{"id":1135,"date":"2012-03-11T13:29:47","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T02:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2021-08-02T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T07:02:10","slug":"puppyhood-the-time-to-rescue-shelter-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/puppies\/puppyhood-the-time-to-rescue-shelter-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppyhood: The time to rescue shelter dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is part of the series in response to Dunbar’s 2012 Australian seminars. See\u00a0index<\/a>.<\/small><\/small><\/p>\n

Welcome to the first post in my Ian Dunbar seminar series. This, as well as many other posts, will be updated as I make more posts. So let’s start!<\/p>\n

Ian Dunbar<\/a> very seriously believes that puppyhood is one of the most vital periods of a puppy\u2019s life. He believes that appropriate training and socialisation<\/a> will mean that common behaviour problems can be prevented and, ultimately, the dog will not end up in a shelter facility. (In the handout, he called common and precitable behaviour problems \u201cthe #1 terminal illness for adolescent\/adult dogs.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\"Labrador<\/a>

Photo \u00a9 Ruthless Photos<\/p><\/div>\n

With puppies, training should focus on:
\n\u2022 Stopping behaviour problems from occurring<\/a>,
\n\u2022 Teaching bite inhibition<\/a>,
\n\u2022 Socialising puppies to people<\/a> and therefore reducing the likelihood of bites (from fear or aggression).<\/p>\n

In terms of behaviour problems that should be prevented in puppyhood, this includes:
\n\u2022 House soiling,
\n\u2022 Inappropriate chewing,
\n\u2022 Biting,
\n\u2022 Barking<\/a>,
\n\u2022 \u201cTemperament problems\u201d
\nThese behaviours are easily predictable, and easily preventable during puppyhood.<\/p>\n

Dunbar made some pretty firm statements. He says that puppies with insufficient socialisation suffer \u201cmassive permanent damage\u201d. He thinks that puppies are pretty much \u2018made\u2019 by 3 months of age, though socialisation does continue. It is only at 2-3 years that you can finished your puppy a finished product \u2013 you can relax and enjoy your dog and not worry about further socialisation.<\/p>\n

Making the most of puppyhood is a dual effort between breeders and puppy buyers. Breeders have duties, as do puppy buyers. One of puppy buyers duties is puppy classes<\/a>, and we’ll look at puppy classes in our next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The importance of puppyhood, according to Ian Dunbar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,254,6],"tags":[12,11,376,375,21,20,220,47,53],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-behaviour","category-dog-training-dog-behaviour","category-puppies","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-dunbar","tag-ian-dunbar","tag-puppies-2","tag-puppy","tag-seminar","tag-socialisation","tag-training"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}