The joy of
bringing your new puppy or rescue dog home.
You watch, entranced, as they explore their new home.
The rigours of house training don’t seem too hard at the start, you just want to be with your new pet anyway.
Those gorgeous cuddles, burying your face in their fur and feeling that warm squiggly body pressing up against you.
But that honeymoon period doesn’t last and the reality of house training, dealing with biting and chewing, and having to take your dog out in all weathers, every day, soon hits home.
Your children promised to help – and they did, but only for the first few days. Now it’s all down to you. Everyone else is too busy carrying on with their lives. It’s you that has to fit in looking after the dog as well as doing everything else you’ve always done too.
Given how busy we all are, it’s not surprising that arranging training classes for your new pooch sometimes takes a back seat.
But training
your dog is really important. If you get things right from the very start you
can prevent the angst and frustration you might otherwise struggle with, such
as:
– pulling on lead,
– not coming back when called,
– jumping all over visitors,
– begging at the table,
– barking at things,
– scavenging food when out and about, and
– bothering other people and dogs.
It is so much easier to prevent problems than to have to deal with them once
they start.
A trained dog is a joy.
You can take them anywhere and everywhere, safe in the knowledge that your dog will behave nicely.
You can meet up with friends and their dogs knowing that your pooch will behave.
Your dog can have the freedom to run around off lead, because you know he’ll come back when you call and he’ll ignore other dogs.
Your visitors will be safe from being knocked over by your boisterous hound.
So please, train your dog.
It will save you loads of time, worry, frustration and expense in the long run.
See you soon
Carol