{"id":4788,"date":"2019-01-23T10:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T09:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/?p=4788"},"modified":"2019-05-15T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T12:48:00","slug":"bernese-with-children-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/bernese-mountain-dog-training\/bernese-with-children-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernese mountain dog with children and animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship that is established between child and puppy follows stages of rapid development.<\/p>\n<p>When the puppy arrives at the house he will see in the child a hierarchical superior, but given that the maturation of the dog (at one year is already adult)<\/p>\n<p>If it is faster than that of a child, in a short time the relationship will become peer-to-peer and then turn over within a few months.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason, children must learn to respect it because the dog that has a long memory, may not forget and consequently not like the company of those who have not behaved with him in the best way.<\/p>\n<p>Even if <strong>the Bernese Mountain Dog has an excellent relationship with children<\/strong> (he considers them his &#8220;herd&#8221;), it is a good rule not to leave a dog and a child alone until you are sure that neither wants to make the other unpleasant spite.<\/p>\n<h2>Some rules for the children<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Never look the dog in the eye or blow on his face: he might think you want to challenge him but he knows he&#8217;s stronger;<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t bother him while he eats: he knows that a child cannot afford to take away his food;<\/li>\n<li>Do not approach silently behind the dog: he may believe that you want to ambush him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Bernese Mountain Dog is very docile and sociable with children and allows them to play almost any kind of game, also thanks to his non-aggressive nature.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the reason why children can&#8217;t be allowed to pull on their ears or &#8220;play&#8221; with their eyes and truffles; the tail is not a rope to hold on to.<\/p>\n<p>Once these little prohibitions are accepted, the little ones of the house can also jump on their back, fight, run and jump to infinity; the Bernese Mountain Dog easily recognizes the children&#8217;s games, adapting his strength to them.<\/p>\n<h2>The Bernese Mountain Dog with other animals<\/h2>\n<p>The Bernese Mountain Dog loves very much the other animals, which he considers &#8220;part of the herd&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, being by instinct very protective with who is smaller than him, he is never aggressive towards the other animals possibly present in the house (cats, hamsters, rabbits, etc..).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The relationship that is established between child and puppy follows stages of rapid development. When the puppy arrives at the house he will see in the child a hierarchical superior, but given that the maturation of the dog (at one year is already adult) If it is faster than that of a child, in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,93],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=4788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4788\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4272\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=4788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=4788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montevento.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=4788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}