People, their kids, and my dog

Let me just preface this by saying that I was a nanny for 2 years. I am a teacher. I love kids. But, I really didn't like these 3 little girls at the dog park yesterday.

First off, they were unattended. Their adult was in the vicinity, but wasn't paying attention. Well, these little girls were trying to pet every dog in the area. There were a variety of dogs there and they were all playing with each other. They seemed to want to do nothing with human babies. So, here come Cam and I. She's sniffing around, other doggies are sniffing her, she's doing her thing. Well, a little human toddler runs up to Cam, who's surrounded by other dogs (no place to go) and starts whacking her on the head, "petting her". So, I run over because Cam had the look in her eye ("get me outta here, PLEASE!!) and tried to tell the little girl that she has to "be careful". I almost made her cry and she ran to her human who gave ME a dirty look.

Frist off. IT'S A DOG PARK! People must make sure that their kids are attended and that they know not to approach unknown dogs--simply because they're "cute". "Cute" dogs can rip a kids face open. Second. I HAVE NO MONEY TO PAY UP IF YOU SUE ME BACAUSE MY DOG BIT YOUR UNATTENDED KID and I won't put my dog down because of it. It was so irritating. Cam and I had to leave the park.

Cam does need to be socialized with little kids, but it'll be on my terms in a controlled environment. I was so miffed at these people. Clearly, they're not dog owners.

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Comment by Anne on August 17, 2008 at 10:50am: I agree with you. Because our corgis are small and soo very cute everyone, especially kids, want to touch. I am amazed that parents would let their kids be in the dog park unsupervised. Most dogs in a dog park playing, would not be interested in the people. More fun to play with the other dogs. Also with the dogs playing they could get hurt, pushed over etc.
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