Here is some toughts that I have and I hope that you help spreading the words about the importance of education of dogs and owners for this new year to come!
Soon many many puppies will come to their new home this Christmas and the year to come. And many many of them will stand no chance of success. Many many of them will be rehomed, surrendered to shelters or abandoned before turning 2 years old.
All because they did not get the tools for fitting in this world and to fit into the life their family is living. They will slowly develop “problem” behaviours which 95% could have been predicted and avoided with puppy training. Yet most people don’t do puppy classes or being proactive in their training. Because their puppy is “not yet” bad.
Then when their puppy becomes an adolescent dog they will see problems come and now is no longer easy training now it’s problems solving which is much harder, more time consuming and most people will not have the right knowledge to fix it.
There is so many amazing rescue organisations making big difference on rescuing dogs.
But there is one thing we all (organisations, professional and dog owners) need to talk more about and that is how to PREVENT this. We need to talk about the importance of early education of puppys and their owners.
A big chunk of the dogs are being abandoned is by families that could not have them no more/ did not want to have them no more because the dog is having issues some bigger som smaller that complicates the life for their owner.
We need to talk about the root of the problem because the SYMPTOMS are the abandoned dogs the ROOT is lack of knowledge and commitment with people that get the dogs. We must talk more about puppy education because that’s where the answer lays for the family’s that get dogs.
Nobody wants a dogs that destroy your house, pees inside, is aggressive towards people, is aggressive towards dogs, reactive, can’t be home alone or scared. It is hard to live with a dog like that and not that wonderful life many picture it would be having a dog. Of course no one is perfect not us and not the dogs but these are the most common problem behaviours and they could ALL be prevented with education of the person and the dog.
WE MUST TALK MORE ABOUT THIS! The puppies have right to get the tools to be come the dog you wanted