Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:04:02 -0400
From: carole henry
Subject: good behavior for both.
It seems that a number of people in Lowes have been bothered by the behavior of both the human child and the dog companion.
I use to teach adult education dog obedience classes for a decade. The first night was always without their dog in order to show them how to gain simple control before bringing the dog into a group class. I COULD ALWAYS tell who would be successful if they had children with them. The successful ones had well behaved children.
The ones with uncontrolled children were unable to successfully control their dogs. With the exception of one woman who thanked me for giving her the backbone to gain control over both her kids and dog. Makes sense…..
Dogs……When out in public places, dogs should be at their owners side on a loose lead, minding their own business. The owners in control do not have to worry about their dog lifting the leg or growling or getting out of control or pulling the owner all over the place. In teaching for forty years, I have also come across people who use their dogs to act out their anger with others. IE letting their dog act aggressively toward other dogs or people. They, the owners, act passively and do not try to stop their dogs aggressive behavior and are indeed a danger to other people and their animals.
Then you have the owners who have dogs but do not spend the time to train and figure out what their dogs need emotionally to be a well behaved member of the family. Those are the ones whose kids run wild in the stores and the parents go on their merry way ignoring their child’s behavior simply because they are unable to control them in the first place.
There is nothing wrong with wanting/having your dog as a companion and with you all the time. In all things you have opposites. The ones who have pets as companions and those who have animals that live alone in pens or tied out 24/7.
However going into public places with your companion demands a well controlled pet who is not a danger to humans or a liability to products….IE lifting of the leg. It is not the children or pets, it is the adults in control who are the problem.
Carole