Family dog warns parents about abusive babysitter....

[BaiHu]

http://www.pawnation.com/2013/09/12/dog-saves-child-from-baby-sitter-abuse/?icid=maing-grid7%7cmain5%7cdl6%7csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D374015


A loyal family dog saved a young boy from a baby sitter's physical abuse. According to Life With Dogs, the dog alerted the boy's parents that the sitter wasn't to be trusted, leading to their discovery of the abuse.

[RoyGBiv]

Let's see a cat do THAT.! ;)

[LHS]

Let's see a cat do THAT.! ;)

The cat would have joined in.

In all seriousness, though, dogs ate amazing in their ability to discern threats to their pack

[Suvorov]

A couple rules I try to live by.
1) never trust a person who does not like dogs.
2) NEVER EVER EVER, trust a person that my dog does not like.

[BaiHu]

A couple rules I try to live by.
1) never trust a person who does not like dogs.
2) NEVER EVER EVER, trust a person that my dog does not like.
3) never trust a person who makes your kid uncomfortable.

Quick anecdote that really brought a father/son bond closer. A friend of mine was going to have work done on his house and he narrowed it down to 2 contractors and he asked his son who he liked and he said one of them scared me. He chose the one that didn't scare him, b/c the contractor was going to be in his house for months. Did the kid know something? Sense something? Who knows, but I thought it was a good lesson on listening to one's kid and being sensitive to their concerns.

Sometimes we're too 'intelligent' to pick up on the non-verbal cues. Cues that children/animals have to rely on when they can't understand or articulate language as well as we adults can.

[Suvorov]

3) never trust a person who makes your kid uncomfortable.

Quick anecdote that really brought a father/son bond closer. A friend of mine was going to have work done on his house and he narrowed it down to 2 contractors and he asked his son who he liked and he said one of them scared me. He chose the one that didn't scare him, b/c the contractor was going to be in his house for months. Did the kid know something? Sense something? Who knows, but I thought it was a good lesson on listening to one's kid and being sensitive to their concerns.

Sometimes we're too 'intelligent' to pick up on the non-verbal cues. Cues that children/animals have to rely on when they can't understand or articulate language as well as we adults can.

Agreed, kids to have an ability to filter out political correctness BS. Still, my kid has failed in character assessment while my dog has not. And similar to you, it has been with contractors where my Dog's turd detector has been the most accurate.

[DBLAction454]

As a person who has spent his lifetime around dogs (family breeds Great Danes) I respect the dogs intuition more than anything about strangers in my home or new people around my family.

Plus the intimidation factor of a dog who was bread to bring down boars and could rip your throat out helps keep bozos at bay.

Heres Marco and my GF
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/09/14/u5uqy7yd.jpg

[BLR]

Lets face it. Dogs are about 10x more awesome than any person.

And the smarter the dog, the more awesome.

[Chuck Haggard]

Lets face it. Dogs are about 10x more awesome than any person.

And the smarter the dog, the more awesome.

^This^

[Wendell]

Gavin De Becker (http://gavindebecker.com/resources/book/the_gift_of_fear/) says that it is far more likely that a dog is reading the owner's own intuitive signals - and simply reflecting them back - than anything else.

FWIW

[TGS]

Gavin De Becker (http://gavindebecker.com/resources/book/the_gift_of_fear/) says that it is far more likely that a dog is reading the owner's own intuitive signals - and simply reflecting them back - than anything else.

FWIW

Hmmm.

That would explain why my dog is so awesome.

[Bigguy]

Interesting nat geo video about humans and dogs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWP-IpvlPg

[MDS]

awesome OP. I need to get a new dog asap.

[BaiHu]

Interesting nat geo video about humans and dogs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWP-IpvlPg

Saw that episode not to long ago. Tried to replicate that with my pup and it took him a while to figure out how to knock the cup over-lol! I obviously didn't set it up quite as scientifically as they did, but it was still funny to watch him get frustrated trying to figure out how to get what he could smell under there when he made the approach.

[Al T.]

1) never trust a person who does not like dogs.
2) NEVER EVER EVER, trust a person that my dog does not like.

Agree completely. Feel free to stay at my house anytime, providing you pass the sniff test.* :)



* J/K, ever get to CAE, first adult beverage is on me.

[Aray]

2 Januarys ago, my daughter had her tonsils removed and was 10 days post op. At 1130 pm the dog was scratching at her door and woke my daughter, who then realized she had blood in her mouth. She had popped an arterial bleed from the surgical site and was in emergency surgury before 0200 at Childeren's Hospital in Pittsburgh. The dog had never before scratched at her door. I credit my late pup with saving my daughter's life.

[BLR]

Dogs are simply the greatest animals on the face of the earth. Period. Full stop.

Especially GSDs, Border Collies, and Beagles. One for guarding the family, one for helping the kids with math homework, and a hunting buddy, respectively.

[LittleLebowski]

When I was growing up, my father had to put our GSD outside to spank me as the dog took it as an attack on me.

I have a GSD pup in the house now.