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Originally Posted by JSR
The woman sounds like a bit of a twonk but in her defense I too would be concerned to see a ten year old child in sole 'control' of a dog. How would you expect your child to cope with a full blown dog fight? Not something I'd want to subject any child of mine to. Your dog might be 100% but it doesn't mean other people's are, I certainly wouldn't allow a child out with any of my pack even the dogs that are perfectly behaved, it's just not worth it.
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If faced with a full on fight I would expect him to do exactly the same as me and c##p himself. If it were a case of physically restraining the dog then trust me he would be more than capable. As he is only allowed on the adjoining field anyway he is never more than 100m away and it gives him a great sense of responsibility and allows him to bond with the dog, this is after all why we got him in the first place. He has also participated in every aspect of the dogs training and the dog respnds to him as he would to me.
I fully realise that not every other dog is as predictable as mine and that is really the whole point of my post, if the dog is not reliable around other dogs/people or whatever then the owner should be aware of that and prepared to avoid or deal with such situations. In this case my dog was off the lead and under control whereas even though her dog was on the lead she still had no idea what it would do. I doubt it was the fact that there was a 10 year old in charge of the dog that upset her as she had exactly the same reaction to me, the only difference being that she soon learned she couldn't solve the problem by bullying me into taking the dog away as she had done with my son.