| A good lesson or animal cruelty? | | I have a good friend who lives on a farm. She's one of the funniest people I know and since we both have children the same ages we have a lot in common.
She recently told me that her 3 year old son has been having problems with a rooster on the farm. The rooster would attack him when he ever he went outside. The rooster didn't bother the other children, just him. This was obviously very frightening to her son and I'm sure that it bother her and her husband as well.
My friend's husband ended up making a really impressive wooden toy sword for their son. They told him that he could use it to defend himself against the attacks of the rooster.
The story goes that the next time they were outside the rooster spied Josiah and started racing towards him. Josiah started to cry out, when his mother yelled, "Your sword, Josie!" Josiah swung his sword and whacked the rooster a good one. The rooster ran off and hasn't bothered Josiah since.
I had mixed feelings about the story when she first told me. I'm not sure that hitting the animal is the best lesson to be taught, but at the same time it could have caused Josiah some real harm... wondering what everyone else thinks? | |
| | Kid vs Dog | | We have had this German Shepherd puppy now for 5 1/2 weeks. She is a really good dog even though she still puppy bites and takes my shoes. But now I wonder if we need to find another home for her.When my 5 y/o has her chew rope he plays tug of war with the dog. Sometimes when he would get the rope from her, he would swing it out of her way, and in my mind and probably the dogs, he was teasing her. I tell him not to do that, but he won't stop.. Then last night I heard the dog growling. I watched wondering if this was a play growl, (our dalmatian growled all the time when playing tug of war), but as I watched, when my son had the rope in his hand, it looked like the dog went to bite him, but I couldn't tell if it was just going to puppy bite or bite out of trying to hurt my son.Then tonight and at this moment, my son is in the corner because he has this wooden sword he plays with. He knows that if he is playing with this sword, the dog tries to get it and I told him to either play somewhere else or just tell the dog no. Well I am sitting here and I hear this sound that didn't sound good and when I looked, just over my left shoulder, my son... | |
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