good read.. but the
"Not sure if I would choose the tug of war game. Why did you choose that as the means of interaction?"
question rings true to me. blogger's answer doesn't seem very satisfactory & someone else wrote :
I believe Woodhouse also wrote that tug was fine as long as the dog and person both knew it was a game.
we ARE dealing with dogs here right? They're s'pose to know it's a game and not an exercise in dominance?
yikes!!! it'd be SO easy for that dobie to overpower that 2.5yo boy, and just wreck his life forever...
as another concerned commenter wrote:
Personally, I neither play tug with my dogs nor trust them with children unitiated to dogs, nevermind combine the two
and I tend to agree with him instead, i don't play tug w/ me doggies. when someone attempts to play tug, they're taught to drop it, or else they get a good kick in the behind. (no, really, j/k!)