"Phyrie" wrote in
:

If you've "seen my kids do just as annoying things to Ruby" why
would you let them do it? You're watching them. You can stop
them.

No kidding. I spent last weekend at my mom's. My niece and nephew
came over, and they mobbed Harriet. That was fine, because Harriet
*loves* being mobbed by kids. As the night wore on, my niece got
over-tired and started doing things like sitting on the dog. I
reminded her to be gentle, and that was that. If she hadn't
listened, I would have put the dog in another room, where she would
have been safe from 5yo kids.

I'm not a parent, but I *do* have a responsibility to ensure that
kids play nicely with my dog. And because I do so, I can be pretty
damned sure that *my* dog (not to mention the kids who play with her)
will not become one of those unfortunate statistics we all read
about. All her interactions with kids are overwhelmingly positive,
so the chance of her ever having an opportunity to get fed up and
bite are just about zero.

Also, Ted, way to totally ignore that the OP was dealing with a dog
with serious, possibly irrepairable emotional damage.

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