I don't think it is, as long as it's not just attention attention and no discipline or excersize. According to Cesar Millan, for a dog to be balance their time needs to be spent with 1/2 excersize, 1/4 affection, and 1/4 discipline. I'm not sure if that's a bunch of crap or not. lol

But IMO I don't think it's bad at all. My dogs a lot of attention!