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Originally Posted by Michael Romanos
but I do watch carefully kids aged under five because every so often you might get a kid who instead of patting, stroking, scratching, cuddling, rubbing, kissing etc will smack or point their finger towards his eyes.
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This is what happened during the incident with the 3-year-old girl. She was nuts, I wasn't allowing her to pet him, and her mother just stood there 20 feet away, while this little girl smacked and poked at Shippo's face and CHASED him when he tried to get away! Finally, as a last resort after telling her to get away from us (loud enough that her mother could hear but to no avail) and even heading towards home, I started to pick him up and remove us both from the situation.
The little girl jumped in before I could and cornered him between my legs, smacked him a few more times, and he nipped her fingers out of sheer desparation. She ran to her mom and said the puppy bit her, and her mom simply went "good maybe now you'll leave it alone (Even though she shouldn't have been near us in the first place without her mother's permission)."
After that, I tried to get him around as many STABLE children as possible to make sure the horrible experience wasn't imprinted on him forever... >@_@<