Most important advice for rescue dog owners
How to help rescue dogs & dogs with difficult pasts
When someone comes to me for help with their dogs one of the first things I have to help the owner identify is that in addition to teaching skills to a dog, we also need to address lifestyle. That means getting the owner to change habits that feed unwanted behaviour and creates an unhealthy life for the dogs and their humans. In some cases it also involves how the owner perceives the dog. Perception can become reality – for better or worse.
If we treat our dogs like they are “broken or damaged“ because of their history, then we doom them to be stuck in the same place for the rest of their lives.
In fact, they will be even worse off as time goes forward because things will deteriorate as the years go on.
Our dogs need us to be informed, intelligent and purposeful. We must aid them to be stronger through proper knowledge, training and guidance.
To assume that every hardship a dog encounters is because the dog is a rescue dog, or has had a rough past in life, is to doom the dog to a future of no hope. Such labels are limiting, soul-sucking, joy robbing death sentences.
Neither love nor pity will train a dog & neither will help a dog’s situation improve.
How to strengthen your dog and give it a better quality of life
Let’s all be strong for our dogs so that they can be strong in the image we create of them.
Believe in your dog’s resilience and you’ll be amazed at where you’ll travel to together.
Follow this link to a YouTube video on things rescue dogs wish you knew in order to help them.
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