinking about how he just came and took my dog. Its not like he asked or anything!

tirluc · 04-26-2007, 10:09 AM

being as the guy wouldn't have even gotten the dog out of my sight for a second, i wouldn't say you were being mean......i hope you gave him hell for his stupidity......and gall....

iwantmypup · 04-26-2007, 10:19 AM

Don't worry , your not being too mean . Kids are crazy and they sometimes rough house...and I sure would not my little puppy pplaying with them as the kick and stomp .

The office guy is a jerk!! How dare he take your dog to a dangerous place..

If it was me I think I would slap him .

Don't worry...your just being a good puppy momma

Ali

Amaya-Mazie-Marley · 04-26-2007, 11:31 AM

I think you are being a normal puppy owner! Nobody wants to see their dog stomped on or put in a dangerous place!

emma · 04-26-2007, 11:46 AM

Helo
Seems you are very caring
Nothing matters if you behave so ! It shows how attentive you are to your pet
All the best

Chloef_2799 · 04-26-2007, 12:33 PM

I don't think you are being over protective in the least. I am not much of a nice person when it comes to little children playing rough with my dogs and if they were ever to step on my dog on purpose oh they would be getting an earful for sure, and so would their parents.
And as for the guy leaving him in a room full of gasoline vapours and nails and the like (all very dangerous for a new puppy) I would be tearing a strip or two...or three or four out of him if he took my brand new puppy and left him in a room where god knows what bad things could happen to him. I personally commend you for not yelling at him because I would have.
When I first got Chloe (after her sister and brother had gone to their new homes) I brought her with me to my friends house for about ten minutes (I had to get some things and use the bathroom). While I was in the bathroom she took Chloe and put her in the playpen with her nine month old daughter and the baby grabbed her ear and wouldn't let go...being a baby she didn't know any better. And then my friend had the nerve to call me rude when I yelled at her for putting a puppy in an enclosed area with a young baby who doesn't know how to treat a puppy. I could hear Chloe crying from the bathroom. And what really bothers me is still to this day she tells me and everyone who will listen that I obsess over my dogs and am way to over-protective.

onyxdaily · 04-26-2007, 12:52 PM

I agree with all the responses. I don't think you're being mean at all. You obviously love your dog and don't want anything to happen to him. I am the same way with my dogs. If anyone comes to visit us with children, I am like a hawk watching them and my dogs, and I swoop in immediately and stop any inappropriate behavior, like ear pulling and things like that.
As for the guy at your work, I am just amazed at the ignorance of some people that do things like that.

iwantmypup · 04-26-2007, 12:54 PM

Man Chloef_2799 I would be very mad at your friend . Ugh! People sometimes!

And suzukigirl I think your great for not tearing that guy into pieces ..

Ali

suzukigirl · 04-26-2007, 01:00 PM

Well thanks all I do feel better.

Chloef_2799 I know how you feel. A co worker of mines brough his daughter to work and she was trying to kick and stomp burger. The mom thought it was funny untill I pushed the lil girl away (not hard, just enough to separate them) and grabbed burger and put him in my office.

People make me angry sometimes!

Chloef_2799 · 04-26-2007, 01:04 PM

we definitely aren't as close as we used to be thats for sure. I was also a bit upset because if Chloe was a bigger dog and she was more rambunctious what if she would have bitten the baby in a playful way or rough housed a bit to rough with the baby and hurt her? Thats not safe at all for either the baby or the puppy.
I am not a very patient person and I enjoy the finer things in life so little children unfortunately don't mix well with me most times. I would never be rude to them or anything, I enjoy them of course but I just don't have the patience to be chasing them all over and correcting them constantly nut now give me a puppy and I would be happy to....thats why I think I am strange. But then again my friends bring their kids to my place and let them run wild and I have to be chasing them and herding them and correcting them and sometimes even disciplining them which is why I prefer to go to their house instead of have them at mine. I hate dis-order and mess so when I have to be constantly picking things up and putting things away and re-kid proofing my house for their kids I get upset more easily.

Amaya-Mazie-Marley · 04-26-2007, 01:13 PM

I also have to watch toddlers and younger children with my two girls. They both love children, but Mazie isn't fond of them tugging on her and pulling her ears and such, she can only take so much. She loves kids, sometimes I think more than adults. If we are at the animal hospital, and she sees a kid, she won't settle down until we visit the kid, but I of course have to check with the parents first. She's so sweet with kids, I think the people that had her before had kids.

iwantmypup · 04-26-2007, 01:26 PM

Really? Um my puppy does not like kids....well let me rewrite that

My puppy doesnt like toddlers... but babies I'm sure she loves..

If were walking and she sees some 3-6 year olds her hair stands up....but If she sees a baby in a stoller of course I don't let her go..but I think she doesnt know what that "thing" is ... so shes not so scared

ali