Small dogs are not always safer. They tend to be more active, more accident prone, less trained. As a child, I never had small dogs. I had a German Shepperd and a rottweiler… They were protective of me, and made sure that no one dangerous was around me. One of them even protected my pet bunny. He would go and stand over it when someone entered the backyard if it was there.

My friend had a small dog though. It would run around, run over us, cut us with it’s little claws.If we picked it up it would nip at us. Small dogs don’t like other small things like babies, the jealousy factor. Big dogs seem to take it as a new member, a child, something it needs to learn about and protect. They are also able to take the abuse of a child. If a small child hits a massive dogs back, it will not do much. The dog won’t take it like a strike because it’s a baby, it doesn’t hit that hard. But if a child hit a small dog, that dog’s going to react by running or biting.

Now, it does depend on what type of small dog. Some dogs are naturally small. Pug dogs for instance, I love them. They are hyper as puppies, like all dogs are, but when they get older, though still rather small, they slow down a bit, kind of lazy, but still friendly and like to be around people.

It’s sometimes fault of a child and not the size of a dog… But children are naturally curious… They will punch, they will grab, they might even bite a dog if they’re young enough, and depending on the dog’s tolerance to a young child’s actions, will result in how the dog reacts.

Some small dogs are good pets, but I’d rather have my child near aBigprotective dog then a small dog too crazy to realize it’s running and snapping at my child.