Do you take care of a puppy like he is a baby?
One of my rules in life is that we must respect animals as the beings they are. Your puppy is a "future dog". As much as you want a near-human friend, the puppy will never be that. Recognize and honoring its animal nature, and resist co-opting them into being our child.Babies are essentially helpless creatures for many months (years in fact), puppies come into this world as tiny little survivors. A three-day-old puppy will strive to assert its dominance over its siblings by pushing them away from the nipple. By pampering a puppy as if they were helpless babies -- carrying them like purses, indulging them, not scolding them -- we spoil their progress as a dog. You are probably going to nurture fear, anxiety, aggression, or dominance. We can condemn our dogs to lives of instability and stress, by making them humans. There is so much stress on humans, some can’t take it. How is a little puppy going to handle it?
You need to take the puppy out of the purse, get another puppy for him to “pack” (play) with, so he knows he is a dog. You won’t kill the puppy if his feet touch the ground.
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