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Why is my child so afraid?

My brother came over today, and he brought over his dog, he has a 260 pound English mastiff, the dog is really sweet. But for some reason my four year old daughter didn’t want to be anywhere near the dog. they have met before at my brothers house, she was afraid then also.

why is this? she adores dogs, we have a border collie and they get along and play together just fine, even on day one when I first brought the dog home. My dog and my brothers dog are identical to him. . But she is just really scared of the mastiff for some reason. of course I respect my daughter and I make sure she feels safe. But why is she like this?

why do some say a Rottweiler or a mastiff is easily able to knock over a toddler with a simple trivial tail wag, or by just walking past, or spinning around to say hello? Even so, our border collie can do the exact same thing. Why are they saying specifically these dogs when my border collie is fully capable of doing the exact same? But of course never will. .

My brothers dog has done nothing wrong. Why is she acting so scared of him? Like I said we have a border collie at home and they play together.

My daughter is so small that she has to physically look up at the border collie, when they stand side-by-side, she is eye level with the very bottom of his chin. And she can stand on her tippy toes and she will just barely be able to see eye to eye with him. and he’s just your average border collie, he weighs in at around 40 pounds and is way stronger than my daughter. and even from day one, she didn’t let the height strength and weight of the border collie get to her. So why is she so afraid of the mastiff?
itsok · 31-35, F
Do you just sit around coming up with these creepy scenarios all day?
He is a giant to her. Let her be. Stop torturing her. Be a better mother.
2goboXes · 26-30, FNew
@PoetryNEmotion but the border collie is pretty big to my daughter also. She has to look up a tad in order to look him in the eye. And the border collie is much stronger than my daughter also. Just like the English mastiff is…
novaguy2u · 70-79, M
Because the mastiff probably looks the size of a horse to her. Two Great Danes in the back of a ute rushed me as I walked through a carpark, and that scared the s**t out of me, so I can see why your daughter would be scared.
2goboXes · 26-30, FNew
@novaguy2u size? I guess I’m confused. Yes the dog is big but the border collie is pretty big to my daughter. Plus why doesn’t the dog size affect everybody else? The border collie is taller than my daughter a little bit
novaguy2u · 70-79, M
@2goboXes But how do they compare in height and mass? The other thing is that a mastiff's head is quite threatening in appearance, whereas a collie's head id more recognisably dog-like.
2goboXes · 26-30, FNew
@novaguy2u still though my daughter has to look up a tab in order to see I to die with the Colen and in size they’re a little bit bigger
Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M
She's not familiar with it, don't matter if they've met. Children in my family are scared of me and they've seen me lots of times but they don't really know me. Your daughter is the same, she doesn't know what to expect of it or how to act around it yet
seaglass · F
edit: this is a new account for a pedophilic troll that SW tolerates
2goboXes · 26-30, FNew
@seaglass but the mastiff would never do anything at all. Again she wasn’t scared of the border collie at all from day one that we got him, but why of the mastiff? Both dogs are exactly the same. Both dogs are very friendly and sweet, both dogs are super gentle, both dogs were introduced the same way and one of them she is scared of and the other she pretty much fell in love with.
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hamcheesehehe · 22-25, MNew
your brother’s dog is 220 pounds bigger than the dog she has grown accustomed to being around
Neoerectus · M
Healthy concern.

Many news articles of "sweet" monster-sized AND smaller sized dogs "suddenly" killing kids after years of no problems. They have predator instincts. Child might be picking up on something. I would encourage her to trust in hers.

Hired a long-experienced trainer for son's dog we are hosting awhile. He said people do little to train their dogs. He feels 80-90% of people should not have a dog because they have no clue what a dog really is.
exchrist · 31-35
Could be past life truma. It will fade in time.
Monaschandroff86 · 36-40, F
Maybe he’s a demon dog 😝

 
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