butterflyinthewell:

saint-ambrosef:

libertarirynn:

There are a lot of absolute idiots in the comments saying things like “a good dog will never hurt a baby” and “the child is never to blame if the dog attacks” and “special snowflakes call everything abuse”

Listen here you fucktards: dogs. Are not. Fucking. People. They don’t operate by human logic. They don’t follow human moral codes. It has nothing to do with it being a “good dog“ or not. If you were getting hit and pulled on and punched and scratched constantly, you just might react. A dog can’t speak up and say “hey please stop that you’re hurting me“. What he can do is move, lunge, bite, etc. These actions might intentionally or unintentionally harm your child. Use your fucking head and don’t let your kid beat up on your dog no matter how many times he’s “taken it” before; you never know when he might snap. Don’t teach your kids it’s OK to treat animals like punching bags and they’ll never react. That’s immensely unfair to both the animal and the child. You could have a hurt or dead child and a euthanized dog because you were fucking dumbass who thought the dogs were just there to be treated like toys.

Same goes for cats and any other pet. Teach your child how to properly treat animals or don’t have any fucking animals.

look if a person is constantly hurting me i’m gonna snap back at them. don’t expect animals not to do the same.

When I was a kid there was this old cat I used to pick up and carry, but I guess I was doing it wrong by picking the cat up by the stomach area. The cat would meow and my mom kept telling me, “Put that cat down, you’re hurting him!”

Well one day my mom saw me pick the cat up by hugging its tummy area again and it was the day the cat finally had enough. It hissed at me and scratched the hell out of my arm. I screamed that the cat was mean, and my mom was like “No, YOU were mean! The cat told you and you didn’t listen.”

The meowing was the cat saying “Owww, you’re hurting me!” in cat-ese.

Animals have body language and signals. They give warnings. We’re the silly humans who don’t ‘speak’ their language and miss them, then we blame the animals when they defend themselves.

My mom didn’t get mad at the cat for scratching me. She got mad at me for being a doofus.

And guess what? I have never picked a cat up by hugging it around the belly since!