More about Puppies....

Invisible Puppy

 

Try this trick as soon as you get your puppy home.

Everybody must pretend that puppy is totally invisible, not there, doesn't exist, unless and until puppy's backside is on the floor.

 

As soon as puppy sits, you say "hello, little puppy" and bend to give him a fuss.   If this causes his backside to lift off the floor (and I promise it will) he becomes invisible again and you turn away until he decides sits again.

 

Be very, very consistent and see how long it takes for puppy to realize that

the best way to get fuss and attention and affection from you and the and recognition is to sit in front of you.

 

If you do this properly, puppy will learn very quickly.  Puppy will soon believe that the best way to get attention from you is to sit in front of you and not jump up at you.

 

The best bit of this is that puppy will also believe that this is the best way to get attention from other people and you'll have a dog that doesn't mug the visitors when they enter your house or even people you meet over the park, but will sit in front of them to say hello.

 

 

 

Your Dog’s Age

 

It is now considered that the  first year of a dog’s life is worth about 14 of ours.  The second year is worth about 7 and then it depends on the size of the dog.  The bigger the dog, the more years per year.  Great Danes and dogs of a similar size will stay at 7 year per year.  Little dogs, like Yorkshire Terrorists, sorry Terriers, will only age about 3 human years per year.  You can use this to work out a rough human equivalent age for your dog