What your dogs need:

• A Guardian to set clear rules and help them understand what those rules are.

• Exercise twice a day

• Enrichment

• Socialization

Being a good dog Guardian:

• Set your dog up for SUCCESS!!!

• Manage the environment. Use crates, gates and leashes.

• Stop saying NO and yelling. Start saying YES and reward your dogs often.

• Learn dog body language.

• Be consistent. Everyone in the home needs to follow the dog rules.

• Form good habits

• Think about what you want your dog to do instead of what not to do.

Socializing your puppy:

• Never push a scared puppy towards new things. Instead, be their supporter. Go at their comfort level.

• Make all new experiences positive.

• Meet new people.

• See and maybe meet other dogs/animals. NO dog parks. Seeing another dog is socializing. Schedule supervised puppy play with other puppies.

• New sounds like fireworks, thunderstorms, baby crying, vacuum.

• New surfaces like sand, rocks, unsteady surface, etc.

Enrichment/Exercise:

• two 20 minute cardio romps a day. (AM and PM)

• Take short walks after cardio

• Go on a dog walk with a 20 ft. longline and let them lead the walk/sniff.

• Feed out of food dispensing toys

• Training obedience, tricks, games, puzzles, etc.

• Satisfy the need to chew with puppy bones like Benebone or Nylabone

• Use licking toys like Topple/Kong to help calm and self sooth.

• Let them shred and destroy, while supervised, the appropriate things.