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My precious Adopted Shorty - Dog Adoption - Why You Should Hang In There

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When a new dog joins you & your family they will require plenty of valuable time & space to settle in, the whole situation will be brand new to them & viewed through their eyes is going to be exceptionally daunting for them to cope with.

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They may not have lived in conditions like these before at all, there will be many new experiences for them to learn along the way & they will require your help for most of them. Objects & occurrences that, to you & I, are normal everyday happenings are, to your dog, unfamiliar & frightening.

The first time they encounter household appliances will probably be unnerving for them, the noisy vacuum cleaner, washing machine, tumble dryer & hairdryer, these are all very harsh sounding items. Then there are the dustbin-men, clattering around close to your home, the postman coming to your door & putting items through the letterbox, the milkman clinking bottles outside your door & even worse, people ringing your doorbell! When you begin to consider all the happenings just within a week, or even daily, you begin to see just what your dog has to adjust to & try to deal with.

If your dog bolts from the strange household appliances, such as the vacuum cleaner, the best action you can adopt is to ignore him/her. Allow your dog to disappear, if that’s what they wish to do, forcing the issue & trying to encourage your dog to accept situations in your time will only proceed to make matters a lot worse. Your dog will panic even more when it spies the vacuum on the way again, thinking that you are going to force him/her out of their hiding place to confront this noisy monster. Just let your dog go & when they’re ready they’ll more than likely creep out to investigate, your dog just needs to learn that these items are not going to hurt him/her, they’re just noisy.

A good point to try & encourage is for people to visit your house, say ‘hello’ to your dog. Not too much fuss but enough just to show your dog that they’re friendly people & it’s okay for them to enter your house. Even better if some of these guests can include children & possibly even other dogs. You then have such a wide spectrum of visitors that your dog will relate to different people outside of your house along with inside.

To use the time wisely that your dog requires to settle in, it’s best just to leave the dog to find its paws within your house. Time to establish who’s who & what’s what, exactly what all the noises are & why they occur. You’ll discover that by just leaving your dog they’ll probably settle with you a lot quicker than if you were to repeatedly fuss them.

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