Michael "Dog3" wrote:

> Good advice Janet and good comparison. I assume most parents wouldn't
> dream of allowing their offspring the license to pick up someone else's
> child, say at the supermarket or shopping mall. As I said before, any dog
> has the potential to bite.

As I mentioned in a previous post, my gentle Lab bite almost right
through my hand, but it was an exceptional circumstance. He was just a
gentle dog that I felt that I had to intervene to help him out when the
other dog attacked him. I was busy watching the German Shepherd that I
was afraid was going to break his leg.

We all know that dogs are animals and that we have to be careful with
them. Cats, dogs, gerbils, hamsters.... they all bite when they are afraid.