WARNING for Pet Owners with Children
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D Rusak
Jedi Council Member
Yikes! I remember my sister actually doing the same thing to her cabbage patch dolls, I'm surprised the dog sat still for all that! She explained it as "drawing the parts on", ie, drawing the heart, lungs, liver, intestines, and some other weird made-up parts. Maybe she should have gone into medicine...perhaps this kid could be a surgeon when he grows up!
Annette1
Jedi
D Rusak said:
Hi D Rusak! Funny you mentioned that. When my daughters were 4 and 6 an opportunity presented itself to instruct them about how their bodies worked. It was playful and fun for them. I took food coloring and a Q-tip and drew some of their organs on their bodies, where the organs were located and I explained their function. For instance, I had them listen to each other's heart beats, then had them make a fist and explained that this was how big their heart was and shaped much the same; not like a valentine heart. Then I drew it on their bodies. I explained how food traveled through their bodies and after chewing their food and swallowing it traveled to the stomach which would break down the food even more and we drew that on. They found the game very amusing and it was a chance to educate them a bit.
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Gertrudes
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D Rusak said:
I've observed that in dogs towards children, they often seem to cooperate very well with children's "creative insights", for the lack of a better expression. My brother's dog for example, she will let my nieces do any and everything! Well, they are two warm hearted girls who love her (the dog) so the issue of trust is present. On the one hand I think she (the dog) enjoys it, on the other hand she passes this feeling of complacence of oh, well, let them play if they enjoy.
