Baby 👶 or dog 🐶?

Should you treat your dog like a baby? There are obviously different specifies, but then every child has different emotional and physical needs! This is often misunderstood and used in a poor light, so I’m saying it here:

𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐃𝐎𝐆 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐘!

• Plan before they arrive

• Teach then using kind methods

• Think of them as struggling and needing help rather than ‘bad behavior’

• Not leave them to cry it out

• Make sure there get an ‘education’

• Get them the medical treatment they need

• Give then activities so they aren’t bored.

• Stop setting them up to fail, ie ‘baby proof’ your house

• Understand they have individual needs and meet them

• Give them comfort when they’re scared/anxious

Stop treating them like they’re behaving badly because you haven’t taught them what to actually do

Don’t buy a puppy on a whim

Don’t expect them to just ‘fit in’

Don’t force them into situations they aren’t comfortable in (domestic dogs have a 7ft flight distance as opposed to our 2ft).

Stop making them work for everything they have - plenty in life is free!