Consejos para el primer día del perro en casa

Foreign. Let's differentiate between two types of situations. With the simplest thing, which would be bringing a dog into a home that won't share its life with any other dogs within that group. The main idea is, regardless of where, make the dog's departure from the home as normal as possible. To avoid tension, avoid emotions, and make everything as normal as possible.

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To maintain the dog's emotional balance as neutral as possible. Considering that the dog will all transportation will be by car. That's where the first problem may arise. Well, we get into the car in. Well, depends on how you can even use a little reinforcement to get the dog to get in. Important. Here comes the first big rule. We would say, okay, that the dog gets to know the immediate environment where it is going to live, where it is going to be temporarily.

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That immediate environment is the street, the street itself, the neighborhood, let's say, okay, it is very important to take an initial walk. I would say it could last about 25, 30 minutes. A quality walk, as we will see, is a walk with a good leash distance, with good harness material, etc. Etc. Where the dog has access to smell absolutely everything it needs in its immediate surroundings on that street to get to know it. Right? To get familiar with it. What do I mean by what it needs? I mean containers, I mean corners, pee, cars, anything the dog approaches to smell. No one knows better than the dog what it needs to smell. Male. We would start by selecting what can and cannot hurt on the first day. Right. We would be greatly conditioning the stay of this dog in this neighborhood and in this house. Therefore, it is about accompanying the dog on this first day without simply allowing it to accompany it on that inspection of the area. Right. Perhaps meeting other dogs. It is very possible that it will avoid these dogs at first because it is perhaps more focused on the main thing, which is its own environment. He will have time to get used to the dogs he sees after this time, okay? 25 or 30 minutes. Nothing abrupt, but little by little in a subtle way, then we will go home. Let's remember that this first walk is not going to be very long in distance, but rather it will be long in time, short in distance, in the closest area.

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That will allow us to return at any time from here. After the walk, we are going to enter the house. Entering the house has two main basic conditions. The first is to allow access to all areas of the house.

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And the second would be not to interfere with his exploration of the house, to allow the dog to come in, go out and get to know his own pace.

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What is ideal? We open the house. We continue with our normal life. We continue making dinner. We make dinner. If we were going to shower, we shower, okay? Let's not try to change our routine because that forced change of routine makes us feel uncomfortable. And we are going to transmit a certain tension to the dog that will not help him adapt. Therefore, we live our lives as if there were no dog, okay? It may be a little complicated to get the idea, but in the end it is about transmitting normality, okay? The dog will probably remain a little rooted at first, perhaps a little hidden. But what he will quickly look for is where I am. He will look where he came in, which is where he could leave. Look, when a dog enters a place, the first thing he does is look for where he can leave the place. He enters through the door. I turn around, the exit is over there. Well, from now on, I have focused. I am going to see what is around here. I am going to see what is around here. I am going to see what places interest me, what places do not interest me, Where I am comfortable, where I am not comfortable, okay? It is very, very possible, okay? Very, very likely that P will appear, okay? Having a pee in the same stressful situation can generate P due to its own need to leave a little pain, okay? This has to be accepted, right? No, obviously it should not be punished. It should not be scolded, which is not important, okay? Neither should pee be scolded nor should not be rewarded for not peeing. It is simply a normal situation. One more consequence of an entry, a place, a small tension that you can chain with a small pee. It is not a problem. The dog may take a few hours, it may take a few days to find comfort in the apartment, okay? It is simply a matter of having that patience. And he will also decide what his corner will be, okay? Apart from getting to know the apartment, he will get to know his corner and he will decide for himself where he feels most comfortable. If at home, there are rules that the dog cannot go on the sofa, cannot go on the bed, or cannot enter certain rooms. Well, a house and some rules, and in the end they must be followed. It's about living together, but we'll explain that later. Let's not leave a door closed from the start. Because his curiosity to know what's there will keep him on tenterhooks for much longer, right? If he sees it, then you tell him, look, it's better if we don't go in here. And that's the end of the problem.

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You know everything, and from what you know, you'll move around either everywhere, or everywhere except the couch, or everything except my bed, or everything except X, okay? Little by little, that's the idea. And in no time, if everything has gone well and we allow this dog to adapt, in about a month you'll have a dog that's totally adapted to the new environment, the new life, okay? And then it's simply a matter of respecting schedules, outings and social development and offering him company that he needs and asks for. And that's it. You now have a dog that's integrated into your new life. The other case, we already have one dog, we have two dogs, we have three dogs. It's important to first assess the state of these dogs, okay? If these dogs are constantly nervous, if living with these dogs is really complicated, it is worth working on their excitement level first and getting them down to a point where they are more capable of accepting changes. A dog that is stressed or upset will not take change as well. So the introduction of a new dog will be uncomfortable, to say the least, and the adaptation will take quite a long time. But with a month's work with these dogs, if they do have this problem of over excitement, let's say you can put them in a state of tranquility or normality sufficient to accept any change. Having seen this, whether or not it has been worked on, depending on the characteristics of each dog in the house, let's do the introduction. The difference is that these dogs have to get to know each other. They have to be introduced. They have to be introduced in some way more than introducing them. They have to be introduced. We have to facilitate this introduction. We are not going to introduce them, okay? We won't force anything, but we will offer and facilitate their getting to know each other, okay? It will be very uncomfortable inside the house, okay? Because it is an unfamiliar space with only one exit, which is closed. If the situation becomes complicated, the dog will have nowhere to go and will be quite unwilling to deal with this. So it will be more concerned with what to do if things fail than with what to do to talk to them properly. So the ideal thing is to take this introduction to the street, okay? So it involves, if possible, two people, considering that there is already a dog living in the house. So one person goes down with this dog and another person accompanies the new dog. If the existing dog in the house, the area allows it and it is possible, and the dog does not have any problems with it, is ideal for it to be loose because it allows the dog to move completely freely, okay? And it can communicate socially as it really needs to. And the other dog will receive much better all the information that the dog in the house is giving it, okay? If not, then the same. A long leash, a harness, and we will allow encounters. What happens on the street? On the street, the new dog encounters an open space. An open space. And in the least bad case, a long leash gives him many options to handle the situation, to avoid an encounter, to keep a distance, etc. Etc. He will be able to handle himself according to his needs.

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Once introduced, we are going to do this walk that we did with the dog that went to a house where there was no other dog. Maybe this walk will be accompanied by the new dog, okay? Also, this dog already knows the neighborhood. But anyway, it will serve on the one hand for the new dog to get to know the environment and at the same time for this social walk to really help them create this bond.

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This introduction is really very effective. From here, the entrance is together, okay? If possible, once at the gate, the leashes are off and the ascent is at their own pace. It is possible that one goes up, the other stays a little lower, thinks about it a little before going up, and will end up going up. The worst thing that can happen is that you have the door open in 15 minutes on the first day. Well, it's quite manageable, okay? Once you get home, you already have the master of ceremonies. You don't have to do anything. The other dog will be in charge of facilitating the adaptation, okay? At first it may follow you. There will be a lot of communication there, a lot of communication, a lot of calming signals between them. And in the end, what has to happen will happen. The other dog will seek its comfort, will seek its adaptation, and once they have adapted, little by little, they will get to know each other. But if we don't allow that initial adaptation, we are not going to let them get to know each other well. And we are already laying the foundation for that relationship, okay? Problems that are going to make coexistence annoying, uncomfortable at best and conflictive at worst. So it's simply a question of whether we want to adapt a dog or we want to temporarily foster a dog, which is a fantastic idea. On the other hand, don't be afraid and simply assess what you have at home. If you have dogs at home and you think they're nervous, do some preliminary work, Get a professional to do some very simple preliminary work, and then simply offer them a chance to get to know the neighborhood and adapt at their own pace. No one knows better than the dog what pace they need to adapt to a place, just as no one knows better than us what we need to get to the point we want to get to. Therefore, the summary would perhaps be to accompany the dog in the adaptation process. Well, I hope you enjoyed these short, explanatory videos, that they helped you understand your dog better and that you participate in a much closer coexistence with your pet, if possible. If you are interested in knowing more about your dog and learning more about how to live with them, Visit my blog, ordiera.blogspot.com where you will find articles, even courses and training proposals that you may find interesting. If you want advice on animal welfare and protection, you should not enter the website fata. Org, where you will find all the necessary information.