My wife and I adopted a 6mo golden retriever pup about a month before we had our first <human> child. Brilliant, I realize.
That said, we've made a concerted effort to ensure that the baby and pup bond, and we've made a decent effort to document the bonding process on video. I've uploaded several videoclips to YouTube, and I've pasted a few links below. Enjoy.
Baby's first meeting with the pup (baby 1 day old):
What great videos. I just subscribed on you tube. Your baby is adorable and your golden and the interact so well together. Thank you for sharing. The videos are heart warming.
Those are very sweet. It's great that you put so much time and thought into making sure Max and baby started off on the right foot. So many people don't do anything at all!
Things work out the way they're suppose to, just think how much you would have missed out on if you hadn't adopted Max. You wouldn't be seeing how great he is with your daughter. There's nothing better IMO than Goldens and children, there's a very special love and bond between the two.
They're all so precious! That's why I love Golden Retrievers because they are so patient and gentle with children. This is making me want to have my second child!
What great videos of Max and your daughter they will be even more precious when you look back on them in years to come they are going to have a very special bond as they grow up together.
This is soooooooo very sweet. Made me melt!
Your golden is soooo super calm and gentle. Your bub is soooo cute.
They both will be best of friends as they grow together.
Those are such sweet videos. How lucky your daughter is to be growing up with a golden! My favorite was the tummy time video, where he pushes the toy toward her.
Your boy has a stellar temperment, that was really perfection between them. Whatever training you've done to make him comfortable with her has been a complete success. Actually, I would love for you to share how you worked with him.
Sorry for the 6 1/2-year delay in my response. I didn't receive an email notice that someone had responded to my initial post, so I just saw it. To answer your question, we always walked the dog and let him burn a bunch of energy before we'd put our baby with him. We knew that he'd never intentionally hurt her, but we wanted to help mitigate the risk of an accidentally-harmful encounter, such as smacking our daughter with his frantically wagging tail.
As an update for anyone who sees this: Sadly, we just lost this wonderful dog to lymphoma last week. Our daughter is now 7 1/2, and she's only known 3 days of her life without that dog. We are indeed grateful for the images that we created back then, and as we're coping with our loss, we're revisiting those images quite a bit.
So sweet and adorable. Max and Claire are both very lucky. Love how incredibly gentle he is with her. Almost makes me wish I was young enough to have another baby. Almost!
So sorry to hear about your loss. I hadn't read through before posting. I am grateful that they had those years together and the memories will last a lifetime.
What a wonderful bond they will have, both growing and learning together. The videos are priceless and thank you for sharing your two precious babes.
I have my first ever golden who's now five months old, right from the moment she saw my grandsons (3years and 18months old) she was just so gentle with them, even as an eight weeks old pup. I am amazed and delighted with how much she follows the three year old around, stays with him when he's in the garden and goes in his hut with him. She never cries with excitement but she always does when she sees them.
Just wonderful dogs aren't they and your little girl will have a true best friend to grow up with. Bless their little hearts.
Oh I'm so sorry to read that you've lost Max and so very sad for your little girl. I saw those precious videos and just posted straight away without reading through. I'm so sad for the pain you are going through as a family and as a parent I know the devastation you feel for your daughter's loss.
Max certainly was a wonderful boy and I hope one day you consider another of this beautiful breed to help your little girl heal.
God bless.
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