sacaver Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 My wife and I just had our first child. He's going on 4 months. We will never 100% trust our sibe, Ripley, around him, but we're also not fearful that she'd do anything to him. Any thoughts from the group on things to expect? Ripley has been the self-proclaimed center of the Universe for the past 5 years. She's slowly adapting to her new role in the family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siberian_wolf Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Firstly, congrats on your new baby! A good thing with Huskies is they love everyone so I wouldnt say she would be lickely to become aggressive towards your baby. Im guessing Ripley is like most Huskies and love to play! As she is alot stronger than your baby, she may play a little with him. But, saying that, she may understand that your baby is only very delicate and she will be very gentle with him and may even try to mother him. It may be wise to look out for symptoms of her having a phanton pregnancy. Ive not heard of it being likely when a baby is introduced but my friend had a baby and then her dog had a few phantom pregnancies whilst the baby was young. Here is a link about phantom pregnancies: http://www.lowchensaustralia.com/health/falsepreg.htm Thats all I can think of for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunc Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 I have 3 grand children and I have in the past shouted at family for letting then in the same room as the dogs alone, now Louise 11 year old she is fine and stays here sometimes and I dont mind if she plays with the dogs on her own or any time but Mat 6 year old and Jake only 2 months not a chance kids are aways with us at all times. Now don't get me wrong my dogs have never hurt anyone and are soft as s**t but how sorry or irresponsible would I be if anything did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 I agree with duncan, I would never let a younger child be alone with any animal, no matter how nice it was. You never know what could happen and will never forgive yourself. A few years ago, Louise was at her friends house who had an akita, softest thing ever, louise was playing with her and she jumped to new mouth open, just playing and the dog caught her tooth on louises forehead, she was ok but was a bit warey of her after that. Personally, since i got my dogs as pups i have tugged their tales and ears and fur just so that if ever anyone did do this to them then it wouldn't come as much of a shock and they would be less likely to retaliate. I haven't done it hard don't get me wrong, i could never hurt them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austinville Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 I have a new grandson (3 months old) and while I watch my boy around him, I don't fear he will harm him. Still, I would never leave the two of them together alone for any reason. Bo respects the space surrounding the grandson (we require that he give us that space) UNLESS he is invited in. And he loves that invitation! Congratulations BTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sacaver Posted February 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 Thanks all for the responses. We'd never leave the baby alone with Ripley until he's old enough to deal with her on his own. I was just curious as to how the breed overall deals with kiddos. Some sites I've read have huskies as a great family dog, while others raise flags with the breed. With the way that Ripley herds us whenever the baby is crying (she literally will push us to wherever the baby is when he starts to cry), I'm guessing that she's going to be fine. Either that or it's just her way to tell us to make the little thing we brought home with us be quiet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bec Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 It's not that I don't trust my dogs with kids, I don't trust the kids either. I would never leave a dog and a child together unsupervised, no matter how much I trust either of them. A Sibe killed a baby here in Australia last year, any breed or dog is capable of inflicting damage to a child, it is all about appropriate socialisation and supervision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siberian_wolf Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 It's not that I don't trust my dogs with kids, I don't trust the kids either. I would never leave a dog and a child together unsupervised, no matter how much I trust either of them. A Sibe killed a baby here in Australia last year, any breed or dog is capable of inflicting damage to a child, it is all about appropriate socialisation and supervision. thats very true. Kids are alway pulling tails and bothering them! My 2 younger brothers are 13 and 15 and they still anoy my boys sometimes when they come over!!!! My step sister came over to my house with her child, Sharna, who's 5 when Marley and Bandit were still small and she was forever carrying them and pulling and pushing them around, luckily they were fine and never went to bite her or anything, they just kept on wanting to play with her but we were always there supervising (and joining in with the play) just to make sure. What I did, with all of them when they were little was tried to imitate a baby playing with them (i.e. pulling the around, etc) to help them get used to it but I would still keep an eye of them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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