Okay. You’ve fallen in love with a ball of fur who is busily licking your face and making you laugh. With the furball, you’ve brought home a collar, food and water dishes, a leash – maybe a bed. Now what?
You’ve taken on this big responsibility of not only accepting a new member into your family, but will need to make sure your dog is not a menace to the neighborhood, doesn’t eat your husband’s shoes, knows to go outside to pee, doesn’t bite your best friend…
Norah Halstead’s book, ‘Furball: The well mannered pup will bring up all these questions and ones you haven’t thought of yet, giving you some broad guidelines on how to get started on a firm foundation for all of you. She covers housebreaking, socialization, where your furbaby should sleep, what you should teach him or her, and more. There is also a good section on other sources to get further help.
Nice beginning book that will get you started in pupdom.
After reading this book, I’m making a promise to myself to include further leash training with my dog, Amber, who minds us when we are all by ourselves at home, but looks at us as if she has never seen us before and has suddenly gone completely deaf when someone comes to the house.
If we need to take Amber to the vet, she is 95 pounds of eager dogdum who can become fixated on getting where she wants to go regardless of whether she is on a leash or not. I need to work on that.
Also, the suggestion that you invite someone to your home (preferably a good, patient friend) who will sit there patiently watching you try to get your dog to do the stuff he or she does quite readily usually, but suddenly is only interested in visiting with your friend, is a good one for us.
Good luck!
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