Empowered Puppy
Welcome to theEmpower Your Puppy Podcast hosted by Jeanette Forrey of 4E Kennels! Join Jeanette as she educates owners on how to continue empowering their puppies to ensure they become balanced and fulfilled dogs. Honoring puppies in their placement and respecting the client’s needs makes for a magical match and keeps dogs in their home for the entirety of their life. Unfortunately, humans don't always communicate with dogs correctly which causes a very unhappy relationship and dogs that are very misunderstood. Jeanette is also on a mission to train breeders and educate the public on how and where to buy so that puppy mills and backyard breeders are defunded. Our dogs deserve more.
Empowered Puppy
Ep 13: How to Greet a Dog
Greeting a dog is something that should be done on their terms, not yours. It may be hard to resist the urge to run up to a cute dog you see in the park and pat it on the head or give it a big hug and a kiss, but this is not a respectful way to greet a dog. In fact, it can be threatening and cause the dog a lot of distress. In today’s episode, we cover what you absolutely should not do when meeting a dog for the first time, and how you should approach them instead. Your homework for today is to watch how two new dogs greet each other; then you’ll be able to see in practice the lessons that we share with you today!
Key Points from This Episode:
- Why you should not greet a new dog by touching its face or head.
- How to show respect to a dog’s owner.
- Reasons that kissing a dog as soon as you meet them is not a good idea.
- Why squealing around a new dog can cause distress.
- A common response from dogs when you stare at them.
- Your homework for today: watch how two new dogs greet each other.
- How dogs feel when a stranger hugs them.
- The way to greet a dog respectfully.
- Why you should never greet a service dog.
- The importance of putting in boundaries with other people when your dog is in training.
- Dealing with the dynamics of a combination of trained and untrained dogs in your household.
- Answers to some listener questions.
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