Your puppy can learn to play with other dogs in a supervised environment (such as with your friend's lab) without having to be sent away to do it. Anything could happen. Such as in the video where the puppy is pestering the Great Dane. What if that was your boxer pup and the Great Dane decided to take things into his own hands and snap back?
I own a dog pack and when my puppy was growing up I allowed a certain amount of correcting from my adult dogs, but always stepped in and enforced the boundaries with the puppy and let my adult dogs know they could live in peace without being endlessly pestered by an obnoxious puppy. It is not fair to the adult or the pup.
It is especially not fair for an adult dog to be pestered by a STRANGE puppy that is not a part of his "pack".
I say, make play dates with friends and their well-mannered dogs - don't send your puppy away where you have no control. Your puppy needs to learn to trust YOU as his leader, not that he will be left on his own in the middle of a big strange dog pack.
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I trust the guy 100% that runs the place. I have been to his house for a couple of beers while all 17 dogs are in the front yard and staying there(without a fence). That's pretty impressive to me!!
These are other peoples dogs Shawn? Do you think thats being responsible? No fence? I don't find that impressive that they stayed there. It was dumb luck. Pretty unprofessional, not someone I would trust with my dog.
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That was at his house with his own dogs. His place of buisness obviously is closed in.
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my dog Bart sure didn't have a need to be social, he had a need to rip other dogs a new one...HE was happiest, and more balanced when i stopped letting him interact with other dogs.
You know what?.......I'm a really nice person.......so this comes hard, but that statement is a very idiotic one. It's pretty selfish to condition your dog like that. TO BOOT, Bart owns your ass that's why he acts out like that!!!!!!!!!!!!! He may love you...but he doesn't respect your leadership......OBVIOUSLY.!!! What he is saying when he tries to attack another dog in your presence is "Mommy can't take care of this, SO I WILL!!"
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Your puppy can learn to play with other dogs in a supervised environment (such as with your friend's lab) without having to be sent away to do it. Anything could happen. Such as in the video where the puppy is pestering the Great Dane. What if that was your boxer pup and the Great Dane decided to take things into his own hands and snap back?
I own a dog pack and when my puppy was growing up I allowed a certain amount of correcting from my adult dogs, but always stepped in and enforced the boundaries with the puppy and let my adult dogs know they could live in peace without being endlessly pestered by an obnoxious puppy. It is not fair to the adult or the pup.
It is especially not fair for an adult dog to be pestered by a STRANGE puppy that is not a part of his "pack".
I say, make play dates with friends and their well-mannered dogs - don't send your puppy away where you have no control. Your puppy needs to learn to trust YOU as his leader, not that he will be left on his own in the middle of a big strange dog pack.
Angela,
She already went. It was nothing but a positive experience. I take her back every other week and when we pull in her tail is wagging a 1000X's a minute(which tells me it was a really positive experience). I love fullfilling her NATURAL INSTINCT to socialize with other dogs. I am actually thinking about adopting a pitbul mix they rehabilitated there. Both of them loved playing with eachother and for me...........it was great!!!! Maybe Gabbie isn't Shutzhund material, but she does love life!!
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