Mother, 3-4 year-old kid and dog (looked like maybe a boxer) walking down the street. The street she chose to walk down was a 50 mph, two-lane "highway"....main artery to get from one part of town to another....but speed limit is 50mph.
So going for a nice pleasant walk along the highway....(and there are residential streets to use one block down)...that alone was dumb enough. But the 3-4 year-old was holding the dog leash......but mom wasn't hanging onto the kid at all. Dog is 5 times the size of kid.
a) no matter how well mannered your dog is, it could see something and bolt into traffic and take kid with it.
b) you don't walk along any street, in my opinion, (especially a high traffic highway), without one hand on your kid, because he/she might see something and decide to bolt into traffic.
People are stupid.
So going for a nice pleasant walk along the highway....(and there are residential streets to use one block down)...that alone was dumb enough. But the 3-4 year-old was holding the dog leash......but mom wasn't hanging onto the kid at all. Dog is 5 times the size of kid.
a) no matter how well mannered your dog is, it could see something and bolt into traffic and take kid with it.
b) you don't walk along any street, in my opinion, (especially a high traffic highway), without one hand on your kid, because he/she might see something and decide to bolt into traffic.
People are stupid.