Nothing like doggies watching over their "babies": HAPPY MONDAY!

[hlthe2b]

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[calimary]

1. Awwwwwwwwwwwww...

[RobinA]

2. I Dunno...

Not to be a killjoy, but this would make me nervous. Those kids are pretty little and those dogs are pretty big.

[hlthe2b]

3. Parents introduce their babies under careful eye. No one is suggesting they do so without

watching. Certainly, someone who does not really know dogs (nor truly knows the one they have) should do so without someone more experienced advising them. I know dogs and can identify potential problem issues or suspect body language better than I can with many humans. That isn't a given for all people, especially those who were not raised with dogs.

That said, cross-species protection and nurturing is now hard-wired into dogs--especially females after so many millennia living side by side with humans and their livestock and other animals. It is now the exception rather than the rule to have dogs who do not instinctively "take to" the young of their humans--assuming there is a loving relationship between them and not a prior history of maltreatment.

[Raven]

4. When Lola was a baby, my two dogs were her

guardians. They are two of the sweetest dogs in the world but I never left them alone with her and always watched carefully. Babies, especially newborns, have erratic motions that can spook even the sweetest, calmest dogs. BTW, that last picture just melts my heart!

[hlthe2b]

5. Me too. How old is Lola now?

[Raven]

6. She just turned 6. She adores the dogs!

[red dog 1]

7. Kick for cuteness!

I especially love the last one.

[TomSlick]

8. When our son was an infant, our pound rescue was convinced he was her baby.

She sat besides his crib watching him sleep. When the baby started to stir, she would come looking for a an adult. That son now has an infant of his own with two dogs that watch him while he sleeps.

Babies need a Nana.

[Ilsa]

9. The baby on the blue blanket

Looks like he's about to fall on the floor.