There's a lot of similarities, that's for damn sure.
However, since dogs are way smarter than kids, they take less time to learn things
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"What do you mean you need a babysitter? We're just putting Padfoot in the crate the whole time"
I remember reading a long time ago that raising a dog is like raising a child until the age of about three or four and the child never advances mentally beyond that age.
Which is why big dogs like dobermans, pitbulls, huskies or even labradors concern me .... it's a three year old with a knife and fangs.
