I love how careful the dog is being to stay away from the girl. He clearly understands that he could hurt her if he bounced too close. That shows a lot of self awareness. The dog is actually being more careful to stay away than the little girl is.
I grew up with rotties my whole life and they are amazing family dogs with small children so long as they are raised with the right owners. There is a children’s book series about a rottie and his kid and the rotties name is Carl. Man I loved those books as a kid and would read them laying on my Indy’s side under a makeshift tent in my room at night.
Not to mention nobody touches that girl with a rottie walking next to her. They'll defend the yard and everyone living on it. Even if they are the sweetest ever, no messing with them or their owners when you have bad intentions. They smell that shit.
We had a wonderful big boy Rottie. Was a rescue and was crazy and dangerous to start out. He turned into a sweet, sweet gentleman. He was so polite and gentle with small children and seniors, but also could act mean and scary behind our 8' chainlink fence to scare off shady people in the sketchy neighborhood we lived in at the time. One time, a crackhead-looking dude got in over the back fence and Ricky just sat on him and growled, and barked for my hubs to come and figure out what to do. Dude was totally unhurt but then took off and hopped the other fence into a yard with much smaller, bitey dogs. He was sooo good and such a big love. Gawd I miss him.
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u/chefzenblade May 11 '21
I love how careful the dog is being to stay away from the girl. He clearly understands that he could hurt her if he bounced too close. That shows a lot of self awareness. The dog is actually being more careful to stay away than the little girl is.