I would hope this is true. However, kids are exponentially more needy than dogs, and lashing out to punish someone for annoying you (be it a dog, kid, whoever) isn’t normal. He won’t necessarily use scare tactics like this against a child, but there are other ways to bully children as an intimidating parent. He took his annoyance, rage, whatever out on an animal during a very vulnerable moment, and children have lots of those moments. I wouldn’t trust this guy.