r/TikTokCringe • u/GhostofTinky • Aug 25 '26
Discussion This is a disaster waiting to happen.
The dog isn’t allowed to be around a toddler because he growls at her. I don’t get it. A family dog is supposed to get along with the whole family. Why are the parents concerned about why the dog “doesn’t like her”? What about the child’s safety?
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u/ValdisHound Aug 25 '26
I believe that all dog owners should have in-depth knowledge of their dog's breed purpose and how to train them fully with that in mind. It would save people a lot of heartache and pain, as well as cut back on the number of 'vicious' small dogs.
No, your Yorkie is not supposed to be an untrained, yappy mess. They're bred for hunting rats with tenacity, and require plenty of exercise and training. Of course golden doodles are high strung and prone to social issues, they're a mix of two hunting breeds with extreme demand for exercise and training to handle it(I won't get into the semantics of how no ethical breeder would sell a pure, well-bred poodle or golden to make high-priced mutts, that's a whole secondary issue of health and behavior defects). Bulldogs are assumed to be family dogs when the core purpose they were bred for was bull baiting, where they'd bite onto a bull's nose and hold on until it drowned in it's own blood. That's why their faces are like that, so the blood would run off their snout without drowning them, too.
Any dog can be dangerous without proper understanding of their breed behavior and socialization, unfortunately. I still remember hearing almost a decade ago about a woman who was mauled to death by dachaunds(bred for hunting badgers in their dens), which many people think are just sweet lap dogs.