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Introducing Children to a Family Pet |
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by Matt2  (March 2006) (rank 189th) |
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After my wife, Jill, and I were married for a few months we decided to get a dog. We went to a few shelters with the intent to adopt an adult dog, but none of the dogs seemed to be very interested in either of us. As we were walking
around
one facility Jill noticed a little gray ball of fur that was quite a rambunctious little puppy. He and some other small adult dogs were allowed to roam around the front part of the facility and were not put in cages during the day. He was chasing some of the other dogs around and was a favorite of the staff. They told us a little bit about his history and how he was with the other animals. He was brought in with his mother, a Chow Chow, and his sister. His sister was adopted out the day before and his mother was being adopted the following day. He really took to my wife and we brought him home that day, poop on the back and all.
Because we knew that we wanted to have children one day we decided to be proactive and started to "tease" him the way a child would. We pulled on his ears and tail, put our hands in his mouth, bothered him while he was eating, and generally bugged him the way a child might. Since he was raised this way from the beginning he has never had any problems with aggressiveness towards people at all, specifically, our children, their cousins, and friends. We had great success with this technique.
